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diff --git a/content/brain-rot/discworld/interesting-times.md b/content/brain-rot/discworld/interesting-times.md deleted file mode 100644 index 747a05d..0000000 --- a/content/brain-rot/discworld/interesting-times.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ -+++ -title = "Interesting Times (1995)" -author = ["MichaĆ Sapka"] -date = 2024-02-13T21:06:00+01:00 -categories = ["brainrot"] -draft = false -weight = 3001 -primary_menu = "brain-rot" -abstract = "A very short review" -aliases = ["/blog/2024/interesting-times/"] -[menu] - [menu.brain-rot] - weight = 3001 - identifier = "interesting-times-1995" -+++ - -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. - -{{< 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&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 |