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Finally filled in the missing gap in my bookshelf. God drat whoever borrowed Men At Arms all those years ago and never gave it back. 
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iajanus posted:Finally filled in the missing gap in my bookshelf. God drat whoever borrowed Men At Arms all those years ago and never gave it back. Look, when you lend out a Pratchett book, you should accept up front that you're never going to see it again. It's the way of the world.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:44
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chiasaur11 posted:Look, when you lend out a Pratchett book, you should accept up front that you're never going to see it again. It's the way of the world. I've gone through probably four copies of Good Omens by now.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:48
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Pretty stoked about this. https://filmschoolrejects.com/good-omens-casting/
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chiasaur11 posted:Look, when you lend out a Pratchett book, you should accept up front that you're never going to see it again. It's the way of the world. He is after all the most shoplifted author.
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Whistling Death posted:Pretty stoked about this. Casting a POC as a hell demon would likely be problematic but I can't see why azira can't be anything other than white. I like Sheen but a posh POC angel would have been cool.
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tessiebee posted:Casting a POC as a hell demon would likely be problematic but I can't see why azira can't be anything other than white. I like Sheen but a posh POC angel would have been cool. I was just excited about Tennant. But if diversity just for the sake of diversity is your thing, rock on? No worries. I just don't see the need to seek out diversity just for the sake of diversity. Especially as Gaiman has already demonstrated he's cool with it, and really only the two leads have been announced. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Whistling Death fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 13:50
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Whistling Death posted:I was just excited about Tennant. But if diversity just for the sake of diversity is your thing, rock on? Meh, I don't think Pterry would have been adverse to a bit of diversity. It's not as if "posh, English and gay" is solely the province of white actors. I like Tennant too, so agree with you there.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:57
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Gaiman's working it, and has absolutely zero qualms about diverse casting (see Neverwhere and AmGods), so I'll happily give the benefit of the doubt there.
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Aug 22, 2017 15:12
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Liquid Communism posted:Gaiman's working it, and has absolutely zero qualms about diverse casting (see Neverwhere and AmGods), so I'll happily give the benefit of the doubt there. Fair enough! American God's was very good.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:07
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Reading Guards Guards and it went from funny to horrifying and I'm sitting here cold with anger towards humans. It is way too on point when it comes to humans rolling over for evil governments. Gods. What a good book.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Reading Guards Guards and it went from funny to horrifying and I'm sitting here cold with anger towards humans. Yeah, some of the books are enough to make me viscerally angry, especially with regard to particular events happening in the world. Jingo was another one that got a reaction.
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Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment do that to me too. Pratchett's work ought to be required reading in school. For both history and English.
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I really need to reread MR but I'm pretty sure it would have a similar effect. NW just made me sad, rather than angry (still my favourite book, though)
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The part where the Sams enter the jail in Cable Street is probably the darkest thing Pratchett ever wrote. You know a section is dark when a seven-foot-tall robed scythe-wielding skeleton is comic relief.
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I think the whole climax of Reaper Man is right up there with that Cable Street bit. “ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”
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The best part about reading Guards, Guards: I now feel eager and excited to read more Discworld right this instant. That book was really good, and I'm ready for the rest of Pratchett's stuff now! The worst part about reading G,G: I'm on a trip and it'll still be a few days before I can get back home to the Discworld books I own. I have other books, but it's not quite the same.... (On the other hand I get some time to decide if I'm doing Equal Rites, Color of Magic*, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, or whatever the next Night Watch book is next. There are so many different directions to go in the series and it all sounds neat.) *Color of Magic was the first Discworld book I read years and years ago and it single-handedly stopped me from reading the rest of the series... except that I bought Guards Guards roughly five years ago, tried it, and bounced off. Apparently my sense of humor and reading taste have improved since then, and, well, I'd like to revisit CoM, see how it flows.
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CoM (or The Light Fantastic) are not really representative to Pratchett, he doesn't hit his stride until the 3th or 4th book. I'd recommend skipping
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Yeah, they were basically when Discworld was just a parody of fantasy tropes instead of doing it's own thing. I'd come back to then when your done with the bulk of the good stuff, or try and read the comics they are based on. Avoid the SKY movie though. It's shite. Duckula was a good Albert but a terrible Rincewind.
