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I HAVE ALL OF TERRY PRATCHETT'S DISCWORLD BOOKS. THE CHARACTERS ARE UNIQUE AND ONE TALKS LIKE THIS. I LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING DEATH REFERENCES IN EVERY BOOK. The Susan arc in Thief of Time threw me for a loop, though, although I rather did like the overly ample descriptions of how teacher-ly she was  My god, the Wee Free Men drove me batty with their bastardized Scottish...
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NastyPBears posted:In Jingo did anyone else think he was doing Lovecraft (when the island first appears and he is talking about weird non-human statues or something, it has been a while) only to be disappointed? Oh god yes, I forgot about Willikins. Now he's one bad rear end gangsta (literally!) in my book.
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ConfusedUs posted:I picked up half a dozen Discworld books for fifty cents each. WTF HOW WHERE?!?! Oh, and Rincewind pisses me off with his utter pussyness.
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Pope Guilty posted:Are Carpe Jugulum and Lords and Ladies nearly the same book, or am I hallucinating? The side effect of reading almost all the Discworld novels is they really start to blur together after awhile 
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Nilbop posted:gently caress. gently caress fuckity friggety jiggity jib jabbery wabbery flappity happity gently caress. Honey, I Shrunk The Goons! I read this on Fark and was wondering how long it'd take you guys to put out the notice. I'm rather pissed that we won't be getting many more books, but sad for Prachett too because my stepfather has Alzheimer's and it's horrible. It's a good way to drive their caretakers insane (and poor).
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olylifter posted:Anyone seen this and bidding on it? With a 0 feedback seller, all the images are broken, and unverifiable signature authenticity? No thanks.
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Keshik posted:That was a loving travesty, and I thought he could not have done a worse job. Can I just say Eragon and Dungeons & Dragons?
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Apr 6, 2008 18:19
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precision posted:Would it be too obvious to say that Alan Rickman would be the perfect Vetinari? Only if he smiles more for this role. He plays the silent scowling bad guy well enough, let's have a role change! I know he CAN smile, ffs...
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Has anyone picked up Dodger? I'm about halfway through it and while there's definitely some hard-core Prachett-style writing in there, it's also so heavily.... British compared to the Discworld books. If it wasn't for the footnotes on the Cockney rhyming slang and the Internet as a dictionary to parse out the less obvious Britishicisms (cove means "dude", not "little body of water"), I'd be completely lost in this book. I'm enjoying it, though.
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ThaGhettoJew posted:On the other hand Thud!, Wintersmith, and Snuff are all pretty drat good. Going Postal just happens to be brilliant. Not to mention that Nation, Dodger, and The Long Earth were all great non-Discworld reads that came afterwards too. I liked Dodger. I'm trying to get through The Long Earth and I just don't like its slow, slow pace. Yes, I get it, anyone with a potato can build a Stepper and visit any Stepwise Earths, move ON already. I don't think the real plot started until 1/4 of the way into the book. Far, far too long a premise for what is essentially a simple concept.
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CuddleChunks posted:You can email me at my username @ gmail dot com and we can work out the fine details but I have the four major books for the Witches cycle - Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum. All in paperback so they are cheap to ship around. Media mail!
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Jan 22, 2013 17:59
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I made a thing stealing all the awesome things from reddit and various other places, as is the Gods-given right of Internet denizens. GNU Terry Pratchett
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thespaceinvader posted:I knew I needed to update my website, now I have another reason. Do it, and then PM me.
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John Dough posted:Excuse me, I think you mean I have a feeling he's a relative of Mr. Gambolputty.
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Regarding audiobooks: how do they handle the footnotes? 
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