{"id":1977,"date":"2004-04-21T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T20:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/04\/21\/1977.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:03","slug":"book-report-the-phoenix-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/04\/21\/book-report-the-phoenix-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Phoenix Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having already read Steven Brust&#8217;s <I>The Phoenix Guards<\/I> (New York: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/tor.html\">Tor<\/a> 1991) once without falling for it Your Humble Blogger isn&#8217;t quite sure how it came to be in his hands upon leaving the library. I suppose, knowing that many people (Gentle Readers, some of &#8217;em) adore the book, I decided that I would have been charmed rather than annoyed had I been in the mood to be charmed rather than annoyed. Upon re-reading it, it&#8217;s, well, I was neither charmed nor annoyed. Of course, the circumstances weren&#8217;t great this time around either.\n<p>The book is a pastiche, I suppose, of Dumas. That is, it&#8217;s written as if it had been badly translated from the French, there are duels every fifteen minutes, and there&#8217;s a good deal of ponderous humour involving cross-talk and things the Author knows but the characters don&#8217;t. At one point, I noticed that a paragraph consisted of two sentences and contained seventeen commas. I imagine it was a lot of fun to write.\n<p>And fun to read, I hear. Put it down to YHB&#8217;s anglophilia.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already read Steven Brust\u2019s The Phoenix Guards (New York: Tor 1991) once without falling for it Your Humble Blogger isn\u2019t quite sure how it came to be in his hands upon leaving the library. I suppose, knowing that many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16998,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}