{"id":52119,"date":"2025-06-17T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52119"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:17:35","slug":"balance-of-power-by-dafydd-ab-hugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/06\/17\/balance-of-power-by-dafydd-ab-hugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance of Power by Dafydd Ab Hugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:476,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/75d9bc2f-6fa4-4920-8cd0-930a0c1e2ec6&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>Book 33 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/75d9bc2f-6fa4-4920-8cd0-930a0c1e2ec6\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the third book I&#8217;ve read by Ab Hugh, and the third to get two stars. It&#8217;s obviously supposed to be comedic, but isn&#8217;t funny (the conceit of a Ferengi who speaks entirely like it&#8217;s &#8220;talk like a pirate day&#8221; may be hilarious to some; to me, it was increasingly annoying), there are numerous typos and inconsistencies, and it was just a slog. Not looking forward to when I get to more by this author (though I&#8217;ll read them, because I&#8217;m a stubborn Trek completist).<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_4465.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Balance of Power\" title=\"IMG_4465.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 33\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: It&#8217;s obviously supposed to be comedic, but isn&#8217;t funny, there are numerous typos and inconsistencies, and it was just a slog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2047],"tags":[2981,4097],"class_list":["post-52119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-star-trek","tag-dafydd-ab-hugh","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52119","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=52119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52309,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52119\/revisions\/52309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}