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I just started on Unseen Academicals, and the dedication at the start - to the fellow who typed most of the book - made me really sad.
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It's the tides of life, old son.
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Jun 26, 2010 10:45
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The best part of UA was Nutt or whoever trying to explain the offsides rule. I couldn't understand it at all  .
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Jun 26, 2010 21:36
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John Charity Spring posted:I just started on Unseen Academicals, and the dedication at the start - to the fellow who typed most of the book - made me really sad. Wilkins is featured in BBC's documentary on Pratchett's illness, it's heartbreaking to see his concern.
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Jun 27, 2010 05:40
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To the people I talked to RE: sending you some books, I've been busy but I'm going to try and mail them out tomorrow/Monday.
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Jun 27, 2010 06:21
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BlueGrot posted:Wilkins is featured in BBC's documentary on Pratchett's illness, it's heartbreaking to see his concern. That documentary was very sad. But it gave him and many other sufferers a little hope when he had a good look at some of the possible cures.
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Jun 27, 2010 13:48
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False hopes imo, he is now considering assisted suicide when it gets too severe.
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Jun 27, 2010 21:57
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Unfortunately, eating the arse out of a dead mole seems not to have slowed the progression.
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Jun 27, 2010 22:05
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Has he started collecting cats yet?
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Jun 27, 2010 22:22
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John Dough posted:Has he started collecting cats yet? Death likes cats, thats why they have nine lives.
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Jun 28, 2010 01:17
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BlueGrot posted:I'm 4/5ths through Unseen Academicals and I'm sad to say it's one of his lesser books, some nice bits though. Nutt is a good character who should be used in other books. That wasn't Vetinari, it was his body double from The Truth damnit!
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Jul 4, 2010 02:34
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 Since December I've been reading the Discworld books and enjoying them immensely, but unfortunately my copy of "Hogfather" has a slight issue. Pages 145-192 are entirely missing, having been replaced by pages 257-304. The rest of the book is fine, going from 193 to the end, including the normal set of 257-304.I'm not really a big book reader, so I have no idea what to do with this. Is this a known issue with a certain print? Send an e-mail to the store/publisher? Or just get a new copy as it's not worth the hassle? Also, will I miss out on much in future books if I skip this one for the moment? The books were bought in London and I'm from Belgium, so I can't really hop over to get a new copy 
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Jul 4, 2010 16:23
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nimby posted:The books were bought in London and I'm from Belgium, so I can't really hop over to get a new copy Have you looked at http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780552145428/Hogfather? It's a UK based online bookstore with free worldwide shipping which I've been using for quite some time.
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Jul 4, 2010 16:39
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nimby posted:I'm not really a big book reader, so I have no idea what to do with this. Is this a known issue with a certain print? Send an e-mail to the store/publisher? Or just get a new copy as it's not worth the hassle? Get in touch with the publisher. I'm pretty sure I've heard of that exact issue with Hogfather before.
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Jul 4, 2010 16:56
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nimby posted:Also, will I miss out on much in future books if I skip this one for the moment? The books were bought in London and I'm from Belgium, so I can't really hop over to get a new copy I wouldn't say you would. I don't believe any of the other arcs have much of anything to do with the events of Hogfather. You might want to hold off on Thief of Time until after you can finally read Hogfather, but that still leaves a lot for you to read. VVVVV I have actually just been rereading Jingo, it's amazing  All the Watch books are, really. I've read all the Watch, Witches and Death books and pretty much all the standalone/Moist books, with the exception of Making Money. But somehow I just can't get myself to pick up the back half of the Rincewind books
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Jul 4, 2010 18:22
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Thanks for the advice! Guess I'll start with Jingo tonight then
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Jul 4, 2010 19:07
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Mokinokaro posted:Get in touch with the publisher. I'm pretty sure I've heard of that exact issue with Hogfather before. I think that happened with my copy of Thud!, or something similar. One section of the book was skipped and replaced with a later section. When that section was over it went back to the correct section and then worked fine from there. It almost felt like an attempt to expand the page count or something. And yeah, Hogfather doesn't tie in too much with Jingo. Definitely read it before the next Death book though if you can.
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Jul 4, 2010 19:30
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Men at Arms and Thud are the last two for the Discworld Cup, I was expecting Night Watch in the final and wasn't suprised the Watch books were the winners nearly all the time.
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thebardyspoon posted:Men at Arms and Thud are the last two for the Discworld Cup, I was expecting Night Watch in the final and wasn't suprised the Watch books were the winners nearly all the time. Going Postal beat Small Gods...whhaaaa . I mean, Going Postal was good and all, but come on, Brother Brutha!
