{"id":891,"date":"2012-12-12T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2012-12-15T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T16:26:05","slug":"sweet-myth-tery-of-life-by-robert-asprin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Myth-tery of Life by Robert Asprin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/35760\/edit\/57023518\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/b4\/ac\/b4ac3cf452f39bc593858565467434d414f4141.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Myth-tery of Life by Robert Asprin\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the 10th book in the Myth series by Robert Asprin.  The book gets off to a slow start, using old jokes and predictable situations.  About 1\/3 of the way through, Asprin&#8217;s style comes through and the book picks up with humorous situations and a few surprises.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is pretty weak, Queen Hemlock has asked Skeeve to marry her.  If he doesn&#8217;t, she is going to abdicate and leave him in charge.  His other responsibility is saving the kingdom from ruin due to a taxes shortfall.  He stumbles through in his usual incompetent way in a fun book.  He muddles through a couple of minor adventures but always comes out ahead.  <\/p>\n<p>The book does leave a number of unanswered questions, even to the point of setting up for a sequel.  I didn&#8217;t feel this is appropriate for a humor book, and I hope this doens&#8217;t continue in a very long series.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, the book is a fast read and worth the time.  But do read them in order.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 10th book in the Myth series by Robert Asprin. The book gets off to a slow start, using old jokes and predictable situations. About 1\/3 of the way through, Asprin&#8217;s style comes through and the book picks up with humorous situations and a few surprises. The plot is pretty weak, Queen Hemlock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}