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??? It says right on that page kindle edition $5.93 I've just finished dodger and it was jsut a bit meh. didn't really grab me the way nation did. fluppet fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 30, 2012 |
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Yes, you're right. Not only is Snuff sold out here, I can't even buy the digital version  I suppose I could get someone to gift a copy to me from the US store? The odd thing is that I actually do have a valid US delivery address that worked with digital game downloads, even with the billing address registered to my country. vvv: I can handle some techy stuff, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks! toasterwarrior fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Sep 30, 2012 |
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Sep 30, 2012 15:09
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You could buy the epub version but you would need to strip the drm to convert it to a kindle version. ebooks.com have it and they don't have any country specific restrictions as far as I am aware.
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Sep 30, 2012 16:41
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I'm clearing out some stuff I don't have room for and since the local libraries won't take donations, anyone want any hard cover versions of the following: Wee Free Men A Hat Full of Sky Wintersmith Going Postal Making Money Monstrous Regiment Unseen Academicals Thud Night Watch The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents All I'd ask for in return is shipping costs and give them a good home.
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Oct 1, 2012 18:59
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Where do you live that the libraries are well funded enough to turn away free books in reasonable condition?
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Oct 1, 2012 19:06
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Are you UK based? I'd love Wee Free Men and Monstrous Regiment!
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Oct 1, 2012 20:16
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Oh duh should have said where I am, I'm in the US. New York specifically and yeah, I don't know why they don't take donations either, it was surprising.
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Oct 1, 2012 23:55
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mirthdefect posted:Where do you live that the libraries are well funded enough to turn away free books in reasonable condition? It's not that uncommon that they don't have shelf-space for anything they didn't explicitly ask for, and their librarians don't usually have the time or inclination to sort through the trash of their entire public's throwing-out boxes. Not that they shouldn't have a complete selection of Pratchett books already, but whatever.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:39
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Local school, maybe?
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Oct 2, 2012 03:57
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See if someone has a Books for Prisons program near you.
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Oct 2, 2012 04:20
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If nothing else, talk to the library about alternatives. The Red Cross here in NZ collects books for a big sale once or twice a year; hopefully the library could suggest an alternative if only to prevent books being destroyed when they could still do good.
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mirthdefect posted:Where do you live that the libraries are well funded enough to turn away free books in reasonable condition? Where does he live that there are no charity bookshops? I worked in one once, and can tell you that if you stood outside a row of three of them and shouted "Anybody want some Pratchett books?" you'd be trampled to death by the onrushing staff. Every charity bookshop has an insatiable hunger for Pratchett books because they sell almost instantly at a good price.
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Oct 2, 2012 08:43
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Just finished Dodger. I really liked it. The last paragraph was awesome. It wasn't funny like the Discworld books, but it was a pretty neat idea, and it was executed well. The underground scenes are awesome - as someone who frequently went into my city's drainage system in the past, I can say that the descriptions are really well done.
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Oct 3, 2012 07:41
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I'm happy to see his non Discworld stuff being just as good still, I wish Terry luck in trying to do a few more of them for the future. Nobody creative likes being boxed in as that <thing> guy you know?
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I'll mention something in this thread for some feedback. I've been passing it along (quietly) amongst the Discworld fan community and would be curious to see what responses people get. I've been working on a bit of Discworld fanart. But not just one piece, a whole collection--I was inspired by how some of the earlier Discworld novels have been released in comicbook form. I was thinking of doing an entire novel in a comic format and giving it to the fandom via devianart or something similar. Maybe Men At Arms. Think it'd go over well?
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Mister Roboto posted:I'll mention something in this thread for some feedback. I've been passing it along (quietly) amongst the Discworld fan community and would be curious to see what responses people get. If it's done well, I'd think that most fans would enjoy it. Men At Arms is one of the better Discworld books and I would think it would translate well into a comic format. That said, what are the legal ramifications of just taking the story and making a comic? Edit for clarity: I have no idea what the legalities are, that was a question, not an "omg copyright" post.
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Mister Roboto posted:I'll mention something in this thread for some feedback. I've been passing it along (quietly) amongst the Discworld fan community and would be curious to see what responses people get. Not if you didn't ask permission first. Anything you adapt may already have had the rights sold.
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Jedit posted:Not if you didn't ask permission first. Anything you adapt may already have had the rights sold. Hm, fair enough. Wouldn't it fall under "parody" fair use? There's been many other works transposed to other mediums on deviantart that haven't been taken down. Offhand, I can think of a few video games that have been recreated in comic form and a few movies, too. This would obviously not be for any profit, and in fact I'd like to think it'd be my way of thanking Pratchett for all the years of entertainment. I realize this sounds arrogant before I say it, but hear me out, because we know he's a big internet fan himself and I think if the fanwork is good enough he'd probably get wind of it. Which is what I'd hope for.
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Mister Roboto posted:Hm, fair enough. Wouldn't it fall under "parody" fair use? There's been many other works transposed to other mediums on deviantart that haven't been taken down. Offhand, I can think of a few video games that have been recreated in comic form and a few movies, too. Also, Pratchett doesn't have a history of going after fan works, so you're probably safe. But you wouldn't have a chance in court, so if his publisher sends a C&D you'll need to take it down.
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Just thought I'd bring it up since it's been a while since we mentioned it, but the excellent BBC Radio Plays are up on Youtube. All the ones that were previously available on iPlayer have appeared (Guards!Guards!, Mort, Wyrd Sisters and Small Gods) but even better, a bunch of previously unreleased or hard-to-find ones have been collected, including Reaper Man and Night Watch!
