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Oh poo poo more Pratchett I thought it wasn't out for another month where is my goddam wallet!
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Goddamit, the local shipments of Unseen Academicals have been delayed or something; Amazon won't ship until November and the bookstores wont have the books for two weeks or so. 
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Oct 15, 2009 01:07
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Exasperated Badger posted:UA is great. Much better than all the other Wizard books. And it's like a love letter to Ankh-Morpork. Cameos by SO MANY people. History monks. 
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Nov 8, 2009 01:41
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Well, it's hardly a Watch book without Vimes Going Spare on someone.
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Nov 17, 2009 00:38
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inklesspen posted:Vimes'd go spare. It's astounding how much power that phrase has in Ankh-Morpork.
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Nov 17, 2009 18:00
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SeanBeansShako posted:Well, Rincewind has a little more 'krisma. I thought it was well established in Feet of Clay that Nobby had "Charisntma"
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Jan 26, 2010 22:19
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Carpe Jugulum loses something when it's the first Witches book read- it's harder to appreciate the how the characters and dynamics have changed without the earlier books to build on. I didn't much care for it myself until I read up on the other ones.
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Mar 15, 2010 21:29
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Night Watch is loving glorious.
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Apr 21, 2010 04:52
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That dwarf was Cuddy, I believe
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May 16, 2010 01:54
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I think you mean especially if it's a fantasy version with rock monsters
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May 17, 2010 01:45
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The Truth and Thief of Time are both still Josh Kirby; Paul Kidby's cover art doesn't start until after.
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Jun 11, 2010 15:46
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It's worth it, though. When you look into your bookshelf and see 30+ novels of Discworld you feel like a king or a duke or something. After that you basically become a literary drug dealer. I keep re-buying Pratchetts because I'll lend one out and never see it again, or I read it so much the first 20 pages fell out
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Jun 24, 2010 18:43
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Isn't he just universally terrible at magic?
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Aug 18, 2010 15:59
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Lugubrious posted:Care to share for those of us who are filthy Americans cursed with owning lovely paperback copies with awful cover art? The cover has a candle.
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Aug 20, 2010 07:08
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I tried some of the Discworld BBC radio plays once, but I felt I was missing a lot without a lot of the narrative and internal dialogue. How do Audiobooks compare? (I've read everything up to I Shall Wear Midnight by now, I just like having something in my MP3 player for listening on the bus)
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Oct 15, 2010 23:48
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People can enjoy both, maybe? I do in fact read a great deal, but as a pedestrian I am frequently walking places, or taking a bus or train. For those times I like to have a wide variety of audio on me, and a few hours of podcasts or something. I've never listened to an audiobook, I thought it might be an interesting change of pace. That and I gave up walking with books after the third time I walked into a stop sign. Also, I believe Pratchett once said that the primary difference between his 'normal' books and his Young Adult books is that the Young Adult books have to have chapters.
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Oct 16, 2010 01:23
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Hedrigall posted:Just finished Small Gods and loved it. Because he was old
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Mar 29, 2011 07:04
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I'm pretty sure Sam Vimes would accept Godhood only for the length of time necessary to go to Cor Celesti and arrest the lot. ...Holy poo poo I'd read that.
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Apr 14, 2011 01:45
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Vimes and Weatherwax would never have a direct confrontation, if only because Nanny Ogg, Captain Carrot, and probably Vetinari would be doing absolutely everything in their power to prevent such a meeting.
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Jun 2, 2011 21:47
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Why does Canada get all the Discworld books a month later than the US does? Do they have to put all of the 'ou's back in or something? I'm dying over here man, I need my Pterry fix.
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Oct 19, 2011 23:23
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Screw it, I'm importing the US edition. It'll get here tomorrow.
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Oct 20, 2011 17:03
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I wasn't going to get it until December. In that time I can fix all the spelling myself.
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Oct 20, 2011 17:18
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The first Discworld novel I ever read was Going Postal, via the public library. The second Discworld novel was all of them, in a year-long reading binge.
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Dec 8, 2011 02:27
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God, yes. Thief of Time probably cracks the top five for me.
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Dec 12, 2011 00:40
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Frankly, I'd read the hell out of a book with a Jackrum/Vimes teamup. e: wait I'm dumb, is that a joke about Wilikin's characterization? 
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Feb 15, 2012 02:58
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I think it's Hersheba = Hershey bar? Djelibeybi took me a while the first time too.
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Feb 17, 2012 01:05
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Yeah, he said it in The Art of Discworld.
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Apr 29, 2012 04:04
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field balm posted:Awesome, I will grab NW this afternoon. Thanks! There's a few other books in-between Men at Arms and Night Watch that have Vimes in them, you may want to check them out too. Feet of Clay, Jingo, and The Fifth Elephant. Everyone loves Night Watch so much that I think they forget how awesome all the other ones are, too.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:48
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Feet of Clay is one of my favourites, but I was never all that hot on Jingo. 
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Nov 21, 2012 20:06
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I don't know, I felt like a lot of Jingo just went over my head, the way Wyrd Sisters makes more sense after you've read Macbeth and Hamlet, and Unseen Academicals with soccer. Apparently Jingo made a lot of references to the Gulf War and the JFK assassination? I never learned much past Canadian History back in high school, so I'm working on it. (Also Feet of Clay is before Jingo)
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Nov 21, 2012 21:34
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rejutka posted:the Venturi and Selachii Holy poo poo 
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Nov 22, 2012 18:49
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bunnyofdoom posted:Here's something extremely nerdy. Has anyone calculated the exchange rate between AM$ and say US or CAN $? I mean, I know a Watchman Captain gets $30 a month in Salary, and a good pair of boots costs $5, but I have no idea how much that ends up being relative to my paycheck etc. People have been very thorough in gathering various financial references in Discworld. I haven't found any 'actual' conversion rates but I think something like this at least gives a decent guideline.
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May 23, 2013 15:41
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Hedrigall posted:Preordering is often the worst thing. The amount of times I've preordered a book only to then stare jealously at it in bookstores while I wait a week or more for it to come in the mail... I tried preordering it as an E-book for the first time, and it actually worked out pretty well. The US and Canadian hardcovers aren't out yet, whereas overseas shipping from the UK is heinously expensive and would still take six days or so. Instead this morning I got an email that said 'hey you got a book' and it magically appeared on my Kobo.
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Nov 8, 2013 08:08
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I started at Going Postal, I saw it at the local library and the description sounded interesting. One of the best drat book decisions in my life.
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Vermine is just a pun on vermin and ermine, an animal often used in fur coats. If you mean Octarine, it's a colour that literally does not exist and can't be seen by (non-wizard) human eyes.
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Feb 22, 2014 04:12
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I think it was Windle Poons and the Differently Alive support group.
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May 11, 2014 23:31
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I love Feet of Clay to little pieces, you guys seriously didn't care for it?
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May 26, 2014 19:57
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Pope Guilty posted:Vimes'll go spare. ARREST THE GODS 
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Jul 1, 2014 18:24
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Both answers are correct. While Small Gods happens between Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies, it also takes place 100 years ago. It's like that shop from Soul Music. It's always been there, but it hasn't always been there yesterday. Also I figure this is why we had a whole book about History Monks.
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Sometimes I wonder how many Discworld injokes and references I've missed by not being from England.
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