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diff --git a/assets/content_images/pratchett-interesting-times.jpg b/assets/content_images/pratchett-interesting-times.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..59d1a07 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/content_images/pratchett-interesting-times.jpg diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 35cd385..1d2808e 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -7,10 +7,78 @@ #+HUGO_WEIGHT: auto #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [11/11] :@blog: +* 2024 [12/12] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :END: +** DONE Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times +CLOSED: [2024-02-13 Tue 21:06] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: interesting-times +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract A very short review +:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r +:END: +Cover blurp: +#+begin_quote +Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). + +The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I Did On My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. + +And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for eveyone is: + +Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard' ... + +Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... + +...and a very special butterfly. +#+end_quote + +#+attr_shortcode: "pratchett-interesting-times.jpg" +#+begin_img-r +Cover +#+end_img-r +I am, what one could call, an old school /nerd/. +All I care about are old operating systems, ancient editors and old SCIFI[fn:manga] +Ah, and some text based game where you are a cute "@". +/Of course/ I like Pratchett. + +I started reading him /years/ ago in the only way acceptable - chronological[fn:wrong]. +And I had a few years long pause. +Now, after a series of reading /only/ technical books I am returning to fiction. + +/[[https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/][Interesting Times]]/ is an ok-level Pratchett book. +It's not close to his best, it's not close to his worst[fn:worst]. + +This time Rincewind has to travel to Counterweight Continent and help a rebellion. +There he reconnects with old acquaintances - Twoflower, and Cohen to Barbarian. + +The problem is that there is not much more. +We've got a lot of Chinese things, which is new. +But the story itself is extremely straight-forward. +Nothing memorable happens. +I finished it 2 days ago, and already I would have a problem recollecting any standing out moment. +I still remember moments from other /Discworld/ books a decade after I read them! + +But Terry's writing makes me not care and just enjoy the journey. +He is able to make a boring story interesting, and his characters are always great. +I was reading the book while putting my son to sleep, and I almost gave him a heart attack with a laughter attack. +This alone makes it worth it! + +Not the best place to start with //Discworld// (the best is, of course, /Colour of Magic/) but as n-th book in the series it's very enjoyable. + +*** Meta +- Read as EPUB on Onyx Boox Note Air 2. +- Read in Polish translation +- Next up: back to Andrzej Sapkowski's with "Time of Contempt". I am not a good pole, having not read the entire saga. I promise to do it before my 40th birthday[fn:fort] + + +[fn:wrong] It's ok to disagree, just like it's ok to be wrong. +[fn:worst] Being a bad Pratchett's book still means being a very good one. +Most authors would love to reach the level of one of those at least once. +[fn:fort] Which is closer that I expected +[fn:manga] And manga&anime, but that's beside the point. +Not American comics though. +Never cared about those, and it seems I never will. ** DONE Wireless free since 2023 CLOSED: [2024-02-12 Mon 11:17] :PROPERTIES: diff --git a/content-org/me.org b/content-org/me.org index bed19c3..2a3991c 100644 --- a/content-org/me.org +++ b/content-org/me.org @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Starts in 2024 |-------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------------+--------+--------| | Title | Type | Dates | Rating | Extra | |-------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------------+--------+--------| -| Terry Pratchett's [[https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/][Interesting Times]] | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75/5 | | +| Terry Pratchett's [[https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/][Interesting Times]] | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75/5 | [[/blog/2024/interesting-times/][review]] | | Ghost in the Machine (1993) | Movie | 2024-02-09 | 3/5 | [[/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/][review]] | | [[https://jujutsukaisen.jp/][Jujutsu Kaisen]] [season 2] | Anime Series | 2024-01-01 - 2024-02-06 | 4.24/5 | | diff --git a/content/blog/2024/interesting-times.md b/content/blog/2024/interesting-times.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42c39fb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/interesting-times.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ ++++ +title = "Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times" +author = ["MichaĆ Sapka"] +date = 2024-02-13T21:06:00+01:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +abstract = "A very short review" ++++ + +Cover blurp: + +> Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). +> +> The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I Did On My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. +> +> And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for eveyone is: +> +> Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard' ... +> +> Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... +> +> ...and a very special butterfly. + +{{< img-r "pratchett-interesting-times.jpg" >}} +Cover +{{< /img-r >}} + +I am, what one could call, an old school _nerd_. +All I care about are old operating systems, ancient editors and old SCIFI[^fn:1] +Ah, and some text based game where you are a cute "@". +_Of course_ I like Pratchett. + +I started reading him _years_ ago in the only way acceptable - chronological[^fn:2]. +And I had a few years long pause. +Now, after a series of reading _only_ technical books I am returning to fiction. + +_[Interesting Times](https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/)_ is an ok-level Pratchett book. +It's not close to his best, it's not close to his worst[^fn:3]. + +This time Rincewind has to travel to Counterweight Continent and help a rebellion. +There he reconnects with old acquaintances - Twoflower, and Cohen to Barbarian. + +The problem is that there is not much more. +We've got a lot of Chinese things, which is new. +But the story itself is extremely straight-forward. +Nothing memorable happens. +I finished it 2 days ago, and already I would have a problem recollecting any standing out moment. +I still remember moments from other _Discworld_ books a decade after I read them! + +But Terry's writing makes me not care and just enjoy the journey. +He is able to make a boring story interesting, and his characters are always great. +I was reading the book while putting my son to sleep, and I almost gave him a heart attack with a laughter attack. +This alone makes it worth it! + +Not the best place to start with __Discworld__ (the best is, of course, _Colour of Magic_) but as n-th book in the series it's very enjoyable. + + +## Meta {#meta} + +- Read as EPUB on Onyx Boox Note Air 2. +- Read in Polish translation +- Next up: back to Andrzej Sapkowski's with "Time of Contempt". I am not a good pole, having not read the entire saga. I promise to do it before my 40th birthday[^fn:4] + +[^fn:1]: And manga&anime, but that's beside the point. + Not American comics though. + Never cared about those, and it seems I never will. +[^fn:2]: It's ok to disagree, just like it's ok to be wrong. +[^fn:3]: Being a bad Pratchett's book still means being a very good one. + Most authors would love to reach the level of one of those at least once. +[^fn:4]: Which is closer that I expected
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