{"id":4980,"date":"2019-06-24T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2019-06-24T07:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:29:55","slug":"mark-reads-unseen-academicals-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2019\/06\/mark-reads-unseen-academicals-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;Unseen Academicals&#8217;: Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the seventh part of <i>Unseen Academicals<\/i>, a character dies. Sort of. Then they live again! Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Discworld<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HI WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HAPPENING??? Oh my god, this feels unprecedented, though I know that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening here. The information given in this section is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, can I even say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contradictory? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pratchett! By the end of <i>Unseen Academicals<\/i>, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure this will all make sense. So, let me try to get this, because right now, all I want to know is <i>WHO THE FUCK IS MR. NUTT<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcYou told Constable Haddock that you saw a fight going on and when you got there all the big boys had run away and, amazingly, you found your workmate, Mister Mutts, bleeding to death.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From one hit with a club? How? How the hell is that possible? Is there some physiological explanation for this that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not aware of? And I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even bring this up as anything important, except that we later learn that Nutt was covered in blood, but there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any apparent cut on his body??? So where the hell did all that blood come from? Also, HIS HEART STOPPED. Like, I keep re-reading the scene where Algernon hit Nutt and what follows, and Mr. Nutt seemed very, very dead. Trev certainly believed it enough to have Nutt taken to the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. But then, Doctor Lawn arrives during Angua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interrogation of Trev, and I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. Nutt is definitely alive! And if we trust the scene with Death\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI have literally no reason not to\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthen Nutt was apparently about to die before the sand in his hourglass started running in the other direction. WHY? HOW???<\/p>\n<p>I do like that this appears to be the catalyst for a fracture between Trev and the Posse. As I said before, it seemed that Trev wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happy with them, but wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t at a place to leave. But <i>this<\/i>? Lord, he lays into Carter in this section, and why shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he? Even if Nutt is alive, for a time he was ABSOLUTELY believed to be dead. The gang KILLED someone! How can he ever trust any of them again? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m actually really interested to see what will happen when Andy and Trev meet again, because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be awkward and uncomfortable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All right, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about another curveball lofted my way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIth he thubject to thtrange moodth?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Igor ploughed on. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDoth he get into a rage? Do you know anything about hith eating habitth?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so: clearly Igor knows something about this that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping close to his chest. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an Uberwald thing, too. What sort of goblins do they have there? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m now convinced that Nutt is a specific kind\/species of goblin, one that is apparently associated with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strange moods\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and rage problems and a voracious appetite. Do I know what that actually <i>means<\/i>? Oh, not at all. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only theory that would explain Igor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actions and why Trev should keep an eye out on him. But is that even necessary? Nutt seems so pure and nice!!! Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he <i>does<\/i> have an appetite. UGH WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GOING ON.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta say, though, that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pleasantly surprised at how much of this book is following the people who work in Unseen University and <i>aren&#8217;t<\/i> wizards. I know we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been talking about this change in the comments, and I truly do enjoy this surprise. Glenda, Juliet, Trev, and Nutt are all so damn fascinating! (And I say that while also appreciating that when we do get back to the wizards, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eager to see how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll continue to change, too.) Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, Glenda is amazingly protective of the people she cares for. We see that here in how she tries to protect Juliet, first from Mr. Ottomy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suspicions, but also from Trev, too. I get the sense that she is realizing that perhaps the latter is gonna be a little harder than she expected. I mean, Juliet declared that she loves Trev ALREADY. That boat has already sailed, but you know what? I bet Glenda is still going to look after her regardless. Seriously, she put a knife up to Mr. Ottomy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s neck. (Well, technically, she held it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in a not totally threatening way quite close to his throat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) And she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a mysterious history in Quirm??? What happened there? Why did that make her angry???<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this whole split is just jam-packed with tiny moments and big reveals. Oh god, the troll seats! Fancy public transportation! Mr. Stollop is being asked to a dinner with Vetinari about the future of football! Oh my god, this exchange was amazing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not bad boys, you know. Not at heart. People pick on them.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>Yes, down at the Watch House, she said to herself, where people say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s them! The big ones! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d know them anywhere!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>YES. <i>YES<\/i>. From a different perspective, these boys are <i>not<\/i> the ones who are picked on! But Mr. Stollop is unaware of this because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, a lot of things, I imagine. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caught up in the collective joy and intensity of sports; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a toxic angle to masculinity that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at work here, too; and people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to think the folks they care about or love are capable of being bad to others. Just because these boys don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t treat Mr. Stollop badly does not mean they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do bad things. UGH, PRATCHETT IS COMING AT THIS FROM SO MANY ANGLES. And I love that! I love that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s satire, legit criticism, and adoration all mixed up with empathy in his depiction of this!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrDgHFVttTs<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2019\/5\/7\/the-anger-is-a-gift-trade-paperback-is-out-today\">The paperback edition of my debut, ANGER IS A GIFT, is now OUT!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the seventh part of Unseen Academicals, a character dies. Sort of. Then they live again! Intrigued? 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