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Yeah I just finished The Shepherd's Crown and yeah  . There was also a short afterward explaining Terry's writing process and admitting Terry would have written a longer and more polished book if he had the time, as well as talking about some of the books and stories he had planned on writing, one of which seems to have been an allegory for his battle with Alzheimers .I still need to read Raising Steam and Unseen Academicals. I had started Unseen Academicals but didn't really get into it as it started with a lot of new characters. I'll have to go give those two a read now.
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I heard Reacher Gilt was partly based on John Galt.
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great big cardboard tube posted:I just started discworld, finished the first 2 books and liked them a lot. Looks like I'm at the point where I have to choose whether to read the rest by publication date or jump around and follow specific character arcs to their ends? If I remember correctly, I read them by character arcs (ie I read the Death books, the Witches books, etc) but I'd say either way is enjoyable, as you get to see the Discworld evolve as a setting and PTerry becoming a better writer ( and sadly, in the later books written after his "embugerance", his writing quality decline). I would read them in some sort of order, if only to avoid spoilers / plot points (that said the first Discworld book I read was The Last Hero, a big coffee table / picture book that came late in the series) Also re: Pratchett and religion, his best take on it was his non-Discworld trilogy The Bromeliad (Truckers, Diggers, and Wings)
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gonadic io posted:I'm looking for the particular quote that involves two big nations deciding to have a war/battle/conflict/fight and them explaining to a smaller neighbour that the it had to actually take place in the smaller country. This is very convincing to the person from the smaller country but it gets harder and harder to remember the argument by the time to get home. I think that was from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.
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Heads up, there is a Humble Bundle with the complete collection of Discworld novels up now. Get the entire series for $18, have to get though Kobo.com however.
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Bundle of Holding has the GURPS DIscworld RPG bundle for $14.95. The bundle includes the GURPS Discworld Roleplaying Game as well as GURPS Low-Tech and GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality as pdfs.
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