{"id":749,"date":"2013-04-14T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T12:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=749"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:35:46","slug":"pratchett_13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/04\/pratchett_13-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (13-15) <cite>Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lumping together some more Discworld re-reads that already have their own entries. <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Small Gods<\/cite><\/strong>: I still love it. It&#8217;s true that Brutha is inconsistently stupid and that the tone wobbles, but man, I love it. (But it is very weird that Brutha is not brown. He is explicitly pink on at least one occasion.) <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Lords and Ladies<\/cite><\/strong>: it took me a weirdly long time to get into this re-read, perhaps because I last read it relatively recently? But I just kept inching my up way to the invasion a few page-equivalents at a time. The <cite>Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/cite> stuff has never done much for me, and I found the Margart scenes just excruciating this time through, because I kept wanting to yell at her WHY ARE YOU BEING STUPID. But once the invasion comes, they each get such great scenes. <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Men at Arms<\/cite><\/strong>: many good things, but there is the fundamental problem that <a href=\"http:\/\/skygiants.dreamwidth.org\/281933.html\">Becca identifies in a post full of spoilers<\/a>, and it still overdoes the gun thing (so much so that I almost wonder if it doesn&#8217;t undercut its own satire). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lumping together some more Discworld re-reads that already have their own entries. Small Gods: I still love it. It&#8217;s true that Brutha is inconsistently stupid and that the tone wobbles, but man, I love it. (But it is very weird that Brutha is not brown. He is explicitly pink on at least one occasion.) Lords &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/04\/pratchett_13-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (13-15) <cite>Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms<\/cite> (re-read)&#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":[48,64,15],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-749","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\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}