{"id":394,"date":"2006-02-26T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=394"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:41:48","slug":"pratchett_pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/pratchett_pyramids\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (07) <cite>Pyramids<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried listening to <strong>Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <cite>Pyramids<\/cite><\/strong> as an audiobook, but Nigel Planer&#8217;s narration just wasn&#8217;t working for me (all the characters sounded stupid). But since I&#8217;d started it, I picked it up in print just to remind myself how it ended.<\/p>\n<p>This is a book with a bit of an identity crisis, or maybe a very extended prologue. It opens with Teppic taking his Assassins&#8217; Guild examination and recalling his school days (very British), and then moves, somewhat abruptly, to Djelibeybi, a very old Egypt-like country with far, far too many pyramids. These aren&#8217;t very well integrated; more, the second part is the core of the plot, and it feels a bit slight to carry the entire book. However, the novel has its memorable moments, making it a minor but readable Discworld novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried listening to Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Pyramids as an audiobook, but Nigel Planer&#8217;s narration just wasn&#8217;t working for me (all the characters sounded stupid). But since I&#8217;d started it, I picked it up in print just to remind myself how it ended. This is a book with a bit of an identity crisis, or maybe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/pratchett_pyramids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (07) <cite>Pyramids<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,64,15],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-discworld","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}