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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. The event is deliberately glossed over because none of the wizards want to admit they were there. I think it's the Dean who is asked what he did during the business with the Sourcerer, and he claims to have been visiting his aunt in Psuedopolis.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted: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: Still available? Maybe we can chat about some of these. Got email?
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All still available, email address is nicholasile02(at)gmail.com, hit me up.
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Jedit posted:The event is deliberately glossed over because none of the wizards want to admit they were there. I think it's the Dean who is asked what he did during the business with the Sourcerer, and he claims to have been visiting his aunt in Psuedopolis. Also its implied somewhere that Ridcully was made Archchancellor because he was the one senior wizard who genuinely had nothing to do with the whole affair. What with being sat on the family estate communing with nature (WINGED THE BLIGHTER!).
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Ferrosol posted:Also its implied somewhere that Ridcully was made Archchancellor because he was the one senior wizard who genuinely had nothing to do with the whole affair. What with being sat on the family estate communing with nature (WINGED THE BLIGHTER!). Don't they specifically make him Archchancellor because they need a quiet period after Sourcery and they think he's simple enough that when they want to go back to the plotting/promotion by assassination ways they can just kill him?
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thebardyspoon posted:Don't they specifically make him Archchancellor because they need a quiet period after Sourcery and they think he's simple enough that when they want to go back to the plotting/promotion by assassination ways they can just kill him? Pretty much. They are wrong however, Ridcully is probably the wiliest of them all. I wish his brother was a more explored character.
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Oct 12, 2012 12:22
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Antinumeric posted:I wish his brother was a more explored character. Yeah, I always thought Pratchett missed out on a lot of good opportunities with Pope Ridcully. The contrasts could have been amazing, since Ridcully is the anti-atheist in all ways, since he flat out can prove Gods and magic exist, yet at the same time that's exactly NOT what the religious leaders want to hear, they want it all taken on faith and miracles, not proof and evidence. It'd be neat to read the religious debate like that, because such a debate can't happen in the roundworld.
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Well the old lightning bolt argument didn't work on Dorfl so he'll need more than just existence.
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Well, poo poo, pterry's actually doing signings today. I didn't bring anything. 
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Smiling Jack posted:Well, poo poo, pterry's actually doing signings today. I didn't bring anything. Have him sign your boobs.
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Smiling Jack posted:Well, poo poo, pterry's actually doing signings today. I didn't bring anything. He's still doing signings? Has his signature become a heavily squiggled T followed by a flat line yet?
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Goddamnit! Terry and Rob are 30 minutes away from me at the B&N in NYC right now. Why didn't I check my twitter feed earlier.
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I thought he was unable to sign anymore :S
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Hempuli posted:I thought he was unable to sign anymore :S Pterry didn't sign at the Convention because he was a big part of the schedule. At least 3 hours of events a day require his presence and activity, and he tries to be available to chat with the fans as well, but it's exhausting for him. A signing tour is different; then he does nothing but sign and briefly chat with people. I expect signing is restricted to one item per person, so combined with the talking he'll only be signing one or two books a minute. That's doable for a few hours, when he has nothing else to do and can sleep between stops. Edit: Just looked it up. The tour is only three talking stops - two in NYC, one in Chicago - and he will not be signing books at the events, though attendees will be able to get pre-signed bookplates.
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toasterwarrior posted: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. I'm quoting myself here in case anyone tries the same thing: nah, it doesn't work.  Oh well, at least I still got 8~ bucks worth of credit to spend on a book.
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Jedit posted:A signing tour is different; then he does nothing but sign and briefly chat with people. I expect signing is restricted to one item per person, so combined with the talking he'll only be signing one or two books a minute. That's doable for a few hours, when he has nothing else to do and can sleep between stops.
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Presto posted:When he was in DC on tour last year he wasn't signing at all; just using a stamp. I'm sure it is an awesomely unique stamp, remember that sword he had made from that rare meteor ore a year or so back?
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Yeah, if it's the same he used for the last few years, it's a pretty cool stamp :
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Do you guys find there any lines in any of Prathcetts book which just floor you? I've been reading Wintersmith and the one line with Tiffany's brother just cracks me up every time. "Tiffy hit fish go bang."
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boblemoche posted:Yeah, if it's the same he used for the last few years, it's a pretty cool stamp : There's shiny stickers now, what? I want a shiny sticker. Flipswitch posted:Do you guys find there any lines in any of Prathcetts book which just floor you? In Interesting Times, Rincewind has to deal with a bunch of sumo wrestlers. "That man has a ham sandwich." *points* "Oooaaaaa?" "With mustard on it." "Ooooaarrr!" *trundles increasingly towards putative sandwich* With mustard on it gets me every single time.
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The footnote in I Shall Wear Midnight about the meanings of leg positions in equestrian statuary had me in stitches.
