{"id":98,"date":"2006-08-13T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-08-13T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T21:24:00","slug":"the-grapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-grapple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0345457250.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1136584744_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0345457250.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1136584744_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I just finished reading Harry Turtledove&#8217;s <i>Settling Accounts: The Grapple<\/i>, taking place during World War II in an alternate world where the South won the American Civil war.  As usual, the plot moves along at a snail&#8217;s pace, the dialogues are unimaginative, and the whole thing is totally predictable as soon as one realises that the Confederate States = Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>So why did I buy it as soon as it came out, not even waiting for the paperback?  I guess it&#8217;s like watching a sitcom.  I read and enjoyed <i>How Few Remain<\/i>, and after that I always just wanted to read the next book in the series.  I had not in my wildest dream imagined Turtledove would write so many books (<i>How Few Remain<\/i>, <i>American Front<\/i>, <i>Walk in Hell<\/i>, <i>Breakthroughs<\/i>, <i>Blood and Iron<\/i>, <i>The Center Cannot Hold<\/i>, <i>The Victorious Opposition<\/i>, <i>Return Engagement<\/i>, <i>Drive to the East<\/i> and now <i>The Grapple<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>But by now I need to know how it goes on, so I&#8217;ll preorder <i>In at the Death<\/i> as soon as I can. :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Harry Turtledove&#8217;s Settling Accounts: The Grapple, taking place during World War II in an alternate world where the South won the American Civil war. As usual, the plot moves along at a snail&#8217;s pace, the dialogues are unimaginative, and the whole thing is totally predictable as soon as one realises that the Confederate States = Nazi Germany. So why did I buy it as soon as it came out, not even waiting for the paperback? I guess it&#8217;s like watching a sitcom. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatehistory","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}