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Jun. 4th, 2012 08:14 pmSo I am about a month late in reading Interesting Times for my big Discworld read project, but in my defense, a.) finals, and b.) ARGH, Interesting Times! One hundred percent the Discworld book I was least looking forward to rereading, and it was worse than I remembered.
So the plot of Interesting Times is this: Discworld Chinajapan is much too repressed, conformist, and instinctively obedient to have a revolution, even though one book about Ankh-Morpork made them all realize how much better the West was and therefore made them really want one! What these people need is some white dudes! Like Rincewind! And also Discworld GENGHIS KHAN to be the new Emperor and overthrow all of Chinajapan's ridiculous and pointless and outdated customs!
AW YEAH oh wait no.
There are also a lot of high-larious rape jokes around Cohen's army of octogenarians but this is really just the cherry of fail on the icing of racism on the cake of please Terry Pratchett never try to write about Asian countries again.
PS: but this book did give us one good thing, which is Rincewind pondering that there is no particular reason to think of the Luggage as male, even though the Luggage finds a lady Luggage and spawns tiny Luggages, so I am down with the Luggage being a lesbian.
PPS: okay this book also gave us Twoflower being adorable and sad but that doesn't fix ANY OF THE PROBLEMS.
So the plot of Interesting Times is this: Discworld Chinajapan is much too repressed, conformist, and instinctively obedient to have a revolution, even though one book about Ankh-Morpork made them all realize how much better the West was and therefore made them really want one! What these people need is some white dudes! Like Rincewind! And also Discworld GENGHIS KHAN to be the new Emperor and overthrow all of Chinajapan's ridiculous and pointless and outdated customs!
AW YEAH oh wait no.
There are also a lot of high-larious rape jokes around Cohen's army of octogenarians but this is really just the cherry of fail on the icing of racism on the cake of please Terry Pratchett never try to write about Asian countries again.
PS: but this book did give us one good thing, which is Rincewind pondering that there is no particular reason to think of the Luggage as male, even though the Luggage finds a lady Luggage and spawns tiny Luggages, so I am down with the Luggage being a lesbian.
PPS: okay this book also gave us Twoflower being adorable and sad but that doesn't fix ANY OF THE PROBLEMS.
