{"id":628,"date":"2008-09-12T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=628"},"modified":"2024-01-30T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:24:41","slug":"pratchett_23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/pratchett_23\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (23) <cite>Carpe Jugulum<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say about <strong>Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <cite>Carpe Jugulum<\/cite><\/strong>, which I re-read after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/pratchett_18.php\"><cite>Maskerade<\/cite><\/a>. My <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/reviews\/cj.html\">previous review<\/a> was a little generous, as time has made me less tolerant of the similarity in plot to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/10\/pratchett_terry_4.php\"><cite>Lords and Ladies<\/cite><\/a>. Other than that, all I have to add is that I&#8217;d be curious to know more about Oats, and I still want to know if Pratchett has an end in mind for Granny (and Carrot, and Vimes, but particularly Granny).<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and a comment about the physical volume, not the book; recent US releases of Pratchett&#8217;s novels have been notable for their bad proofreading, but this ten-year-old British edition suggests that Pratchett just has bad luck with copyeditors, or something: in several places, &#8220;baby&#8221; is rendered &#8220;babby&#8221; (if that&#8217;s dialect, it&#8217;s extremely inconsistent), and one of the witches gets called the wrong name at least twice.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say about Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Carpe Jugulum, which I re-read after Maskerade. My previous review was a little generous, as time has made me less tolerant of the similarity in plot to Lords and Ladies. Other than that, all I have to add is that I&#8217;d be curious to know more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/pratchett_23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (23) <cite>Carpe Jugulum<\/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-628","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\/628","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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}