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#+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
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|-------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------------+--------+--------|
| 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
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++++
+title = "Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times"
+author = ["MichaƂ 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&amp;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 \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/content/me/now.md b/content/me/now.md
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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Starts in 2024
| Title | Type | Dates | Rating | Extra |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------|--------|--------------------------------------------|
-| Terry Pratchett's [Interesting Times](https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/) | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75/5 | |
+| Terry Pratchett's [Interesting Times](https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/) | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75/5 | [review](/blog/2024/interesting-times/) |
| Ghost in the Machine (1993) | Movie | 2024-02-09 | 3/5 | [review](/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/) |
| [Jujutsu Kaisen](https://jujutsukaisen.jp/) [season 2] | Anime Series | 2024-01-01 - 2024-02-06 | 4.24/5 | |
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