In the fourteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Jingo<\/i>, I have no idea where this book is headed anymore. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I honestly figured this book would never make it past Leshp, but here we are. Vimes and his crew have made it to Klatch, and I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BOOK ANYMORE.<\/p>\n
Angua<\/b><\/p>\n
Well, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clever and cunning, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for sure. I like that Pratchett had her make a distinction between how her wolf and her human sides would attempt to escape, particularly since one option is what Ahmed expected. He assumed that she would get out eventually, right? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why he had his men stand with a net outside the door. What no one anticipated was for Angua to escape as a human, and I gotta say, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brilliant. She uses the awkwardness of being naked to distract people, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what allows her to get off the ship. But there are two things here that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense to me.<\/p>\n
1) Prince Khufurah. We knew Ahmed brought someone onboard, and it makes sense that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d take him home, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he being taken care of? No doctors or anything attending him? From Angua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective, he looked\u00c2\u00a0awful<\/i>, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad thing, right?<\/p>\n
Look, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big plot twist or anything, but given that Ahmed makes no sense at all, I have to question what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing with the Prince. Why?<\/p>\n
2) Because he lets Angua go! He sees her clinging to the side of the ship, winks at her, THEN LIES ABOUT HER AND SAYS SHE PROBABLY DROWNED. Why??? Why did he catch her in the first place if he was just going to let her escape? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT.<\/p>\n
The Submarine<\/b><\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand a lot of things here. Oh, the Scrabble scene was great, the periscope invention (complete with the cork gag) is hilarious, and the\u00c2\u00a0hieroglyph\/loweroglyph joke made me want to disappear into the ether. Plus, it was nice to check in with Solid Jackson to learn that he was still being as stubborn as usual, all while his son continues to insult him at every turn for said stubbornness. All of this is great, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I have any complaints. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just utterly lost in terms of guessing\u00c2\u00a0why<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Vetinari is having them visit the space\u00c2\u00a0under<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Leshp. I thought maybe that it was a volcano because Colon and Nobby remarked on the smell of sulfur, but how the hell are hieroglyphs still important? What about all the stuff about the language of color? Does Vetinari have a theory about what Leshp is that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not sharing with anyone?<\/p>\n
That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on here because otherwise, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got nothing to go on.<\/p>\n
Shipwrecks<\/b><\/p>\n
Remember when I said that Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s improvised plan for rescuing Angua and finding out what Ahmed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to was bad? I take it back, because now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0worse<\/i>. Which is very much unlike Vimes, and I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why this is so fun and frustrating, you know? Just like the submarine plot, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m completely at the whims of Pratchett here, unsure of what awaits over the next dune. Well, I\u00c2\u00a0do<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0know what awaits them all, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s besides the point. Vimes has no idea that Angua has already escaped, that Ahmed let her, and that Ahmed himself is no longer on his own ship. Is this a D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122regs thing? Is that why he is acting\u00c2\u00a0against<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Klatch?<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. This is a common refrain from me at this point. Yet I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m intrigued by how chaotic this book feels! The characters are all in this interesting predicament far from home and far from their comfort zones. Even Constable Visit can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t admit to any certainty beyond the fact that there are gods looking out for both sides. (Which is not very helpful, of course.) So when Vimes orders Jenkins to take the ship to shore, he just adds more chaos to the mix. Aside from providing the world with the most hilarious shipwreck, he strands Jenkins and his crew; Detritus is suffering due to the heat; none of them know that Angua is\u00c2\u00a0behind<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0them; and then this is how Pratchett ends the chapter:<\/p>\n At which point, the sand stood up and drew a hundred swords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, Vimes and his crew are surrounded. By D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122regs? Other Klatchians? WHO KNOWS? My gods, this is a mess, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such an entertaining mess.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EMu8-8GDOo0<\/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> In the fourteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Jingo, I have no idea where this book is headed anymore. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[521,463,248],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-jingo","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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