{"id":52934,"date":"2026-07-26T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52934"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:43:38","slug":"eric-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/07\/26\/eric-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 33 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/d51ffc5b-2059-4d04-9979-8a95d00e3531\"><cite>Eric<\/cite><\/a> by Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: A shorter book, this is a relatively quick romp through a mashup of three wishes, Discworld\u2019s version of The Odyssey (rather amusing, as I read this just as Christopher Nolan\u2019s Odyssey film was in the theaters), and the joys of mid-level bureaucracy. Not bad, but not a standout.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Eric\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6560-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/d51ffc5b-2059-4d04-9979-8a95d00e3531&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250214162126\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/d51ffc5b-2059-4d04-9979-8a95d00e3531&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-27 00:43:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-30 03:05:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-03 10:31:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-07 19:25:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-15 04:28:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-15 04:28:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 33 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: A shorter book, this is a relatively quick romp; not bad, but not a standout.<\/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-52934","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\/52934","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=52934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52940,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52934\/revisions\/52940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}