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Post your Pratchett! Highlights: First UK edition of Good Omens, first US edition of Night Watch, uncorrected proofs of Science of Discworld I and III, uncorrected proofs of the 3 Long Earth books (I don't know why so many uncorrected proofs end up in the used book store at my Barnes & Noble but I'm not complaining) Not pictured: the Art of Discworld (on another shelf) also my wife framed the map of Ankh-Morkpork as a birthday present a few years back; one of these days I need to iron it out though. 
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I think Feet of Clay is my favorite Watch book and I'm due for a re-read. Feet is Clay is really great, and contains a lot of striking imagery (the city in the fog, Carrot's "interrogation" of Dorfl). The poisoning storyline does drag a bit, though.
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Mar 18, 2019 17:49
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Trin Tragula posted:Do you actually want to talk about it, or just snipe? I'd genuinely like to hear about how other people read that book because the allusions seem so clear and obvious to me. The book is not about 1980s club football. It's about how camp-ball became association football, and my source for that is Terry himself. We can talk about the parallels if you like, especially the relationship between town and gown, but the allusions you see are I suspect the effect of times and people never truly changing.
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Mar 18, 2019 18:01
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Nemo2342 posted:I haven't read Shepherd's Crown yet though. Shepherd's Crown wrecked me. It's the only book I've considered quitting because I realized something terrible was about to happen and the only book that has made me cry.
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Mar 18, 2019 18:18
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The antagonist in Unseen Academicals is crowd psychology, which Vetinari is trying to make a small shift in. Anyway, I'm going to say the weakest book is Witches Abroad, which has a lot of gags but suffers because Lilith Weatherwax doesn't really make sense as an antagonist. She's going to force people to fit tropes, and this makes her the good one because ?????.
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Mar 18, 2019 18:27
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Rand Brittain posted:The antagonist in Unseen Academicals is crowd psychology, which Vetinari is trying to make a small shift in. Have you ever heard anyone say that something is a war between good and evil and then put themselves on the side of evil?
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Mar 18, 2019 18:33
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Rand Brittain posted:Lilith Weatherwax doesn't really make sense as an antagonist. OK I wonder what Rand Brittain posted:She's going to force people to fit tropes, and this makes her the good one because ?????. huh 
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Mar 18, 2019 18:34
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Jedit posted:Have you ever heard anyone say that something is a war between good and evil and then put themselves on the side of evil? Dr Evil?
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Mar 18, 2019 19:10
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Bilirubin posted:Dr Evil? I shall call you... Trini-Me.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:36
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Jedit posted:The book is not about 1980s club football. I didn't say the book was about football in the 80s. What I said was that the culture that surrounds football in A-M, which is clearly a pre-industrial mob football game, is very reminiscent of the culture around the particular conditions of English football in the 1980s, and particularly that culture as presented by the newspapers of the day. Same as how the Borogravian Army fights in pre-gunpowder style with pikes and bows, but its organisation and culture is that of the British Army circa 1880-1980; it clearly isn't the New Model Army, or the army that went to Agincourt. quote:It's about how camp-ball became association football, and my source for that is Terry himself. We can talk about the parallels if you like, especially the relationship between town and gown Please, feel free to expand. Part of the reason why I'm so interested is that for many other books, he did long interviews years later where he expanded on the themes of the book and where he was coming from, but I don't think he got to do that for Academicals. vvv there's a page on the L-Space Web, https://www.lspace.org/about-terry/interviews/index.html , although an annoyingly large section of it has succumbed to link rot; there's also a lot of him just generally gassing with fans on Usenet vvv Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Mar 18, 2019 20:18
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Trin Tragula posted:Please, feel free to expand. Part of the reason why I'm so interested is that for many other books, he did long interviews years later where he expanded on the themes of the book and where he was coming from, but I don't think he got to do that for Academicals. Got any links to these? I never really followed anything about the books when they were coming out, just bought them as they came out. I'd love to read stuff that expands on the books so if there's a big fat list of these things then that'd be great.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:24
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I reread Wintersmith every so often. It's a real good book.
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Mar 18, 2019 21:49
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Trin Tragula posted:Same as how the Borogravian Army fights in pre-gunpowder style with pikes and bows, but its organisation and culture is that of the British Army circa 1880-1980; it clearly isn't the New Model Army, or the army that went to Agincourt.
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Mar 18, 2019 23:52
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Post your Pratchett! My wife is wonderful so I have some stuff that means the world to me.  Highlights for me: A signed first editions of Snuff that my wife got me when I realized Terry would not be around forever.  Two Paul Kidby prints signed by Pratchett.   And a set of Royal Mail stamps from my first, longest, and favorite fantasy series’s. And also King Arthur? 
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Mar 19, 2019 01:30
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Snowmankilla posted:
 gently caress I'm jealous, those prints own. Kidby is the best. btw my wife also has some of those Paper Nano models above my Pratchett shelves 
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Mar 19, 2019 01:33
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Snow Cone Capone posted:
Nice! Those are actually Lego, but I have those and Hogwarts. My wife thinks it’s nerdy but cute.
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Mar 19, 2019 02:03
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Post your Pratchett!  Got most of them when I was in hospital for a few weeks, a few years ago. Powered through like fifteen in that time, great distraction.  A friend made these for a bunch of us a few years ago, still love it.
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Mar 19, 2019 03:04
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I think it's really fun how there's a million editions. We don't have a single printing in common! I'm gonna wild guess you're in the UK though?
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Mar 19, 2019 04:24
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iajanus posted:
Your friend is a saint, that's so cute and I'm jealous as all hell.
