{"id":51320,"date":"2024-07-25T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51320"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:38:12","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-another-fine-myth-by-robert-asprin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/07\/25\/%f0%9f%93%9a-another-fine-myth-by-robert-asprin\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:880,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/39f157f8-db9d-4d53-9fc9-5d80e859527b&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240804230504\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/39f157f8-db9d-4d53-9fc9-5d80e859527b&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 15:15:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 20:06:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 13:41:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 07:40:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 07:40:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>51\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/39f157f8-db9d-4d53-9fc9-5d80e859527b\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Myth series has been on my radar for years, so when I saw the first five books at the local library sale a couple months ago, I snapped them up. This first one is\u2026ehh. It\u2019s okay. It\u2019s not bad, but neither did it wow me. Maybe it\u2019s because it\u2019s the first in the series, maybe because it was written in \u201978 and I\u2019m reading it in \u201924, maybe because I\u2019m more of an SF reader, maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve fairly recently read the first few Discworld books and enjoyed them more than I did this, and maybe it\u2019s some combination of all of those factors, but I was somewhat underwhelmed. As long as I have the next four, I\u2019ll keep reading and see if they improve, though. (Also, why is Aahz about two feet taller than he should be on the cover art?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ra_afm-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Another Fine Myth\" title=\"ra_afm.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Ehh. It\u2019s okay. It\u2019s not bad, but neither did it wow me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2049],"tags":[5935,5934],"class_list":["post-51320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-photos","tag-myth-adventures","tag-robert-asprin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51320","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=51320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51452,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51320\/revisions\/51452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}