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I need some help, after many years of reading Pratchett novels I have some fantastic memories of the novels but they are kind of blending in my head. I remember a book of a guy being led around, possibly with a chain, and he is kind of dumb but in the end it it turns out he is not dumb, he just he takes a long time to think things through. Might possibly have something to do with the priests of Om. I've been googling this for half a hour and getting nowhere, any help will be appreciated! Also just finished Dodger, my favorite Pratchett yet!
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snolliemonsters posted:I need some help, after many years of reading Pratchett novels I have some fantastic memories of the novels but they are kind of blending in my head. I remember a book of a guy being led around, possibly with a chain, and he is kind of dumb but in the end it it turns out he is not dumb, he just he takes a long time to think things through. Might possibly have something to do with the priests of Om. Small Gods.
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Oct 6, 2012 15:10
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Just started reading and I Shall Wear Midnight last night and I'm already 2/3 of the way through, I'm surprised how much I love the Tiffany Aching Books.
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Flipswitch posted:Just started reading and I Shall Wear Midnight last night and I'm already 2/3 of the way through, I'm surprised how much I love the Tiffany Aching Books. I just started them for the first time! I finished Wee Free Men yesterday and read the first couple of chapters of A Hat Full of Sky.
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Oct 6, 2012 15:18
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Tiffany is one of my favorite Pratchett characters. The bit in A Hat Full Of Sky with the hiver, where she's saying "help me" through it's speech, and Petunia asks "what's that?" and the hiver says "don't worry, it'll be gone soon" is loving chilling. Fairyland is awesome whenever they visit it, too. And the Nac Mac Feegle are utterly endearing. I'd leave a bottle of whisky out for them every single night if they'd show up at my house.
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An overlooked facet of Pratchett's genius is that he is able to write BOTH genders believably. Even Douglas Adams admitted he had trouble writing female characters.
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The thing that surprised me the most is the Young Readers tab and there's some drat grim things in these books.
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Jedit posted:Small Gods. Thanks!
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Flipswitch posted:The thing that surprised me the most is the Young Readers tab and there's some drat grim things in these books. It is a British thing. Dick King Smiths books love doing it too, and I can't remember the name but the trilogy with the fantasy mice was loving grim to read at twelve years old too.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It is a British thing. Dick King Smiths books love doing it too, and I can't remember the name but the trilogy with the fantasy mice was loving grim to read at twelve years old too. Robin Jarvis? Sounds like the Deptford Mice. Good books, but yeah very grim - I'm pretty sure reading them was what got me into horror novels. I'm not sure if it's an exclusively British thing, but there are several British authors who've gone that route - Roald Dahl's another good example. 'Young Adults' can handle some surprisingly mature subjects, really. Disney's been in the business of scaring kids for years, so most young teenagers are used to that sort of stuff.
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Flipswitch posted:The thing that surprised me the most is the Young Readers tab and there's some drat grim things in these books. Pterry once said that you can tell which of his books are written for kids because the kids' books are darker. Kids can cope with dark stuff. It's only adults who need escapism in their fantasy, because they deal with dark stuff in reality.
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Jedit posted:Pterry once said that you can tell which of his books are written for kids because the kids' books are darker. Kids can cope with dark stuff. It's only adults who need escapism in their fantasy, because they deal with dark stuff in reality. Seems accurate. Also, Kids like "dark" stuff. People underestimate their Innocent Little Angels' desire to see people hurt.
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I think he said that YA books are darker and the sex is less obvious.
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Oct 6, 2012 16:41
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Also, as it turns out, I am not the only Discworld fan doing a fancomic: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=discworld+comic#/dlk05q I like the cute note: Little sidenote: I ended up being able to personally hand both of these pages to Mr. Pratchett himself as a little showing of appreciation for how much his work has inspired me. He liked them. Edit: In fact there are at least 3 different fancomic versions of the books currently being done on Deviantart. Seems that many people had the same idea. Mister Roboto fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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Oct 6, 2012 16:51
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AlphaDog posted:Just finished Dodger. I really liked it. The last paragraph was awesome. How's the editing on it? Better than on some of his latest Discworld books?
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uXs posted:How's the editing on it? Better than on some of his latest Discworld books? It seemed fine to me. I remember wondering about the grammar at one point, but I'd misread a word.
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I've read them all, but I've never really been able to get into the Tiffany Aching books. But the strange thing is, I've never really been able to figure out why. I mean, Tiffany's an okay character, but...yeah. I'm not sure. I'm down to Sourcery and Moving Pictures as the last two Discworld books I've yet to read. Any general thoughts on their quality? Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Oct 7, 2012 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:I've read them all, but I've never really been able to get into the Tiffany Aching books. But the strange thing is, I've never really been able to figure out why. I mean, Tiffany's an okay character, but...yeah. I'm not sure. Sourcery isn't bad, but it's definitely got that "early discworld" feel. It's not nearly as polished as his later books, and a good chunk of the humor exists for its own sake, rather than the cutting satire we get later.
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ConfusedUs posted:Sourcery isn't bad, but it's definitely got that "early discworld" feel. It's not nearly as polished as his later books, and a good chunk of the humor exists for its own sake, rather than the cutting satire we get later. There's a lot of things done that are sensibly ignored in the following books. And reading it after reading later UU-centric stories is quite jarring.
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Tardigrade posted:There's a lot of things done that are sensibly ignored in the following books. And reading it after reading later UU-centric stories is quite jarring. True. In much the same way that Equal Rights is largely ignored.
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