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As an audiobook listener, I have ONLY just discovered that Detritus's weapon is written as the "piecemaker". The only other one I know I missed was "gilt by association".
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The best bit about re-reading Discworld book is playing spot the joke you missed previously. I'm on another burner through the Watch series and am thoroughly enjoying it despite being the 4th or 5th time I've read them all now.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Obviously I quite like the character Jackrum.
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VagueRant posted:Okay, now that I have finished that book I can finally ask - that scary horror-movie face is meant to be Jackrum?! Why does it look like a nightmare monster that will eat me while laughing? Monsterous Regiment posted:The fire gleamed off Jackrum’s triumphal face. In the red glow his little dark eyes were like holes in space, his grinning mouth the gateway to a hell, his bulk some monster from the Abyss.
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Aug 3, 2015 15:39
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Hah, that is the exact part that made me put a question mark when I described him as great. (The rest of the book answered the question that he was, indeed, great.) Even so, the render looks far more evil than it should...to me at least.
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VagueRant posted:Okay, now that I have finished that book I can finally ask - that scary horror-movie face is meant to be Jackrum?! Why does it look like a nightmare monster that will eat me while laughing? I got it from some female 3D modeling art students blog where she basically was practicing anatomy and during that she did a few Discworld characters. I assume she just skimmed through the book. Also, yes I am using some of that quote above when I no longer need to link to that thread.
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sebmojo posted:This is me too, though I got probated for saying that earlier in the thread, haha. Poor bugger just wasn't very good at writing in the latter stages of his illness Less that and more that Pterry's writing style included exhaustive iterative revision. He couldn't do that anymore, and it shows in his later books, as they are a lot less polished. Skippy McPants posted: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.) The New Firm are even better if you're familiar with where they come from. Gaiman's Neverwhere, to be precise, in the form of Mssrs. Croupe and Vandemar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIRE3Zuyyy4 Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 21:44
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Decided it was time to read another of these after a break. I went to the store to pick up the next in the Watch series, Jingo, but they were out so I got Reaper Man instead (I have read Mort). Wish me luck.
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Reaper Man has been my favourite out of the 15 I've read so far, and where the title quote comes from. You won't be disappointed. Plus there are wizard shenanigans, which is fun too.
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Aug 8, 2015 01:55
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A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and it is amazing http://i.imgur.com/5BH6WYw.jpg I think my favorite is Vimes in pajamas with a dragon.
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Aug 8, 2015 16:27
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ConfusedUs posted:A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and it is amazing That's awesome. Though it reminds me that it always kinda bugged me that despite being so accurate most of the time, Kidby always gives the Watch sandals. Mainly because Vimes had a thing about his boots.
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MikeJF posted:That's awesome. In fairness, Guards! Guards! did distinctly described the Watch as wearing sandals. Probably got new boots once Vetinari was convinced they would be an important part of A-M society at the end of that book.
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MikeJF posted:That's awesome.
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Oh my god I want all of them. All of them. Kind of sad Polly or De Worde aren't there  . Or the New Firm. SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Oh my god I want all of them. All of them. http://shop.microartstudio.com/discworld-miniatures-c-48.html
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Agnes who? What? Nuts? What are you even talking about, that's not a real character.
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toasterwarrior posted:In fairness, Guards! Guards! did distinctly described the Watch as wearing sandals. Probably got new boots once Vetinari was convinced they would be an important part of A-M society at the end of that book. Ah, okay, fair point.
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Snowmankilla posted:I am going to go broke. I really would like to make a chess set out of these, but we're talking 32 figurines at 8-12 euros each. So it's not happening. But man, I gotta have Vimes as the Queen for the A-M side.
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Aug 8, 2015 18:52
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drat, I really want a Vetinari and a Vimesy. But they come unpainted  .
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ConfusedUs posted:I really would like to make a chess set out of these, but we're talking 32 figurines at 8-12 euros each. So it's not happening. The A-M side would have the patrician as the king and 15 pawns.
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Here's my disagreeable rankings of the Discworld books so far for no particular reason: Best of the best: Jingo, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment Great: Mort, Going Postal, Guards! Guards! Good: The Truth, Small Gods, the rest of the Death series, almost the rest of the Watch series Less good: Snuff. And now I'm starting Equal Rites. Oh dear, it's got that very Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy silliness that was in Guards! Guards! and probably the earlier books, hopefully it too will pull through that. Also a female narrator, which is super unusual - though it cuts to a man for Death. immediate edit: nah, had to bump up Guards! Guards!
