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I recently was in Italy and was running out of books in English, so a friend of mine lent me Carpe Jugulum and I liked it. It certainly wasn't a great book, but it was a lot of fun. So now I just went back and read The Colour of Magic and I'm reading The Light Fantastic. I'm not an expert, having only read three, but the later book was definitely a lot better written and less all-over-the-place jokey than these first two. On the other hand, all three are so light I hardly feel like I'm reading a book. It's more like looking at the comic section of the newspaper or browsing through the SA front page.
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Trouble Man posted:The allusion is to the death of the Patrician, which nobody in the series has ever actually come out and talked about but is clearly the elephant in the room of Ankh-Morpork politics. Characters discuss that Carrot is clearly the rightful king, that there's more going on with him than initially apparent, that the Patrician has no clear arrangements for sucession, that he's rather key to running the city, that's he's getting on in years and that Vimes offed the last king of Ankh-Morpork, frequently without much relevance to the actual plot of the book in question. They don't need to come out and "OH NO I HOPE THE PATRICIAN DOESN'T DIE AS THAT WOULD CLEARLY LEAD TO A VIMES/CARROT DEATH DUEL ON TOP OF THE TOWER OF ART" for it to something that they frequently allude to - that is, an allusion. Usually an allusion means a reference to something else, like a reference to Shakespeare or to The Beatles or something like that. It was kind of confusing because you seem to be saying that this character was referring to something outside of the Discworld series.
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Aug 16, 2007 02:34
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Was there seriously some sort of flame war about terry prachett a page ago that ended with people reporting each other for "flaming"? Jesus that's pathetic.
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Oct 2, 2007 19:54
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