{"id":4280,"date":"2012-10-22T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2012-10-22T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:25:57","slug":"the-colour-of-magic-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/10\/22\/the-colour-of-magic-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colour of Magic &#8212; Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/colour-of-magic.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"390\" alt=\"Cover of The Colour of Magic\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nThe Colour of Magic<br \/>\nTerry Pratchett<br \/>\n285 pages<br \/>\npublished in 1983<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nThe days are getting shorter, the nights are longer and I got the desire to reread some old favourites. It&#8217;s the time of year for comfort reading, as you may notice in my reading patterns from year to year and this time I wanted to lose myself in something actually good, rather than going for something mindless. Which is why I decided to reread the <cite>Discworld<\/cite> series from the beginning, though I won&#8217;t guarantee I&#8217;ll finish the series.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich brings me to <cite>The Colour of Magic<\/cite>, the very first Discworld novel. Over the years it has gotten somewhat of a bad reputation amongst Pratchett fans as not being up to the standards of the series, not being as funny or interesting, not a good place to start the series as a new reader. All of which has a kernel of truth, but at the same time it was the novel that kickstarted the whole series and if it really had no merit, it would&#8217;ve been the last book in the series. It is rough and ready, it doesn&#8217;t quite fit in with the Discworld as it would evolve over the course of the series, but it still has a certain charm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books2\/2012\/10\/the-colour-of-magic-terry-pratchett\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 285 pages published in 1983 The days are getting shorter, the nights are longer and I got the desire to reread some old favourites. It&#8217;s the time of year for comfort reading, as you may notice in my reading patterns from year to year and this time I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,137],"tags":[1683,318,1684],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-fantasy","tag-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-the-colour-of-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}