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rejutka posted:Vimes will always be Pete Postlethwaite to me. When he died, I was so annoyed. "No! You're not allowed to die until you play Vimes!"
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rejutka posted:Vimes will always be Pete Postlethwaite to me. I was going to say as much as I love Giuseppe Coner I mean Pete Postelthwaite he's not Vimes to me but uh  I uh
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Apr 26, 2012 03:45
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Nilbop posted:I was going to say as much as I love Giuseppe Coner I mean Pete Postelthwaite he's not Vimes to me but uh  Sigh and so on.
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Apr 26, 2012 03:48
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Nilbop posted:I was going to say as much as I love Giuseppe Coner I mean Pete Postelthwaite he's not Vimes to me but uh Looks more like Nobby to me there.
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Apr 28, 2012 08:01
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I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a Batman fan, but I've always pictured Vimes as being played by Gary Oldman.
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Apr 28, 2012 10:19
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Chaos Sonic posted:I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a Batman fan, but I've always pictured Vimes as being played by Gary Oldman. Okay, this would be pretty awesome.
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Apr 28, 2012 18:36
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I have never been able to figure out what PTerry intends Vimes to look like. At first, he sounds like he should be a big guy, like Fred Colon only in better shape. But then there's the one where he acts like Columbo the whole novel so I started thinking of him as a rumpled old guy. But then any scene involving his marriage makes him sound like a typical giant Lord Of The Manor type. He's the only character I don't have a clear picture in my head for (well, except Rincewind, but that's mostly because nobody told Kirby that he was supposed to be much younger than he appears on the early covers). Much of why I loved the Sky version of Going Postal is that they absolutely nailed Adora and Moist. It's like they just reached into my brain and picked the exact two people I was picturing.
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Apr 28, 2012 18:56
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precision posted:I have never been able to figure out what PTerry intends Vimes to look like. At first, he sounds like he should be a big guy, like Fred Colon only in better shape. But then there's the one where he acts like Columbo the whole novel so I started thinking of him as a rumpled old guy. But then any scene involving his marriage makes him sound like a typical giant Lord Of The Manor type. Vimes looks like Dirty Harry, only in a breastplate and helmet instead of a suit.
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Apr 28, 2012 23:28
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I dunno, I remember when I read the Discworld books I always thought of Vimes as a slightly skinny and lanky man. What with growing up in a slum, I figured he'd be more wiry than well-built, and since he's always described as being unkempt and disgruntled, that sort of filled in a pretty good idea of what he looks like for me.
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Apr 28, 2012 23:30
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precision posted:I have never been able to figure out what PTerry intends Vimes to look like. I'm pretty sure that in one of the side books, Terry mentions that he pictures Vimes as a younger, beefier Pete Postlethwaite; I can't remember which book it was in, and could be wrong, but I don't really feel the same way... To me, Vimes has always been a skinnier, slightly less well built Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry. Edit: basically what Jedit said really.
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Apr 29, 2012 03:45
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Yeah, he said it in The Art of Discworld.
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Apr 29, 2012 04:04
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Just finished The Truth Did I catch a Pulp Fiction reference in there with respect to Mr. Pin's wallet??
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Apr 30, 2012 00:17
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Sammyz posted:Just finished The Truth That you did. One of the references I'm proud to say I actually got in a sea of ones I missed  Wasn't it also the book with a conversation like the "royale with cheese" one?
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Apr 30, 2012 00:25
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Urdnot Fire posted:That you did. One of the references I'm proud to say I actually got in a sea of ones I missed It -ing was I do recall.
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Apr 30, 2012 01:23
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I seem to recall The Truth being chock full of Pulp Fiction references.
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Apr 30, 2012 06:12
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One our foreign friends may not get. The Low Kings of the Dwarves are crowned on the Scone of Stone. The High Kings of the Scots were crowned on the Stone of Scone (pronounced "Scoone").
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Apr 30, 2012 08:20
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Jedit posted:One our foreign friends may not get. The Low Kings of the Dwarves are crowned on the Scone of Stone. The High Kings of the Scots were crowned on the Stone of Scone (pronounced "Scoone"). It's still used to crown the British monarch, though we returned it to the scots a few years ago. And, of course, it was once famously nicked, broken, and returned amid rumours of it having been replaced.
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Apr 30, 2012 13:09
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AXE COP posted:I can't wait until people spot the pun in Sto Lat. That's not a pun, but a reference to a Polish birthday song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sto_lat
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May 4, 2012 20:56
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DocRanger posted:That's not a pun, but a reference to a Polish birthday song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sto_lat I actually made it up to see if anyone would fall for it then I read through the APF and discovered it was actually a reference to something. :I
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May 4, 2012 21:01
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Terry's on the Late Late show in Ireland tonight if anyone is staying in. Yes, you have to put up with Ryan Tubridy but, you know, Terry. Just finished. I don't think Terry was having a good day and he had to hunt around for the right word a few times, sometimes just changing the sentence. The interview pretty much focused on his Alzheimer's and support for assisted death, so pretty serious but Terry was Terry. rejutka fucked around with this message at 22:11 on May 4, 2012 |
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May 4, 2012 21:18
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Crumpet posted:I'm pretty sure that in one of the side books, Terry mentions that he pictures Vimes as a younger, beefier Pete Postlethwaite; I can't remember which book it was in, and could be wrong, but I don't really feel the same way... That's from The Art Of Discworld.
