{"id":47,"date":"2007-09-20T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/56"},"modified":"2020-09-12T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:30:46","slug":"quick-book-review-debt-of-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2007\/09\/quick-book-review-debt-of-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Book Review: Debt of Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Debt-of-Bones_W0QQprZ30871432QQtgZinfo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.ebayimg.com\/03\/c\/000\/77\/37\/3d39_7.JPG\" alt=\"Image File\"><\/a><br \/>\n_by Terry Goodkind_<\/p>\n<p>An enjoyable read, even if I finished it in one day. More like the _old_ Terry Goodkind, and not the haughty, _full-of-himself-after-just-having-read-Atlas-Shrugged_ Terry Goodkind.<\/p>\n<p>One issue, though &#8212; for one thing, the book is richly illustrated with very nice drawings every so often dealing with the events happening on those pages. Now, if you know anything about the &#8220;Midlands&#8221; in Terry Goodkind&#8217;s world of the _Sword of Truth_, you know that it was a land where a woman&#8217;s status in society (her class) was apparent by how long she could grow her hair &#8212; the higher in class society you were, the longer you could grow your hair.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist of the story, Abby, remarks in the first few pages (after seeing the Mother Confessor with her waist-length golden hair) about how _her_ hair &#8220;covered her ears but no more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then a few pages later, you see an illustration showing Abby walking into the Wizard&#8217;s Keep on her errand&#8230; *with her long hair reaching past her shoulders*.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;is it that bloody hard to coordinate some sort of communication between a writer and an artist? Did anyone even look at these pictures (however nicely drawn they were) before they went to print?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>_by Terry Goodkind_ An enjoyable read, even if I finished it in one day. More like the _old_ Terry Goodkind, and not the haughty, _full-of-himself-after-just-having-read-Atlas-Shrugged_ Terry Goodkind. One issue, though &#8212; for one thing, the book is richly illustrated with very nice drawings every so often dealing with the events happening on those pages. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}