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Hedrigall posted:That is a good stretch of books! My absolute favourite stretch would be the late-90s/early-00s where you have: Yeah, looking forward to all those books as well. Also, Detritus was actually in Moving Pictures, also I think he's had some super small roles in previous books, since isn't he the bouncer (or Splatter I believe it was called when a Troll does the job) at the Broken/Mended drum? Either way, I'm familiar with him already. Glad to see he's coming back, he was a great troll character. I love this series so much so far that I've already bought all 40 mass-market paperback versions of the books even though I'm only 10 books in. I think the only thing I'm missing is the original illustrated version of Eric for obvious reasons. Discworld just loving owns so hard. Damo fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Hedrigall posted:I sure would like to check my PMs too around about now! Same 
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Dec 23, 2014 06:11
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Is Koom Valley (the location, not the warfare) in Thud! based on any particular real-world area? I really liked the description of its unstable, chaotic and purely dangerous nature.
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Dec 23, 2014 07:15
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So I'm rereading Reaper Man for the first time in years, and Death goes to see the village blacksmith , a man named Ned Simnel who is tinkering with building an engine. That is one hell of a call back, about what, 20 years later? Well done man
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Dec 23, 2014 07:29
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Hedrigall posted:That is a good stretch of books! My absolute favourite stretch would be the late-90s/early-00s where you have: What Night Watch really draws from is On Revolution by Hannah Arendt. Vimes' observations on the problems of empire and revolution and how it is tied together is pretty much the bullet points cliffs notes version with humor mixed in. And since it is one of the most salient texts to come out of the past 100 years, him repackaging the core takeaways so a wider audience gets them is a very good thing http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Penguin-Classics-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0143039903
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[quote="Hedrigall" post=""439317461"] • Thief of Time (2001) - Death/Susan but also introduces the History Monks who are awesome, ties in to Night Watch[/quote] Lu-Tze and the History Monks are introduced in Small Gods. Damo posted:Yeah, looking forward to all those books as well. Also, Detritus was actually in Moving Pictures, also I think he's had some super small roles in previous books, since isn't he the bouncer (or Splatter I believe it was called when a Troll does the job) at the Broken/Mended drum?
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Dec 23, 2014 10:38
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Fried Chicken posted:So I'm rereading Reaper Man for the first time in years, and Death goes to see the village blacksmith , a man named Ned Simnel who is tinkering with building an engine. It's also useful if you're trying to figure out how much time has passed in the span of series. Rincewind must be at least in his fifties by now.
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Dec 23, 2014 10:40
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Alhazred posted:Lu-Tze and the History Monks are introduced in Small Gods. I know, but ToT is the first book about them. Alhazred posted:I really like how you can follow Detritus life from being associated with crime, falling in love with a female troll, trying to be a law abiding citizen and finally becoming a respected member of the watch. I don't think you can do that to any of the other minor characters in series. Gaspode has a bit of an arc throughout other peoples' books doesn't he?
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Dec 23, 2014 10:59
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Pidmon posted:Is Koom Valley (the location, not the warfare) in Thud! based on any particular real-world area? I really liked the description of its unstable, chaotic and purely dangerous nature. I think it's a play on Coombe/Combe/Cwm meaning Valley, with the K from Kashmir. It's one of those tautological things like the River Avon or Mississippi, and the geography fits the region, the fighting, the floods and the elements causing more danger than the enemy.
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Hedrigall posted:
Has he? He basically stays a street dog throughout the series without really changing.
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Fried Chicken posted:So I'm rereading Reaper Man for the first time in years, and Death goes to see the village blacksmith , a man named Ned Simnel who is tinkering with building an engine. I caught that only because the harvesting engine was mentioned, I forgot the name. I'm about a quarter into Raising Steam so far, and it's pretty good, although crammed with characters which any new reader is going to have trouble keeping up with, I imagine.
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Fried Chicken posted:So I'm rereading Reaper Man for the first time in years, and Death goes to see the village blacksmith , a man named Ned Simnel who is tinkering with building an engine. AND in Reaper Man, Ned Simnel is trying to think of a way to power his combine harvester when he's distracted by the steam from his kettle going off - which in reality led to the invention of the steam engine.
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Total Meatlove posted:I think it's a play on Coombe/Combe/Cwm meaning Valley, with the K from Kashmir. It's one of those tautological things like the River Avon or Mississippi, and the geography fits the region, the fighting, the floods and the elements causing more danger than the enemy. Every time one of these comes up I feel so thick. How did I not get that!
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Corrode posted:Every time one of these comes up I feel so thick. How did I not get that! I have only just now gotten the pun in Casanova vs Casanunda (over vs under)
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Dec 23, 2014 16:31
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I have 30 messages and that's a really unlucky number where I come from.
