{"id":750,"date":"2013-04-20T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=750"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:35:38","slug":"pratchett_39-snuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/04\/pratchett_39-snuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (39) <cite>Snuff<\/cite> (audiobook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now roughly at the point in the Discworld re-read where I paused for the most recent Discworld book, <strong><cite>Snuff<\/cite><\/strong>. I&#8217;d wanted to save this for the end, but I was on a panel at Arisia this January on Discworld at 30 (years) and so thought I should really skip ahead. I listened to about half of this as an audiobook (read by the ever-excellent Stephen Briggs) because I didn&#8217;t have time to read it, and then skimmed the last half. <\/p>\n<p>This is a bad book. I switched to skimming when I hit my last straw of things making me furious, to keep myself from actually grabbing my iPod and flinging it at the car&#8217;s windshield. And I had a very long list of things that were bad: internally inconsistent, out of character, offensive, cheap. But then I realized that under any other circumstances I would characterize the book&#8217;s fundamental sin as laziness of thought, and then I remembered what the actual circumstances were, and then I was just sad. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t read this book. I wish I hadn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now roughly at the point in the Discworld re-read where I paused for the most recent Discworld book, Snuff. I&#8217;d wanted to save this for the end, but I was on a panel at Arisia this January on Discworld at 30 (years) and so thought I should really skip ahead. I listened to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/04\/pratchett_39-snuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (39) <cite>Snuff<\/cite> (audiobook)&#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":[48,64,15,118],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-discworld","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-single-narrator-audio","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}