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freebooter posted:I know it's wrong but I still pronounce it "AN Gyoo Ah" in my head. That's how the audiobooks do it.
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So something I only realised while re-reading Raising Steam, the missing link between Anoia having gone from a volcano goddess to things that rattle in drawers - it's the smell of sulfur. She's a massive fart joke.
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Pidmon posted:So something I only realised while re-reading Raising Steam, the missing link between Anoia having gone from a volcano goddess to things that rattle in drawers - it's the smell of sulfur. She's a massive fart joke.  I always just thought it was some funny quirky weird thing but that...seems like exactly the kind of pun he'd do.
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Reene posted:
The phrasing being a bit worse than normal in Raising Steam was what tipped me off because it straight up said 'things that get stuck in YOUR drawers' rather than the 'rattle your drawers' type thing from previous books.
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Just got and am reading A Slip Of The Keyboard, a collection of Pratchett's assorted nonfiction fragments. Mostly writing about writing. Vastly entertaining and you should read it.
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divabot posted:Just got and am reading A Slip Of The Keyboard, a collection of Pratchett's assorted nonfiction fragments. Mostly writing about writing. Vastly entertaining and you should read it. This and A Blink of the Screen are both really very good. Pterry was obnoxiously talented even as a 13 year old.
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Jedit posted:I just finished The Long Utopia. It was OK, but the ending felt rushed. This works as a review of any of the Long Earth books, IMO.
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Sanford posted:This works as a review of any of the Long Earth books, IMO. ehh, they were fine. I read the first one twice, the others once. Haven't read the last yet, just got and will do so shortly. Probably not twice though. They're workmanlike chunks of SF prose with nice ideas, just ehh not loaded with Pratchett sparkle. ehh.
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I decided to start Monstrous Regiment because it seemed fairly standalone, and I was a huge fan of Pratchett's take on soldiers and war in Jingo. When suddenly: Vimes!  I thought I had read all the Vimes there was and I am so excited to see there is more out there!
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YggiDee posted:Agnes Nitt (and Perdita) was one of my favourite parts of Carpe Jugulum and I kinda wish she was in more books. Or at least showed up. Or was ever mentioned ever again.
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NorgLyle posted:My version of this complaint is Sacharissa Cripslock from The Truth. I wanted the media to become the new Watch (which would also have allowed Vimes to be written as an antagonist more often -- a role where he could have shined).
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Jul 22, 2015 11:57
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm pretty sure this didn't happen because William de Word is not an interesting character
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Does anyone else think Moist has kind of made himself into an avatar-for-hire accidentally with his dying words? You've obviously got the god of the post office in Going Postal but he's also got the hat with money on it making him in Uncle Pennyworth or whoever the mascot for monopoly is, then in Raising Steam he's both being manipulated into being an angel of vengance for the goblins but also a high priest of the goddess incarnate of trains.
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This just in: Monstrous Regiment is loving great. And Jackrum is...great? I'm only half way in or so, but yeah. Also the return of the boring guy from The Truth you guys just mentioned!
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VagueRant posted:This just in: Monstrous Regiment is loving great. And Jackrum is...great? Since this is almost my favorite novel by Terry Pratchett, I am immensely pleased by these updates. Jackrum, well...Jackrum's definitely not a boring man to read about 
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Monstrous Regiment is one of my favourites.
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My best friend has read some Discworld and likes them to varying degrees (she has read all of the Watch series and loved them, read 3 of the Witches books and wasn't too fond of them for some reason). Tomorrow I'm giving her her birthday present which consists of The Truth and Monstrous Regiment. I hope she likes them both as much as I did 
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Obviously I quite like the character Jackrum. Still no bloody clue what happened to my Monstrous Regiment paperback, It seems to have vanished?
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Jul 26, 2015 15:15
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm pretty sure this didn't happen because William de Word is not an interesting character, and the book's interesting characters both die at the end. I was sort of alright with De Word until the end whe he uses his inherited privilege to blackmail Slant. Much love for the New Firm though.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I was sort of alright with De Word until the end whe he uses his inherited privilege to blackmail Slant.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Still no bloody clue what happened to my Monstrous Regiment paperback, It seems to have vanished? Did you look under the couch?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Obviously I quite like the character Jackrum. That's why you keep them in chains.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm pretty sure he used the recording Mr. Pin made to blackmail Slant. He did, but the prose makes it crystal clear that the whole ending of the Truth is De Word casting off his everyman facade and stepping full force into the power and privilege offered by his family name for the sake of getting what he wants. This is portrayed as a positive act, cause he wants to do something good with that power, but I can easily see how someone would have a negative interpretation of those events. Edit: And I agree that, while The Truth spawned a number of interesting characters, De Word is not among them and wouldn't have been a good subject for an extended series. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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withak posted:Did you look under the couch? I searched everywhere. It must have gotten lost in the move a few years back 
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Stick a ladle in a drawer and pray to Anoia. She helps find things lost things.
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Screw you guys, The Truth is a great Discworld book and would have made a better Sky TV movie than any of the three they made.
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shadok posted:Screw you guys, The Truth is a great Discworld book and would have made a better Sky TV movie than any of the three they made. It was and excellent book! Pin and Tulip were some of Prachett's best heavies, with up there with Teatime and Carcer. Otto was an excellent addition to his menagerie of humanized monsters, and the dwarfs were good as they always are. The book covered civic and social bureaucracy, which was one of Prachett's strong suits (I maintain that the Vimes' rumination of the knife-edge operation of Ankh-Morpork in Night Watch is one of the best things he's ever written.) William De Worde just wasn't a terribly... broad character. He like fancy words and hates his daddy, and that's about it. He was fine as the lead in a one-off, but he didn't really have enough arc to support multiple books. None of Moist's terminal thrill-hounding, Vimes' over-boiled cynicism or Tiffany's determination to fix every. single. thing.
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It was -ing great and "I've got my potato."
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SeanBeansShako posted:I searched everywhere. It must have gotten lost in the move a few years back It might have gotten eaten. Do any of your other books look thicker than they were before?
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The second half of The Light Fantastic is better than the first half and all of The Colour of Magic, combined. Nearly done with these now. I think Going Postal will be my next DW book  ,
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Eh, Mort? Book four and Terry gets to grips with this thing they call plot.
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Gnome de plume posted:It might have gotten eaten. Do any of your other books look thicker than they were before? We joke, but I found a few pages of my long vanished Soul Music on the ground the other day....
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I finally decided to start my Discworld reread after finding a cheap copy of The Colour of Magic in a second-hand store two weeks ago. It's been years, nearly a decade in some cases, since I read most of them. I'm already up to Mort and it's noticeable just how much of an improvement it is over the first three books. Looking forward to the start of the Watch books though, they were always among my favourites before Tiffany Aching came along.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Obviously I quite like the character Jackrum. I have a spare hardback copy you can have at a cost of no pounds if you want it.
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Sanford posted:I have a spare hardback copy you can have at a cost of no pounds if you want it. Thank you for the offer but I need softback version as my shelf is pretty much straining under the weight of the books I've already got. I'm sure it'll show up, going through a clean up of the house.
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Speaking as someone who has, at this point, built furniture out of books (Don't worry, I'm talking structural, there are covering layers), I am shaking my head at you. It's not like I'm angry or anything, I'm just disappointed, SeanBeansShako. Granted, I say this as someone who has three copies of TekWar by William Shatner (In different formats!) but, still...
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SeanBeansShako posted:Thank you for the offer but I need softback version as my shelf is pretty much straining under the weight of the books I've already got. I'm sure it'll show up, going through a clean up of the house. I could tear the covers off for you if that will help
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