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No one will speak for Death? Specifically Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather and Thief of Time, but after that I'd go for the Witches, Witches Abroad and Maskerade are two of my favourite Discworld books.
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CHRISTOPHER LEE HAS ALREADY PLAYED DEATH. IAN RICHARDSON HAS ALREADY PLAYED DEATH. WHAT DO YOU WANT, RUTGER HAUER MURDERING A ROTTI?
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Jun 27, 2013 00:59
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Mister Roboto posted:The Witches are pretty good. Self-contained issues. Reaper Man and Mort are good, though Reaper Man suffers from a terrible B plot. Vengeance of Pandas posted:No one will speak for Death? DEATH SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
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Jun 27, 2013 00:59
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sebmojo posted:Reaper Man and Mort are good, though Reaper Man suffers from a terrible B plot. I don't know if I'd call Reaper Man's B plot terrible, flawed yeah but if they had removed one element and kept the B plot to Windle and the support group it would have been a nice mirror to the main plot and a lot more entertaining.
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Jun 27, 2013 01:05
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Mort, Reaper Man and Hogfather are absolutely fantastic, but the Witches are my favorite series (even over the Watch). The interactions between Esme and Everyone Else In The World just rock.
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:I don't know if I'd call Reaper Man's B plot terrible, flawed yeah but if they had removed one element and kept the B plot to Windle and the support group it would have been a nice mirror to the main plot and a lot more entertaining. It was supposed to be a dawn of the dead parody, it just kinda failed utterly.
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Jun 27, 2013 01:30
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AlphaDog posted:Matt Frewer looks like my impression of Vimes. My life for you!
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Jun 27, 2013 02:17
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After watching Game of Thrones, Stephen Dillane as Stannis is basically how I picture Vimes in my head now.
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Jun 27, 2013 09:17
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sebmojo posted:Reaper Man and Mort are good, though Reaper Man suffers from a terrible B plot. Windle Poons learning what it means to live is kinda 
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So getting into The Long War Right now, and it's pretty good. Definitely more Baxter than Pratchett, but there's some things that shine through. Airship crewmember that insists on being called Bosum Higgs? Hah.
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Jun 28, 2013 18:26
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precision posted:
They did? Cool, I thought it had crawled away and died somewhere. I really wonder what format they'll use and which characters. And what time period.
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Jun 29, 2013 19:03
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Reading Unseen Academicals right now. It's so sad to see what happened to Terry's ability to turn a phrase. This reads like a rough draft. Prior to this I read Pyramids and thought it was amazing. MartingaleJack fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 18:08
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BananaNutkins posted:Reading Unseen Academials right now. I remeber reading an old inteview in SFX magazine, where Terry talked about his writing process: "Write fast, edit hard" was how he did it. I guess editing text is impossible now, and it seems like no one else dares do it for him either.
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There's a line in a Watch book (I think) along the lines of "It wasn't a happy hour, it was more like an ecstatic hundred and forty minutes". Can anyone give me the exact line? Thanks.
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Jul 3, 2013 05:15
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sebmojo posted:Reaper Man and Mort are good, though Reaper Man suffers from a terrible B plot. I don't know man, I laughed every time the Dean shouted "Yo!" and shot a fireball at a demonic shopping cart. 
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Gambrinus posted:There's a line in a Watch book (I think) along the lines of "It wasn't a happy hour, it was more like an ecstatic hundred and forty minutes". Can anyone give me the exact line? Thanks. I know that it's from Feet of Clay, but I don't have my copy on hand, sorry.
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"Not so much Happy Hour," said Colon miserably. "More sort of Ecstatic One Hundred and Fifty Minutes. I didn't even know you could buy gin in pints."
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Helmacron posted:"Not so much Happy Hour," said Colon miserably. "More sort of Ecstatic One Hundred and Fifty Minutes. I didn't even know you could buy gin in pints." The latter part being an entirely separate joke, as gin was at one time served in pints. It was a cheap, easily watered drink for the poor.
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I haven't actually read the book, I just have them all on my iPad.