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Flipswitch posted:Do you guys find there any lines in any of Prathcetts book which just floor you? The bit in Men at Arms where Carrot has a distinctly threatening/unthreatening conversation about the difference between an appointment and a morningstar kills me every time. "An appointment is an engagement to see someone, while a morningstar is a large lump of metal used for viciously crushing skulls. It is important not to confuse the two." In fact, that whole section of Men At Arms, from the visit to the armoury onwards is just so perfect it hurts.
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Just learned two things about Orcs and Goblins. Some people thought they came out of nowhere in Unseen Academicals and Snuff. As it turns out, they were indeed mentioned far earlier in the series: http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Triple_Orcthrust_with_Extra_Flip Orcs are considered deadly back in Sourcery, but clearly Pratchett didn't really feel the need to expand upon them as "deadly killing monsters" until now. As for Goblins, the gross Gnolls are said to be a type of Goblin, and they've been around since the early Guards books. I think it was because the references were so minor that people forgot them so their reappearance really did seem out of nowhere.
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Mister Roboto posted:Just learned two things about Orcs and Goblins. Even with that, they still came out of nowhere. I mean, if they were always ubiquitously feared like they were in Unseen Academicals, you'd think they'd have come up more often than the Necrotelecomnicon, for instance. I'm not saying a bit of retconning and world building is a bad thing, and Nutt is my favorite new Discworld character since Moist, but Orcs and Goblins were more of a reference to general DnD-style fantasy and less explicit races until Unseen. Up until then you could make a really good argument for them not even existing, given how much Pratchett loves the whole cross-contamination of ideas across universes. That was actually one of my favorite things about the Lore of Discworld; he basically invents an in-universe reason for him using whatever references he wants in order to make a joke, ala Death's bone cycle.
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Interview with Sir Pratchett where he talks about his health ( ), hints at some exciting casting news forthcoming for The Watch and probably more importantly, acknowledges plans for his daughter, Rhianna, to take over Discworld after his death. Apparently there's more of the interview in that week's New Statesman but I don't even live in the UK to find out. 
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quote:Pratchett's assistant of 12 years, Rob Wilkins, also reveals that earlier this month, the author suffered an atrial fibrillation in the back seat of a New York taxi. Were it not for emergency CPR, he would have died. Jesus, poor Terry. Nature give the poor old bugger a break already  .
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SeanBeansShako posted:Jesus, poor Terry. Nature give the poor old bugger a break already Granny was all set to break Death's arm. 
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I nominate whoever jumped in with the CPR for man or woman of the year.
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MacGyvers_Mullet posted:Even with that, they still came out of nowhere. I mean, if they were always ubiquitously feared like they were in Unseen Academicals, you'd think they'd have come up more often than the Necrotelecomnicon, for instance. They live in small groups in isolated areas of the furthest parts of Uberwald. I don't think we've even seen those areas in the novels.
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Autumncomet posted:Interview with Sir Pratchett where he talks about his health ( I do wonder if there will be a lot of (terrible) people crying out over a woman being said to be future writer of the series?
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Jesto posted:Why would you try to make it into a misogynistic issue? People don't care about the sex of the person writing the story, they care about whether or not the person can accurately meet the expectations set by the style, tone and vision of the original author. Most of Pratchett's readers seem pretty chill and I don't think are as rabid as Wheel of Time/Dune etc. I think most of us would agree that some Discworld is better than no Discworld at all. I'm not sure about any successful parent/child handovers but then again, I think it's hard for anyone to replace Pratchett.
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Everyone's just agreed at this point to pretend that whats-'is-name writing that awful HHGTTG sequel never happened, right?Jesto posted:Why would you try to make it into a misogynistic issue? Entropic fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Nov 15, 2012 |
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withak posted:I nominate whoever jumped in with the CPR for man or woman of the year. According to the article, that would be his assistant.
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LooseChanj posted:According to the article, that would be his assistant. Order of the Igor. Firtht Clathth
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LooseChanj posted:According to the article, that would be his assistant. Indeed, three cheers for Rob Wilkins who is one of the nicest people ever. 
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Willikins continues to surprise. I got my copy of the short story collection - has anyone else had issues with the pages getting wavy? Also, I never knew there was an ankh morpork national anthem until I read it. (And some sort of copyright mess preventing the ...legal... redistribution of it, I can't find details on the mess)
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Ika posted:Willikins continues to surprise. If you had read Night Watch (The best book in the series by the way) you'd even know a few lines of it.
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Ika posted:I never knew there was an ankh morpork national anthem until I read it. (And some sort of copyright mess preventing the ...legal... redistribution of it, I can't find details on the mess) There's no mess regarding redistribution of it, it's performances that are forbidden. The reason for that will probably be songwriter's royalties.
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