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YggiDee posted:I have only just now gotten the pun in Casanova vs Casanunda (over vs under) Argh 
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Don't beat yourselves up - I know someone who had to have The Joye of Snacks explained to them.
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YggiDee posted:I have only just now gotten the pun in Casanova vs Casanunda (over vs under) Oh god drat it.
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YggiDee posted:I have only just now gotten the pun in Casanova vs Casanunda (over vs under) This is why despite knowing of the annotation site, I'm not going to review it any time soon. Pratchett's going to keep surprising me for years to come.
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One of my favourite Pratchett quotes.quote:"...A gag that no-one's ever said they've got is the Patrician's name, Lord Vetinari. I always think of the Patrician as a vaguely Florentine prince, a sort of Machiavelli and Robespierre rolled into one. And of course there was Medici. So I thought if you had the Medici, then you would have the Dentistri, and the Vetinari. The Discworld is full of things which don't look like gags but are gags, if only you can work out what the intervening step is which I haven't given."
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Trin Tragula posted:One of my favourite Pratchett quotes. And also why Vetinari's nickname at school is "Dog Botherer"
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:And also why Vetinari's nickname at school is "Dog Botherer" I did wonder about that.
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Trin Tragula posted:One of my favourite Pratchett quotes. And then there's the Selachii family. In taxonomy, the selachii family is the group to which all sharks belong.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:And also why Vetinari's nickname at school is "Dog Botherer" And why the Uberwaldian Werewolves twitch every time his name is spoken.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:And also why Vetinari's nickname at school is "Dog Botherer"
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Jedit posted:And then there's the Selachii family. In taxonomy, the selachii family is the group to which all sharks belong. And of course their noble enemies, the Venturi family. That was probably my favourite "oh goddamn it" moment when I realised it.
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My favorite thing about these books is forgetting the puns so I can groan at them again, this week I re-understood the Stronginthearm joke.
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Akett posted:My favorite thing about these books is forgetting the puns so I can groan at them again, this week I re-understood the Stronginthearm joke. That's not a joke; historically it's a real name. If, on the other hand, Bjorn Stronginthearm is your uncle, that's a classic.
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Akett posted:My favorite thing about these books is forgetting the puns so I can groan at them again, this week I re-understood the Stronginthearm joke. Its that they make crossbows, which use mechanical power, rather than swords and axes which use physical strength (or require you to be strong in the arm), right?
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It's a bunch of things - Burleigh is a homophone for burly, it's about them being muscle powered and it's supposed to sound like things like Heckler&Koch or Smith & Wesson.
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Happy Hogswatch, everybody 
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Long post but whenever Hogfather is mentioned I think of the following quote and how much it has shaped my world view since first time I read it 12 years ago. The works of Terry Pratchett (and Kurt Vonnegut) have changed the way I think about myself, the world, and my place in it. Happy Hogswatch everyone!quote:
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Dec 25, 2014 22:45
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John Dough posted:Happy Hogswatch, everybody Hogswatch is actually New Year's Eve. 
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I've just started Hogfather (and am avoiding the above quote for fear of spoilers) - I was wondering if it was Christmas themed. He is their equivalent of Santa, I guess?
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VagueRant posted:I've just started Hogfather (and am avoiding the above quote for fear of spoilers) - I was wondering if it was Christmas themed. He is their equivalent of Santa, I guess? Yes, the Hogfather is a slightly different Santa Claus.
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Yes, he's a Santa figure, even down to dressing in white and red, riding a sled, and throwing things through windows. Also I'll edit my post to include spoilers sorry about that.
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I recently finished reading Good Omens. Didn't really like it tho'. The first half with Aziraphale and Crowley dicking around is pretty entertaining, but then you get to Adam and the gang and the book just dies. The ending is completely anticlimactic too, Adam just wishes all the baddies away and that's it. The book is also unnecessarily dark/schizophrenic in tone, didn't need the part about people being turned into skeletons by a maggot demon in a book that makes a running gag out of the number of nipples someone is carrying around. Feels like they should have focused more on Aziraphale/Crowley, or the predictions of Agnes Nutter and the associated present day cast (Agnes feels a lot like a Discworld witch). Or even played up the analogies between the four Them and the four Riders they apparently were going with. All in all, it feels like a weaker/discarded Discworld idea. How are the other non-Discworld Pratchett books? Any one recommended in particular? I only have the latest Discworld books to go through (I think the last one i read was Thud! ?), but they are the sort of not so good ones.
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I haven't got to the earlier non-Discworld books yet, but Nation is pretty good. Dodger was also pretty decent, though it feels like an Ankh-Morpork story that was shifted to Roundworld. Stay away from The Long Earth series. I feel like It's more Baxter than Pratchett, and I found myself having to force myself to finish the first 2 books. They've put me off of even trying the third.
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