{"id":4005,"date":"2016-11-08T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2016-11-06T22:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:10:18","slug":"mark-reads-jingo-part-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2016\/11\/mark-reads-jingo-part-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘Jingo’: Part 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the thirteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Jingo<\/i>, I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n

What is happening???<\/p>\n

Angua<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m never going to be bored by Angua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s POV sections because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always so well written! I just love that Pratchett writes her as existing in two forms at once instead of saying she is 100% human at one moment, and then 100% wolf once she changes form. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never liked werewolf stories that do that because it just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense to me. Instead, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m way more interested in what he presents here: a mixture of the two brains and instincts, with one overpowering the other whenever Angua is in that specific state. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still got access to some parts of her humanity, even though her wolf brain is mostly in control.<\/p>\n

Also, I really need her to be okay. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M WORRIED.<\/p>\n

71-Hour Ahmed<\/b><\/p>\n

I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T UNDERSTAND HIM. AT ALL. Obviously, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partially by design. Despite that we get some sections from his point of view in this section of\u00c2\u00a0Jingo<\/i>, Pratchett still keeps us at a distance. He never thinks about his plans, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still left largely in the darkness. Which is frustrating because from context clues, you can deduct that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working on his\u00c2\u00a0own<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0mission of sorts, which seems to be in direct contradiction to what the Klatchians want. His agenda makes no sense to me, but I know that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have all the information that I should.<\/p>\n

So, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I can discern from the text: He sees something in the sea behind the ship after one of his men reports that there is a monster that came out of the water. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sea monster, but assumes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something he just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about yet. He also DELIBERATELY cuts the sails on his ship to allow the one following his to catch up to him. In order to force a confrontation??? He also doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem all that bothered by the ridiculous St. Ungulant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s storm??? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW WHY?<\/p>\n

Colon<\/b><\/p>\n

Look, I just want to state that the whole, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Glad I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not like\u00c2\u00a0those<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0poor bastards,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d line is one of the funniest jokes in this whole damn book. Oh, Colon, you are exactly as Lord Vetinari described you.<\/p>\n

Vimes<\/b><\/p>\n

So, Vimes really\u00c2\u00a0did<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0make a universe-shifting decision when he chose to go after Angua. He was supposed to be facing an assassin! But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the big takeaway I had from this section. No, instead, I realized that this is perhaps the most poorly planned mission in the entirety of the\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0series. Not only did Vimes order his people to throw everything overboard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c literally everything that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t alive or being worn by said living people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but he has no real plan in terms of what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to do once he catches up to the ship where Angua is being held. Now, Vimes has talent in devising last-minute strategy, so maybe he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come up with something, but he has NOTHING to go on. Or to use. At all. IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ALL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN.<\/p>\n

And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the storm. I am at a complete loss here, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I have zero theories about what it is or where it came from. Based on what Jenkins says, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing this might be a common thing in the Circle Sea??? So, it could all be a bit of random coincidence thrown in to add some chaos to the story, but I never get the sense that Pratchett is\u00c2\u00a0random<\/i>, you know? And given Ahmed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to the storm, the magic element of it cannot be a mistake. Right??? Except\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 damn it, octarine energy is everywhere, and random intrusions of it in the Discworld\u00c2\u00a0is<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0common. SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO THINK.<\/p>\n

Except that Cheery is a genius for eating the sardines from the tins that fell from the sky. Bravo. When life gives you sardine cans, eat sardines.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9X8_pJpOSuI<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

– I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards. I POST A LOT OF CUTE PHOTOS, OKAY. Think of it like a private Tumblr blog that only SPECIAL PEOPLE get to read.<\/b>
\n– I have updated my list of conventions and events for the remainder of the year and much of next year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a>
\n– My Master Schedule<\/a> is updated for the near and distant future for most projects, so please check it often.\u00c2\u00a0My next Double Features for Mark Watches have been announced here.<\/a>
\n<\/b>-\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Does Stuff is on Facebook!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I’ve got a community page up that I’m running. Guaranteed shenanigans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"