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-title = "Interesting Times (1995)"
-author = ["MichaƂ Sapka"]
-date = 2024-02-13T21:06:00+01:00
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-abstract = "A very short review"
-aliases = ["/blog/2024/interesting-times/"]
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-> 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' ...
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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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-{{< rating 3.75 "pratchett-interesting-times.jpg" >}}
-Cover
-{{< /rating >}}
-
-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.
-
-I give it a `3.75/5`.
-
-
-## 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