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Yeah, I wasn't expecting either of those outcomes. Thud beating Night Watch blows my mind, it was a fun book but I always felt the Night Watch was pretty widely agreed to be the favorite of all of them. Small Gods losing is a little bit less surprising, I figure there has to be a sect of readers out there that it offended, that none-the-less like the rest of the books, tied with people voting for Going Postal because they liked the adaptation and it's recently on their minds.
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Loutre posted:Yeah, I wasn't expecting either of those outcomes. Thud beating Night Watch blows my mind, it was a fun book but I always felt the Night Watch was pretty widely agreed to be the favorite of all of them. Terry Pratchett writes great, entertaining books. All of the Discworld novels are such. But, in addition to being great and entertaining, Small Gods is Literature, with a capital L, a feat that few other Discworld books can even get close to. It will always be the "best"* book in my eyes and the one I would have wanted to win. *an entirely separate concept from "my favorite," Thief of Time (Night Watch takes second and Small Gods third; notice a pattern? I have a giant man-crush on Lu-Tze).
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I'm reading through The Color of Magic now, and I've picked up Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms. I'm really liking it so far, what Discworld book do you think I should start on after those?
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Jul 7, 2010 08:21
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chutche2 posted:I'm reading through The Color of Magic now, and I've picked up Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms. I'm really liking it so far, what Discworld book do you think I should start on after those? Now's a good a time as any to bring back the (slightly out of date) Discworld Reader's Guide:  The unlisted books are Unseen Academicals, sort of a Rincewind/other Wizards type and a followup story to Going Postal called Making Money. The Watch novels are probably the most popular overall, with the later Death and Industrial Revolution books and the fantastic Small Gods as a standalone. I personally also love the Young Adult stuff if you don't mind the younger style, which (ha!) are largely a spin-off of the Witches books. Of course, it's difficult to go too far wrong. I still generally dis-recommend
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Jul 7, 2010 10:14
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You should definitely read The Light Fantastic after Colour of Magic, since it follows on from it directly.
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Jul 7, 2010 10:42
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Hey, awesome. Thanks.
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Jul 7, 2010 19:21
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Night Watch is Pratchett's magnum opus imo. The way everything just comes together towards the end.
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Jul 8, 2010 01:27
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Thanks for that handy chart. I've only now started reading the Discworld books, and I've just been buying and reading them in chronological order. I didn't really dig the first two books at all, but I thought that was just Pratchett going through some growing pains or whatnot. While that's probably true to an extent, after reading "Sourcery" I've decided that I just don't like Rincewind very much. :P Now I can just skip his books for the time being. "Mort" has probably been my favorite so far, but "Wyrd Sisters" is a drat close second.
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Jul 8, 2010 16:29
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The best bit in Mort is towards the end when their sneaking about Deaths place thinking they could still fix the massive mess they made on time and Death just totally appears from nowhere and pretty much schools them. Then the aftermath of his fight with Mort  .
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Jul 8, 2010 17:14
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Brother Brutha!  Oh, for Christ's sake! If asked I would call Small Gods my favorite book by Pratchett, and in fact one of my favorite books ever. I cannot believe I never noticed that. My sole weak defense is that in my head I always pronounced his name as rhyming with Ruth-ah.
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Jul 9, 2010 10:35
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wheatpuppy posted:
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Jul 9, 2010 11:56
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wheatpuppy posted:
'The turtle moves?' 'Not this one, friend'.
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Jul 9, 2010 14:49
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wheatpuppy posted:
Vorbis jokes about him having to become a bishop ASAP to avoid the issues with being called "Father Brutha" or "Brother Brutha" after they come back from the desert and they assume Vorbis was the important one. It's his way of seeing if Brutha will accept being given a nice cushy easy position in the church hierarchy.
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Jul 9, 2010 22:42
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wheatpuppy posted:
I actually didn't notice until uh, well until my sister mentioned it when she finished Small Gods a week or so ago... I did the "broo-thuh" thing too  ....
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Jul 9, 2010 22:49
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I feel dumb now, I didn't notice Mossy Lawn or Brother Brutha, it makes me wonder what others I've missed.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:23
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Rosie Palm.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:28
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I wish my Gods trilogy was stupidly misplaced in the attic, I really want reread Small Gods again.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:49
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John Charity Spring posted:Rosie Palm. I still don't get this one.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:51
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I still don't get this one. Hand, masturbation joke.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:51
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I still don't get this one. Rosie Palm and her five daughters, the only women who will have sex with you.
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Personally I didn't get the twelve and a half percent joke until someone pointed it out to me, which made me feel like a dumbass.
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