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I thought Monstrous Regiment ended on a pretty weak note. I did not like the "OH EVERYBODY IN THE COMMAND IS A WOMAN" twist. Jackrum as a woman was good, I could buy one of the high command, but all of them? Meh.
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Khizan posted:I thought Monstrous Regiment ended on a pretty weak note. I did not like the "OH EVERYBODY IN THE COMMAND IS A WOMAN" twist. Jackrum as a woman was good, I could buy one of the high command, but all of them? Meh.
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Aug 8, 2015 23:35
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I remember way too many details about these books.
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Ika posted:The A-M side would have the patrician as the king and 15 pawns. Plus the other five you didn't notice.
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"Huh gee I wonder how we could make a Discworld version of chess," he said, walking past a hardcover copy of Thud on his bookshelf.
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VagueRant posted:Here's my disagreeable rankings of the Discworld books so far for no particular reason: WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN. 
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FactsAreUseless posted:"Huh gee I wonder how we could make a Discworld version of chess," he said, walking past a hardcover copy of Thud on his bookshelf. To be fair it's already a thing.
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There was another type in some book (men at arms, maybe? something with assassins) that was just chess but with two extra rows on each side that only an assassin piece could move through.
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ConfusedUs posted:A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and it is amazing Man. Does anyone else kind of want to get Cohen and make him the general for a Chaos army? If I could be bothered playing/spending money on Warhammer these days, I would totally do that.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Agnes who? What? Nuts? What are you even talking about, that's not a real character. She could easily have two, one as a witch-turned-dhampir and one as the female lead in phantom of the opera.
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They have Cheery! ... Needs a Formal Cheery, though--like from The Fifth Elephant (iirc), sequined axe cozy and all
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Ranking talk got me looking up quotes from the Watch books. (Tragically formatted for TV Tropes)quote:Colon: Hright! This, men, is your truncheon, also nomenclatured your night stick or baton of office. Hand you will look after hit! You will eat with hit, you will sleep with hit, you —
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Let's have it properly, shall we? That whole scene deserves it; the narratorial interjections are pure artistry.quote:'Hright,' said Sergeant Colon, 'this, men, is your truncheon, also nomenclatured your night stick or baton of office.' He paused while he tried to remember his army days, and brightened up. 'Hand you will look after hit,' he shouted. 'You will eat with hit, you will sleep with hit, you—' I could read that all day, and indeed I have.
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Trin Tragula posted:Let's have it properly, shall we? That whole scene deserves it; the narratorial interjections are pure artistry.
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Trin Tragula posted:Let's have it properly, shall we? That whole scene deserves it; the narratorial interjections are pure artistry. Some other random lines I saw, some that are again tragically mis-formatted. I hope it's not too many to quote, I can edit or whatever. quote:"A person like you thinks that there are good men and bad men...There are, always and only, bad men - but some of them are on different sides." On the Piecemaker: quote:“I hope you keep that thing maintained,” said Nobby. “Them things were a bugger for metal fatigue. Especially on the safety catch.” quote:Boffo: Have- have you got an appointment? quote:Vimes: Then it's something we're not seeing, drat it! People are dead, Captain! Mrs. Easy's dead! quote:Vimes: 'I've given that viewpoint a lot of thought, sir, and reached the following conclusion: arseholes to the lot of 'em, sir.' quote:Vetinari: Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you. quote:Prince Cadram: Well, Mr Samuel, when I raise my hand, the men behind me will cut you d- quote:He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew... Then it was too high. History finds a way? Well, it would have to come up with something good, because it was up against Sam Vimes now. There's so many Night Watch quotes beyond that. God, Vimes is so loving good.
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Has anyone read "The Long Earth" series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter? The premise is basically humans suddenly discover they can step into alternate parallel worlds without any humans in them, so they start colonizing these places and exploring and building new societies. But I just can't adjust to the premise that instead of corporations mining these worlds for resources and making humans very comfortable, a huge amount of the population decides to settle these new worlds like old-school pioneers; farming and making stuff like candles and tools from scratch. C'mon, there's no way people are going to give up modern comforts to live like that. Why would they? It would kill real estate prices though. I could build a nice house on Earth-2 in the middle of New York City and commute every day to Earth-1 NYC in one step.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:52
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Well at one point departing to join the pioneer lifestyle became non-optional
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For pretty much the same reasons they gave up creature comforts in the land grabs that happened in reality: because of the ability to own whatever the gently caress land they want and have whatever kind of government they want, combined with the lure of potentially cool poo poo out there. The long game would end up with everyone having modern stuff anyway, though, because the technology to build all that infrastructure already exists. It just has to be gradually set up on the new earths.
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