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Mar 20, 2019 13:44
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From the Tor newsletter. It's kind of worth a read?
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Mar 21, 2019 17:56
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I think it's really fun how there's a million editions. We don't have a single printing in common! I'm gonna wild guess you're in the UK though? Australia. We generally get the UK editions of most things.
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Mar 22, 2019 00:07
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  I’ve got the maps and the cut-out-and-build Unseen University somewhere, too. These cost me a pretty penny:  (£1 each)
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Mar 23, 2019 20:21
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wow e: I would give so much for those beers Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 20:34
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Taking a picture of all my Pratchetts would basically mean taking a picture of the whole bookcase as I arrange my books the only reasonable way, size  , so different printings are all over the place.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:38
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With our Pratchett collection, you can tell when I started reading the series because that's when it shifts from paperback to hardback. (My dad's too cheap to buy books in hardback; I'm too impatient to wait.)
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Mar 25, 2019 17:34
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The_White_Crane posted:With our Pratchett collection, you can tell when I started reading the series because that's when it shifts from paperback to hardback. (My dad's too cheap to buy books in hardback; I'm too impatient to wait.) The same tactic wouldn't work on my collection because I acquired a couple of the hardback re-releases as goodies at DWCons and I also had to replace my (loving signed) copy of Witches Abroad after my sister wrecked it. I started buying h/b with either MAA or SM, whichever was first.
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Mar 25, 2019 17:44
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For me you can tell more-or-less when I started reading Pratchett, because I bought all the paperbacks until there weren't anymore to buy/read, and then switched to HB as I caught up to the new releases. My 1st edition HBs of Good Omens and Night Watch were recent gifts, so I caught up at either Making Money or Unseen Academicals, whichever came first.
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Mar 25, 2019 17:45
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Jedit posted:The same tactic wouldn't work on my collection because I acquired a couple of the hardback re-releases as goodies at DWCons and I also had to replace my (loving signed) copy of Witches Abroad after my sister wrecked it. I started buying h/b with either MAA or SM, whichever was first. I have Interesting Times and Lords & Ladies signed, although L&L is missing the dust cover as you can see from my pic up there. I did have Wyrd Sisters with a personalised message from TP but when I worked in a call centre a colleague took my bag by mistake and, thinking it was his bag, saw the book and “thought his friends had put a bible in there as a joke” so then “tore it in half and threw it in the river”. Totally totally normal reactions. Who destroys a book without even looking what it is?
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Mar 25, 2019 18:31
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Sanford posted:I have Interesting Times and Lords & Ladies signed, although L&L is missing the dust cover as you can see from my pic up there. My signed Pratchetts are Thief of Time and Eric!
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Mar 25, 2019 18:54
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Alhazred posted:My signed Pratchetts are Thief of Time and Eric! Do you have that”official signature of...” stamp thing? Mine are just... signed. Edit: and I don’t mean L&L, it’s Witches Abroad that’s signed and missing the cover!
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Mar 25, 2019 18:57
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Sanford posted:I did have Wyrd Sisters with a personalised message from TP but when I worked in a call centre a colleague took my bag by mistake and, thinking it was his bag, saw the book and “thought his friends had put a bible in there as a joke” so then “tore it in half and threw it in the river”. Totally totally normal reactions. Who destroys a book without even looking what it is?
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Mar 25, 2019 19:00
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Sanford posted:Do you have that”official signature of...” stamp thing? Mine are just... signed. They are just signed. No stamps.
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Mar 25, 2019 19:40
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I have signed ankh-morpork and discworld maps. Unfortunately though they were in fold out booklets and he signed the front page of the booklets, not the actual maps, so I can't display them with the signatures >_<
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Mar 25, 2019 20:51
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I've Googled several methods of removing the creases from the map I have framed, but they all involve heat and it scares me that the ink will run or the paper will scorch or something 
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Mar 25, 2019 21:11
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I've Googled several methods of removing the creases from the map I have framed, but they all involve heat and it scares me that the ink will run or the paper will scorch or something Unless the ink is lard-based, heat can't make it run.
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Mar 25, 2019 21:15
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Mods please change my name to Lard-based Ink
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Mar 25, 2019 22:18
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Sanford posted:I did have Wyrd Sisters with a personalised message from TP but when I worked in a call centre a colleague took my bag by mistake and, thinking it was his bag, saw the book and “thought his friends had put a bible in there as a joke” so then “tore it in half and threw it in the river”. Totally totally normal reactions. Who destroys a book without even looking what it is?  How do you possibly make that mistake, too? Like, the Discworld covers are pretty colourful. I don't think I've ever seen any bibles that could possibly be mistaken for them even at a glance! Also, for that matter, just how big an rear end in a top hat do you have to be to tear a sacred book in half and throw it in the river? I'm an atheist and I wouldn't loving do that.
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Mar 27, 2019 12:18
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The_White_Crane posted:
It could have been the black and metal cover that came out just after the "Pretend You're Reading a Book For Grown-Ups" editions of Harry Potter.  Still no excuse, mind you.
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Mar 27, 2019 14:28
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Those covers look excellent on a Kindle, I changed them all to those on my digital Pratchett-reading device. Also someone made a really nice lockscreen image off the Kidby Death portrait, so I use that too 
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The_White_Crane posted:Also, for that matter, just how big an rear end in a top hat do you have to be to tear a sacred book in half and throw it in the river? I'm an atheist and I wouldn't loving do that. If you're an atheist, it's not sacred. It's just a book. I definitely understand tearing it in half; it's the river that deserves more respect.
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