{"id":144,"date":"2004-03-02T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T13:54:56","slug":"as-berry-and-i-were-saying-by-dornford-yates-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/03\/as-berry-and-i-were-saying-by-dornford-yates-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>As Berry and I Were Saying<\/i> by Dornford Yates, 1952."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help reading it all the way through because I am a completist, but, man, this is a terrible book. This is the dregs of Yates&#8217; writing I mentioned earlier. All his faults are on parade with nary a redeeming quality. The inside look at the British courts of the 20s could possibly be considered one, but it&#8217;s buttered with self-flattery, and Yates&#8217; vision seems so clouded with sentiment and bigotry that I can&#8217;t even trust it&#8217;s an accurate representation of what he witnessed. Two particularly annoying aspects: A). Berry, Daphne, and Jill lapping up Boy&#8217;s (extravagantly dull) stories as though they&#8217;ve never heard them before (these people have supposedly lived in each other&#8217;s pockets since childhood). B) Frequent references to incidents too shocking to relate. Geez, tell or don&#8217;t tell, but don&#8217;t try to have it both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help reading it all the way through because I am a completist, but, man, this is a terrible book. This is the dregs of Yates&#8217; writing I mentioned earlier. All his faults are on parade with nary a redeeming quality. The inside look at the British courts of the 20s could possibly be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}