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May 4, 2012 23:09
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Donated the Hebrew editions of my Pratchett books to the library. The translation is kinda crap, but a librarian told me kids were really into them. Helping raise a new generation of fans here 
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May 8, 2012 09:55
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Goodwill had a half-off sale Saturday. Found a hardback of Wintersmith, which I hadn't read yet. 
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May 8, 2012 10:33
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I'm going to poke into this thread to say firstly that I may just have to pick up Dodger on release, and secondly, anyone that hasn't yet read Good Omens because it's not Discworld should really get off their rear end and go read it. It's one of the best books he's ever written. It's also kind of early 90s in mood. But I still go back to it every two or three years since I first read it because it's just that good. Edit: although some of it is timeless: Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys." bewilderment fucked around with this message at 13:08 on May 16, 2012 |
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May 16, 2012 13:00
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The problem with Good Omens, is that the bits dealing with Aziraphale and Crowley, are far more interesting than with the other characters, and then they vanish halfway through the book, while Adam and Antathema's comparatively dull subplots take place. It's only when they reappear it becomes interesting again.
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May 16, 2012 23:01
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Am I an incredible manchild for pre-ordering The World Of Poo? I'm currently halfway through Snuff and this popped up in my Amazon recommended list. Hopefully it will be as delightfully immature as I am expecting it to be
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May 18, 2012 08:38
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Ive just watched this small documentary that Terry made, when he went on a quest to find an answer for himself, how he want to die. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slZnfC-V1SY Even though i knew he had alzheimers, i didn't know that it progressed to the point that he is unable to type, and its his assistant who is writing it down from his dictation. The way he approached this subject is amazing. I hope he did find his answer. After seeing this, i wish he would write another novel about Death. I wonder what kind of story his brilliant mind would be able to create now, after being so close to it.
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So I was at Goodwill on their weekly half-off day a couple of weeks ago and spotted a hardback of Wintersmith, which I haven't yet read. I grabbed it and just now got around to opening it to find... Not bad for a buck!
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May 18, 2012 13:30
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What a lucky find. I wonder why they put it up for sale though?
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May 18, 2012 15:26
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Pope Guilty posted:
Unsigned, it would have been worth $2!
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May 18, 2012 17:35
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SeanBeansShako posted:What a lucky find. I wonder why they put it up for sale though? It's inscribed; maybe the owner didn't like the person who gave it to them?
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May 18, 2012 18:48
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A lot of times valuable books get sold in estate sales because nobody has a clue.
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May 18, 2012 19:16
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I've still got my signed copy of The Truth in my cupboard somewhere. It says "Happy Birthday" if I remember correctly.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A lot of times valuable books get sold in estate sales because nobody has a clue. Yup. Uncle of mine got a Bible from the 17th century this way. Bought it blind as part of a job lot of tatty old books for £50, sold it for £11,000. Lucky bugger. And my copy of Good Omens is signed by both Pratchett and Gaiman. Terry wrote "We made the devil do it!" and when I met Neil at a signing a few years later he added "And we got the royalties!". It's totally adorable
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May 19, 2012 19:05
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A lot of times valuable books get sold in estate sales because nobody has a clue. A long time ago, I found a tattered first edition paperback copy of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels at a thrift store. It had notes in the margins. Notes written by loving Sonny Barger.  I lost it in a move. 
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May 20, 2012 02:21
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precision posted:A long time ago, I found a tattered first edition paperback copy of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels at a thrift store. God drat. I asked Terry to sign a book for "the worlds greatest librarian", my mother, and it was inscribed "ook ook ook". 
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May 20, 2012 03:36
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Irisi posted:And my copy of Good Omens is signed by both Pratchett and Gaiman. Terry wrote "We made the devil do it!" and when I met Neil at a signing a few years later he added "And we got the royalties!". It's totally adorable Almost the same here - including the years apart thing. I got a "but he let's us keep all the royalties" from Neil and he added a couple more bat egg-timer things along with the hastily inscribed one I got from Terry.
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Irisi posted:Yup. Uncle of mine got a Bible from the 17th century this way. Bought it blind as part of a job lot of tatty old books for £50, sold it for £11,000. Lucky bugger. You may not know this, and you'll certainly never see it, but when they're not writing books or signing things for fans at conventions Neil and Terry are out in the woods having lots of fun and adventures together.
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In other Pterry news, Choosing to Die, Terry's documentary on assisted suicide, won the BAFTA award for Best Single Documentary this year. I missed it when it was on TV, alas.
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While I have no doubts it is an excellent documentary, that is an incredibly depressing title 
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