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Unintentional in that it wasn't the plan.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2012 22:36 |
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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:29 |
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Iain Glen is basically what Vimes looks like in my head.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2012 19:14 |
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See if someone has a Books for Prisons program near you.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2012 04:20 |
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I think he said that YA books are darker and the sex is less obvious.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2012 16:41 |
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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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# ¿ Oct 13, 2012 02:27 |
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I nominate whoever jumped in with the CPR for man or woman of the year.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2012 03:48 |
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It is on his facebook too.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2013 15:59 |
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Terry's facebook says the The Long War will be published on June 20th.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2013 16:00 |
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Pope Guilty posted:I thought The Last Continent was terrible. Just a series of "Australia, amirite?" jokes. This is the synopsis of basically every book or movie written about Australia.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2013 17:28 |
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Mister Roboto posted:Oh, and fun trivia: Someone really really hates the Duck Man. In one of the Assassin's guild books, he's got a really high price. That just means that he would be difficult to kill.
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# ¿ May 23, 2013 15:29 |
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Mister Roboto posted:Yes, but someone had to take out the contract. It's not as if every begger and shopkeeper and peasant in AM has one on their head. We don't know that.
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# ¿ May 24, 2013 00:53 |
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Facebook says that the next Discworld novel, "Raising Steam," will be published October 24. Apparently it is about trains.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2013 00:40 |
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New cover:
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 15:27 |
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Isn't there also a summoned demon in one book that turn out to be very polite? Edit: maybe in Good Omens?
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2013 22:34 |
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A handful of Discworld books are $1.99 on the Kindle store today.
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 15:26 |
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In case anyone didn't know: In the Kindle management settings on amazon.com, under "country settings", you can change your address to 10 Downing Street, order the ebook from amazon.co.uk, then change the address back to your previous address.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2013 18:54 |
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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... IME amazon ships pre-orders so that they arrive at your door on release day.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2013 03:42 |
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JerryLee posted:Just to ask the possibly silly question, there isn't any sort of region control that would restrict you from freely using it on an US device? The only restriction is on buying. Once you buy the ebook it doesn't care what your address is.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2013 16:45 |
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I got the impression that he wanted everyone to think that, but he was really anticipating the dwarf coup, or something similar where fast travel would be required for diplomatic reasons.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2013 05:15 |
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Also note that is it being knocked as Terry Pratchett story. That still puts it well above any of its competition.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2013 18:21 |
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Snuff is $1.99 on Kindle today.
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2014 16:42 |
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The Long Earh is $1.99 on Kindle today.
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# ¿ May 25, 2014 15:24 |
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The Long Mars is out today in the UK.
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2014 14:46 |
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Vimes kills Vetinari.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2014 18:27 |
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YggiDee posted:Sometimes I wonder how many Discworld injokes and references I've missed by not being from England. Probably most of them.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 00:51 |
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It was great.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2014 14:50 |
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Guys sometimes it is ok to not get the last word on the internet.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 20:08 |
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Markovnikov posted:What is that image even from? Do the pratchetts have some sort of family farm where they raise wooly pigs and brew giant champagne? Either way it's awesome The man pictured is actually three feet tall.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 01:02 |
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You should pick up the third book. The first two were kind of a warm-up for the author.
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# ¿ May 20, 2015 20:49 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Still no bloody clue what happened to my Monstrous Regiment paperback, It seems to have vanished? Did you look under the couch?
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2015 17:48 |
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Well at one point departing to join the pioneer lifestyle became non-optional
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2015 00:55 |
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Great, now I have an urge to re-read Watch books but no time to do so. :-/
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 01:02 |
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I was re-reading Watch books, and the transition from Night Watch to Thud to Snuff is depressing. :-/
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 15:30 |
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Probably a typo in the to-do list.
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 20:28 |
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I recommend reading them in reverse order by length.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 16:51 |
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Owns
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2018 20:07 |
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It's going to be an off-brand Batman remake.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2019 21:44 |
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It’s like they had some generic forgettable urban fantasy series in development and decided to leaven it with some popular IP that they already had licensed.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 16:23 |
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This is good (click to read thread): https://twitter.com/MakeYeFretPod/status/1247840167819456515?s=20
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 03:56 |
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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:29 |
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Beachcomber posted:Sounds like a good opportunity to sell some soup.
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