{"id":49697,"date":"2023-08-13T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49697"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:12:24","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-light-fantastic-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/13\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-light-fantastic-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1181,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/36bd4b6d-3129-4a2f-ade1-27c8c6d14329&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>38\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/36bd4b6d-3129-4a2f-ade1-27c8c6d14329\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this one to already be a bit better than the first in the series; it certainly had more moments that made me chuckle or laugh out loud. I\u2019ve seen lots of comparisons between Pratchett and Douglas Adams, and while I could see that in the last one, it was definitely more evident here. As if with the first book, Pratchett and Adams definitely lived in the same town, but with this book they\u2019re now next-door neighbors. On its own and if found without any prior knowledge, the first wouldn\u2019t have hooked me; this one would have convinced me that I\u2019d be interested in reading more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Light Fantastic as an ebook on my iPad\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3986-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already a bit better than the first in the series; more moments that made me chuckle or laugh out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5759,2165],"class_list":["post-49697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}