{"id":414,"date":"2006-04-18T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=414"},"modified":"2024-04-07T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:18:59","slug":"pratchett_smallgods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/04\/pratchett_smallgods\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (13) <cite>Small Gods<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><cite>Small Gods<\/cite><\/strong> is one of my favorite books in Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld series. It&#8217;s a humanist examination of religion (I don&#8217;t <em>think<\/em> that&#8217;s necessarily a contradiction in terms), set in a theocracy where the Great God Om woke up one day to find himself a tortoise with only one believer, an innocent novice named Brutha. (He&#8217;d intended to be a bull.) It&#8217;s been recorded as an unabridged audiobook, but I didn&#8217;t like the way the narrator, Nigel Planer, voiced Brutha; it was a bit too &#8220;Duh&#8221; for my tastes. I was therefore very pleased to find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/smallgods\/pip\/archive\/\">recent radio adaptation<\/a> with an excellent Brutha (voiced by Carl Prekopp).<\/p>\n<p>The radio adaptation is streamlined pretty heavily, removing at least three subplots that I can think of off the top of my head (the History Monks, the lion, and Urn&#8217;s last device). I didn&#8217;t object to that. However, in spots I did feel that it suffered in comparison to the book, by ever-so-slightly rushing the events that were kept. Probably this wouldn&#8217;t bother someone who doesn&#8217;t know the book as well as I do, and the excellent voice actors mostly made up for it. I recommend this adaptation, though I recommend the book more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Gods is one of my favorite books in Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld series. It&#8217;s a humanist examination of religion (I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessarily a contradiction in terms), set in a theocracy where the Great God Om woke up one day to find himself a tortoise with only one believer, an innocent novice named Brutha. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/04\/pratchett_smallgods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (13) <cite>Small Gods<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/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":[64,111,15],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","category-radio-plays","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}