I also saw Master and Commander<\/i> on the weekend. I’m such a fan of the books that the relative lack of story didn’t bother me. I just lay back and sucked it all in. All the little quotes and in-jokes, from the two weevils to “not a moment to lose” to Killick and toasted cheese to Padeen to Awkward Davis to Joe Plaice’s brains. It was too short!<\/p>\n
People who complain about the lack of action don’t realize that character and scene development are the defining features of the books, too. I remember giving up on the books as a teenager because there wasn’t enough action! But now the character development is most of the attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I also saw Master and Commander on the weekend. I’m such a fan of the books that the relative lack of story didn’t bother me. I just lay back and sucked it all in. All the little quotes and in-jokes, from the two weevils to “not a moment to lose” to Killick and toasted cheese … Continue reading “Not a moment to lose!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}