{"id":766,"date":"2013-09-09T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T02:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:27:34","slug":"review-the-book-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/review-the-book-of-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Book of Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24780\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1317791689m\/24780.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Book of Three\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24780\">The Book of Three<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8924\">Lloyd Alexander<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/251143052\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I can\u2019t recall exactly the first time I read <i>The Book of Three<\/i>, but what a fortuitous day that was. It was a school library, I think, me just wandering the shelves. The title was intriguing. And the book was so good, it instilled in me a joy for browsing books and picking up random ones. I won\u2019t say its better or worse than anything else, but I was too young for Tolkien back then, and Harry Potter was still 20 years away. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been binge reading, lately, interspersing more random library finds with stuff from my past. I thought I\u2019d give <i>The Chronicles of Prydain<\/i> another go. Rereading it brought back no memories, because I was too immersed, back then, to have noticed anything else. Taran\u2019s swashbuckling adventures are fun, exciting, with lessons to be learned.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it\u2019s a bit thin in places, but then, it\u2019s a kid\u2019s book. This is important: kids don\u2019t need to justify things with a lot of exposition and explanation., Just get on with it. And I think that\u2019s why adults read young adult fiction now and again. Not because want to be kids again; we just want to get on with it. Swing a sword, fight evil, resist triumph without a lot of pseudo-philosophical moralizing.<\/p>\n<p>A fun, quick read. First in a series of five.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/251143052\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander My rating: 4 of 5 stars I can\u2019t recall exactly the first time I read The Book of Three, but what a fortuitous day that was. It was a school library, I think, me just wandering the shelves. The title was intriguing. And the book was so good, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/review-the-book-of-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Book of Three&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}