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I really hope Pratchett will go back to Death/Susan soon. I'm rather curious as to what happened to Lobsang.
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Good Omens is a good introduction both to Pratchett and Gaiman. Personally, I find it the best out of all their work. It lacks Pratchett's often OTT silliness and Gaiman's "everyone dies, the end" attitude.
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Oct 24, 2007 17:59
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I'm still holding out for a Susan/Lobsang/Death book. 
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Nov 11, 2007 16:18
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Re: reading order. I started off with Hogfather and read that a couple of times, before starting on others, completely out of order. It was influenced entirely by what my local library had at the time and how motivated I was to go to a non-local library to get the rest. I think I accidentally read a couple of books in the Watch storyline in order, but that's it. I read completely haphazardly and then strung together the timeline in my head (I do remember that I read The Last Continent before Interesting Times).
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Nov 13, 2007 11:24
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BexGu posted:Which could happen, depending on how you read the last part of Thief of Time. That is exactly how I read it and thus I look forward to seeing how the relationship develops. I'm also curious what the offspring of Death and Time would be like (apart from somewhat of a logical contradiction). Plus, Death is one of my favourite characters.
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Nov 13, 2007 15:16
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Oh man. According to the Wikipedia list of Discworld novels, Thief of Time was number 26. We're at number 36 now. It really doesn't look like Pratchett is going back to Death/Susan.
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Nov 13, 2007 19:30
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Interesting. I'm looking forward to it!
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Nov 15, 2007 17:17
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Pratchett has a pretty good idea of the shelf-life of his characters, hence him retiring Rincewind and semi-retiring the Witches. However, if he never writes one last Watch or Death/Susan book, he'll have made a grave mistake. Sally and Lobsang have enough potential for at least one more book. (Well, Lobsang does for sure, Sally gets a bit overshadowed by Otto.)
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Nov 24, 2007 11:48
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Today, I found out what the Scone of Stone refers to. Apparently, there is a thing called the Stone of Scone, on which Scotland's kings were crowned. I laughed very hard at that, much to the bemusement of my classmates. Regarding Thud! putting people in mind of the London Subway bombing: Fifth Elephant struck pretty close to home for me. Pratchett captured the atmosphere of the former Soviet Bloc pretty well. I love how spot-on he can be about political issues.
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Nov 28, 2007 18:44
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It's likely to be Fáil. I've seen that word before around here. I enjoyed the first Science of Discworld novel, but I hesitate to get the next two. Pop science books that involve physics tend to depress me since they inevitably start discussing the end of the universe.
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Nov 29, 2007 16:22
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The first one, I think, brushes on the topic. I remember reading it and thinking "oh god, here we go again with the Big Freeze". It was very enjoyable otherwise.
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Nov 30, 2007 16:18
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gently caress. I guess we all have to go sometime, but Alzheimer's is an ugly way to go. 
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Dec 12, 2007 15:30
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I always thought Rincewind was in his early twenties in the earlier books and late twenties/mid thirties by the later books. I have trouble imagining him as an old man.
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Jan 29, 2008 20:08
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This has been brought up before - it's obvious that Pratchett is aware of the shelf life of his characters. He semi-retired the Witches and totally retired the Wizards and Rincewind. I think he's preparing to do the same with the Watch (Vimes fixed his life and more or less cleared the family name and honour, so I assume his arc is coming to an end). I think it's a good thing. We haven't had time to grow tired of the characters.
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Feb 10, 2008 20:23
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He's currently locked up in the office of the Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, studying ... something.
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Feb 11, 2008 11:57
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Ah. I forgot about Unseen Academicals. I'm pretty sure the Science of Discworld books are not strictly canon, though.
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Feb 11, 2008 18:41
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Uberwald is Eastern Europe, in particular the USSR/former USSR. At least, that's what I got from Fifth Elephant.
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May 4, 2008 20:00
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Actually, Ahmed is a policeman, his guest was a criminal who had poisoned the sole well of a village. Ahmed killed him as soon as he found out, without waiting for the 72 hours to expire.
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Nilbop posted:Actually, Ahmed amasses quite a bit of evidence before the deed, including interviewing the guy who sold him the poison, and a witness who saw the poisoner poison the poisonees. He did kill him one hour early though, taking advantage of the fact that all Klatchians knew D'regs were anal about that stuff. Aha. I knew I was forgetting something. Been a while since I read it. And I'm just being on the safe side here.
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