{"id":5235,"date":"2015-04-30T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:47:58","slug":"the-custom-of-the-army-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5235","title":{"rendered":"The Custom of the Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007WKEM0A\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B007WKEM0A&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=H3L2SGK6OTW6LI5J\">The Custom of the Army<\/a><\/em> (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gabaldon_diana.php\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007WKEM0A\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B007WKEM0A&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkId=H3L2SGK6OTW6LI5J\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/custom-of-the-army.png?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"custom-of-the-army\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/custom-of-the-army.png?w=575&amp;ssl=1 575w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/custom-of-the-army.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Why do I like Lord John so much?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you\u2014 you don\u2019t stand for that. If there is any order in the world, any peace\u2014 it\u2019s because of you, John, and those very few like you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And why do I like these stories?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hal, whose usual communiqu\u00e9s consisted of hastily dashed-off notes, generally employing slightly fewer than the minimum number of words necessary to convey his message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are also some&#8230; not poetic, but nevertheless, fascinating descriptions of battle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smoke was drifting over the field, low white clouds. Forty paces. Effective range. \u201cDon\u2019t fire, don\u2019t fire, don\u2019t fire \u2026\u201d someone was chanting to himself, struggling against panic.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nChest heaving, he turned round in a circle, disoriented. There was so much smoke around him that he could not for a moment tell where he was. It didn\u2019t matter.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe entire battle had lasted less than a quarter of an hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Dell <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Custom of the Army (2012) Diana Gabaldon Why do I like Lord John so much? \u201cThe world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you\u2014 you don\u2019t stand for that. If there is any order in the world, any peace\u2014 it\u2019s because of you, John, and those very few like you.\u201d And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,30,33,148,56],"tags":[74,556,75],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-british","category-historical","category-queer","category-sexual-content","tag-diana-gabaldon","tag-georgian-era","tag-lord-john"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1mr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3342,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3342","url_meta":{"origin":5235,"position":0},"title":"The Custom of the Army","author":"Michelle","date":"December 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Custom of the Army (2012) Diana Gabaldon This is a Lord John novella. 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