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+** DONE Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times
+CLOSED: [2024-02-13 Tue 21:06]
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+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: interesting-times
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract A very short review
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+#+begin_quote
+Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy).
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+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.
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+And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for eveyone is:
+
+Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard' ...
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+Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ...
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+...and a very special butterfly.
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+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]
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+[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]
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