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Liquid Communism posted:I think the whole climax of Reaper Man is right up there with that Cable Street bit. This part of Reaper Man and the bit at the end of Hogfather, when Death talks to Susan about the Sun rising, these are my favourite Death moments.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment do that to me too. Pratchett's work ought to be required reading in school. For both history and English. If you need to read Pratchett to get the points across, you're probably not in a normal class anyway.
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Aug 24, 2017 08:56
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Tough poo poo, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tough poo poo, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job! Yeah well we all know that was just his horrible porn HDD.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tough poo poo, dementia researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tough poo poo, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job! Humor until the end. Alhazred posted:He is after all the most shoplifted author. Theft is the highest form of admiration.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tough poo poo, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job! Quite fitting. Surprised he was using an IDE drive. I'm assuming his backups were all nuked quietly beforehand.
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Good choice, stylish, I would have chosen fire though.
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I bought The shepherd's crown the moment it was published, but until last week it sat unread in my kindle. I couldn't get myself to read what would be the last discworld book I could ever read. This week on a holiday I finally pushed myself to do it, fighting tears in the second chapter, finishing the book in two days. It was clearly unfinished, but it was a good way to end the series. Time to start again from the beginning, I read most of the first books in dutch when I was still pretty young so it will be nice to read them in their original language now.
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kanonvandekempen posted:I bought The shepherd's crown the moment it was published, but until last week it sat unread in my kindle. I couldn't get myself to read what would be the last discworld book I could ever read. This week on a holiday I finally pushed myself to do it, fighting tears in the second chapter, finishing the book in two days. It was clearly unfinished, but it was a good way to end the series. I have it too, I'm waiting till MarkReads gets to it.
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I've never read Men At Arms. Somehow I just missed it the first time I was going through Discworld, and I've never done a full re-read of the whole series, though I've read most of them multiple times. So I've got one single Discworld book left for me to read. And I kind of don't want to read it, because that'll mean I never get to read a new Disc book ever again.
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cptn_dr posted:I've never read Men At Arms. Somehow I just missed it the first time I was going through Discworld, and I've never done a full re-read of the whole series, though I've read most of them multiple times. If you missed that one you missed others. Last Hero maybe, the Tiffany Aching books, etc. Plus each book is a new book each time you reread it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Plus each book is a new book each time you reread it. So true. A lot of the Discworld books, I only read once, over twenty years ago. I have an unusually good memory but that's still a super long time and I need to do a whole series re-read soon.
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A full reread is a daunting task. I started one a while ago and about halfway through I actually got a little sick of them and had to take a break. Its like you can't eat your favourite food for every meal for weeks on end.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If you missed that one you missed others. Last Hero maybe, the Tiffany Aching books, etc. Nope, I've read them all, except that one. Including Science of Discworld and all the short stories, and But I totally agree with you about each one being new every time. Edit: Though I admit that I skipped over the Science chapters and just read the Discworld chapters. Because I was young and impatient. cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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sfwarlock posted:I have it too, I'm waiting till MarkReads gets to it. I'd not heard of this guy before, but I cannot stand that writing style of random CAPITALISATIONS. Is there a more soberly written Discworld re-read/ readthrough out there?
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I finally pulled the trigger a couple of days ago and it has just arrived.  Right in the Feelings.
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Liquid Communism posted:I think the whole climax of Reaper Man is right up there with that Cable Street bit. And at the end of all stories Azrael, who knew the secret, thought: I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN. Best final line of a book I've ever read. Reaper Man isn't generally regarded in the top tier of Discworld books, but it's a top fiver for me personally. e: And actually two of my personal all time favorite one-off quotes are from Thief of Time, one for pure comedy and the other for funny-because-it's-true value: quote:The dojo master stood up. "Hold!" he commanded. "Do you not want to know the name of the man you are about to destroy?" quote:Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything just to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-world switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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Gambrinus posted:I'd not heard of this guy before, but I cannot stand that writing style of random CAPITALISATIONS.
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