{"id":761,"date":"2013-10-09T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=761"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:34:18","slug":"pratchett_32-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/10\/pratchett_32-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (32-33) <cite>A Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up the logging of the Discworld re-read after a long delay, with two quick reports. <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>A Hat Full of Sky<\/cite><\/strong>: I liked this more than I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/08\/pratchett_terry_13.php\">remembered<\/a> or expected, which was a lovely surprise; this is getting close to the end, and I was worried about the downward slide. The external threat here is so tense, and all the pre-adolescent stuff feels real and uncomfortable the way Tiffany&#8217;s relationship with Granny Aching did in the first book. There was more Granny Weatherwax than I remembered, too, and I love their interactions. And I will always laugh at Rob Anyway holding up a scrap of paper with &#8220;PLN&#8221; written on it and declaring that now they have a plan. <\/p>\n<p>Just one spoiler comment, which hardly seems worth going behind the jump, so ROT-13 (see sidebar): gur uvire pbagvahrf Gvssnal&#8217;f geraq bs haqrefgnaqvat bccbaragf orsber qrnyvat jvgu gurz. <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Going Postal<\/cite><\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/pratchett_terry_14.php\">Still love it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, that&#8217;s not all there is to say: one of these days I will read <a href=\"http:\/\/skygiants.dreamwidth.org\/319651.html\"><cite>The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century&#8217;s On-line Pioneers<\/cite><\/a> and doubtless want to re-read <cite>Going Postal<\/cite> yet again; and the ending is an interesting data point regarding Discworld&#8217;s attitudes towards elites and power. Aaand . . . that&#8217;s it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up the logging of the Discworld re-read after a long delay, with two quick reports. A Hat Full of Sky: I liked this more than I remembered or expected, which was a lovely surprise; this is getting close to the end, and I was worried about the downward slide. The external threat here is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/10\/pratchett_32-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (32-33) <cite>A Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal<\/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-761","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\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}