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I echo pretty much every sentiment in the thread. I enjoy the hell out of every second of his books, but they're definitely not what I'd call dense prose, not even his latest, grittiest stuff. But like maxnmona said - it's like the comics page. You know there's plenty of other stuff you could be reading that's more informational, educational, or well-written, but gently caress that. You just want to have fun without worrying about thinking too hard.
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Care to share for those of us who are filthy Americans cursed with owning lovely paperback copies with awful cover art?
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YggiDee posted:The cover has a candle. That's kind of neat, mine just has a couple of footprints.
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It is Fifth Elephant but Vimes threw an orange at Inigo Skimmer.
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LooseChanj posted:Get a library card, or are you like me and absolutely loath letting a book out of your hands/shelf? He might also be like me and have a library with only two Pratchett books.
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Nilbop posted:A ... morpork? It's a kind of owl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Boobook
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As a giant Pratchett geek and a giant board/card game geek, this makes me indescribably happy.
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Grumio posted:I couldn't find if this was discussed earlier, but has any other discworld novel had the word "poo poo" in it? I'm reading Snuff at the moment and so far there has been several mentions, such as "putting up with this poo poo". I've no problem with swearing, but I was surprised to see it in a Pratchett novel. Isn't he more creative with avoiding swearing? I'm pretty sure I've seen it a few times, but not that often. One specific instance (since I'm rereading this right now) is in the Fifth Elephant when Lady Margolotta finds out Vimes is the ambassador, and says "the midden has hit the windmill," to which her Igor replies something like "nobody likes a thort thower of thit." So not exactly "poo poo," but close enough!
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Pthag posted:there's going to be at least another one They actually just announced a few hours on Facebook that the sequel, The Long War, is coming out (in the UK, at least) on June 20. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-War-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0857520113/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360073089&sr=1-1
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Arist posted:The zombie plot in Reaper Man is honestly kind of weak but the Death half of that book is enough to elevate the entire thing to some of the strongest material in the entire series. It was the first one I read, and it definitely hooked 11-year old me despite skimming most of the Windle Poons stuff because I just wanted more Death. I actually got it by accident because my parents were dumb enough to let me join the Science Fiction Book Club, one of those mailers from the 90s where unless you sent back the card every month saying you didn't want the books, they sent them and billed you for them anyway. It's also how I got Jingo, which I devoured right after Reaper Man, and an omnibus of Book of the New Sun, which was waaaaay too dense for preteen me but is now one of my favorite books.
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Serperoth posted:Also Terry was the absolute nerd king, wasn't he? He loved to play Oblivion, and actually helped write some of the dialogue for a follower mod. It eventually got ported into Skyrim, too, and it's the one mod I always install.
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thetoughestbean posted:Foul Ol Ron was the result of putting a Chinese restaurant’s menu through several layers of auto translation I thought I think the Chinese restaurant menu was just one of the things Pratchett said he'd fed into the Markov chain, but "millenium hand" is a lyric from a They Might Be Giants song, and he was a big fan of theirs so he probably put some of their lyrics in there too.
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What are you talking about? Ankh-Morpork is a shining example of that cornerstone of democracy, "one man, one vote."
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