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Helmacron posted:"Not so much Happy Hour," said Colon miserably. "More sort of Ecstatic One Hundred and Fifty Minutes. I didn't even know you could buy gin in pints." Thanks!
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Jedit posted:The latter part being an entirely separate joke, as gin was at one time served in pints. It was a cheap, easily watered drink for the poor. I wonder how lethal gin would be watered down with the crust of the river Ankh?
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I think my favourite watch quote will always be "They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
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Jul 3, 2013 15:48
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SeanBeansShako posted:I wonder how lethal gin would be watered down with the crust of the river Ankh? In that case, it would be the Ankh being watered down by the gin.
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John Dough posted:In that case, it would be the Ankh being watered down by the gin. Explains how they actually drink the stuff from that river. I guess the gin loosens the crust of it enough.
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Patchwork Shaman posted:I think my favourite watch quote will always be "They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt." This is my personal favourite too.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Explains how they actually drink the stuff from that river. I guess the gin loosens the crust of it enough. Any water that's been filtered by so many bladders *has* to be pure. 
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 Facebook says that the next Discworld novel, "Raising Steam," will be published October 24. Apparently it is about trains.
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Charles Dance is the ultimate Vetinari and I wont here it any other drat way. In other news, quote:**EXCITING BREAKING NEWS**
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withak posted:
Trains? Well gosh we never saw that coming. I have a feeling that he's been so massively Moist-heavy is because the Industrial Revolution was a story that he really wanted to tell and now time is ticking he's hurrying through them in one big slam rather than taking his time with other characters along the way. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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I think I figured out what's wrong with Unseen Academicals. It's at least three Discworld books mashed into one. Oh sure he tries to have all the plots fit together, but it's an awkward fit. It's super long and easily could have been broken up into "the one about football" and "the one about Nutt/Glenda/Juliet" with very few alterations. e: Oh poo poo, now I'm wondering if the uneditied versions of all the past Disc books were just as long and had tonnes more subplot than they already do... and I kind of want to read that. 
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MikeJF posted:Trains? Well gosh we never saw that coming. Moist is also a Vetinari-lite character who manipulates others and gets things done. Which is the character you want to tell stories about breaking up established power structures and creating new order.
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In "How did I never notice that before" news, I've just re-read Feet of Clay. And I'm kicking myself over missing this before:quote:"We can rebuild him," Carrot said hoarsely. "We have the pottery."
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Staggy posted:In "How did I never notice that before" news, I've just re-read Feet of Clay. And I'm kicking myself over missing this before: I like what they do when they fix him, which is alter his chem with the instructions: 1) Serve the public trust. 2) Protect the innocent. 3) Seriously prod buttock.
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Jul 7, 2013 21:25
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Pretty sure he doesn't have a chem at that point, the clay remembers after all.
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MikeJF posted:Trains? Well gosh we never saw that coming. I think I'll flick through it at the book store, but I'm not sure I can take the drop in quality. It makes me sad, particularly as I loved the other two Moist books.
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I would have preferred Raising Taxes. I think there's just a lot more satire and funny to be mined out of that premise than "trains". e: Oh, unless Moist gets made Tax-Man in order to get the money to make the trains, which kinda sounds fairly plausible now that I think about it.
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precision posted:I would have preferred Raising Taxes. I think there's just a lot more satire and funny to be mined out of that premise than "trains". thats pretty much what it was always going to be even when the title was raising taxes
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precision posted:I would have preferred Raising Taxes. I think there's just a lot more satire and funny to be mined out of that premise than "trains".
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This one's gonna probably be very much a pastiche of the London Underground and associated culture and drama surrounding that (especially with the mine symbol being the underground symbol) so it's probably gonna sound less appealing to non-brits.Vengeance of Pandas posted:Pretty sure he doesn't have a chem at that point, the clay remembers after all. WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN
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I just managed to find and finish a copy of the Wee Free Men, and having read all the Tiffany Aching books apart from that, I can't believe I missed the fact that "Miss Tick" sounds like "mystic". Which Pratchett points out in the very first book of the sub-series.
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