{"id":1726,"date":"2011-12-31T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:06:49","slug":"book-log-the-wee-free-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Book Log – The Wee Free Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wee Free Men<\/em> by Terry Pratchett (a Discworld<\/em> novel)<\/p>\n

This was the first book I read on my Kindle.\u00a0 That’s right, you heard that… my KINDLE.<\/p>\n

Oh, how long I’ve dreamed of owning an e-Ink based device… 10 years since I first heard of the technology.\u00a0 I imagined then it would be the end of paper.<\/p>\n

Maybe that hasn’t happened yet… but it’s awesome.\u00a0 Truly awesome.\u00a0 Such readability! Such a nice case with built in light powered by the Kindle itself!<\/p>\n

My excitement was overwhelming and only tempered by the fact that not a single one of my Amazon Fiction Wish List books were available for the Kindle.\u00a0 I cast about for something… anything… to download and read.<\/p>\n

Terry Pratchett!\u00a0 He had some Discworld books I hadn’t read yet!\u00a0 Quick!\u00a0 Search!\u00a0 The Wee Free Men<\/em>!\u00a0 Haven’t read that one!\u00a0 Purchase!\u00a0 Done!\u00a0 Right there on my sofa!<\/p>\n

What I came to realize was that The Wee Free Men <\/em>is a book for young readers, apparently.\u00a0 Not that I could really tell from reading it.\u00a0 My best guess is that the difference between a Terry Pratchett young reader book and a Terry Pratchett regular book is there’s less sex, and the protagonist is a 12 year old girl.\u00a0 Also, DEATH did not make an appearance.<\/p>\n

So, it was okay.\u00a0 Not my favorite Discworld<\/em> novel by far, but readable.<\/p>\n

I have to imagine Pratchett was a bit tweaked when his frying-pan wielding protagonist showed up in the movie Tangled<\/em>.\u00a0 But then perhaps C.S. Lewis was tweaked in the afterworld when the sweet-bearing, child-stealing White Witch showed up in The Wee Free Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I’m now reading Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby<\/em> (downloaded for free from gutenberg.org) as a title more befitting this wondrous e-Ink techology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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