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SeanBeansShako posted:And the Fallout 3/New Vegas games have an eye patch so it is only a matter of time before Cohen is complete. This pleases me greatly. I've only read The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic so far, but Cohen is pretty much one of my favorites already.
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Nov 17, 2011 19:58
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Snoop Rocket posted:This pleases me greatly. I've only read The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic so far, but Cohen is pretty much one of my favorites already.
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Nov 17, 2011 20:23
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FactsAreUseless posted:Cohen also shows up in Interesting Times and The Last Hero. He definitely gets one of the best character arcs of any of Pratchett's recurring characters, so I would recommend reading those two next. Plus Last Hero has some absolutely beautiful Paul Kidby illustration. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be picking them up tomorrow as I'm almost done with TLF.
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Nov 18, 2011 01:55
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FactsAreUseless posted:Cohen also shows up in Interesting Times and The Last Hero. He definitely gets one of the best character arcs of any of Pratchett's recurring characters, so I would recommend reading those two next. Plus Last Hero has some absolutely beautiful Paul Kidby illustration. Not to mention Troll Bridge
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I'm not sure why people are confused about who/what Stinky is. He's the Evil Goblin from the storybook. The one mentioned in I shall wear midnight and again in the latest book. Stinky pretty much tells Vimes this near the end. Something like "Naughty boy sees evil goblin, evil goblin sees naughty boy - just as well we both right". He's a minor supernatural being because of all the fear and belief from all those children across the disc. Of course he might also be some sort of goblin mythical figure, but if he is, he's also the goblin from the book.
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Nov 18, 2011 12:49
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Stinky knows about the whole Vimes + Summoning Dark thing - first time he's encountered, he paws at Vimes' tattooed wrist clamouring for "just ice", and I think the Dark mentions something about it not just being dwarves that have connections to that sort of entity. Sure, he knows about the storybook thing, but that doesn't mean that he's just the dude from the book come to life, as why the hell would something conjured out of the minds of unimaginative scared kids have ties to stuff like the Dark? I reckon he's some sort of generic amalgamated supernatural "spirit of goblin" thing that's in the book so that gobbos don't just have unggue as their one characteristic.
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Penguingo posted:Stinky knows about the whole Vimes + Summoning Dark thing - first time he's encountered, he paws at Vimes' tattooed wrist clamouring for "just ice", and I think the Dark mentions something about it not just being dwarves that have connections to that sort of entity. The Summoning Dark is pretty much the coalesced fears of the dwarves, isn't it? An ancient entity that to them represents the inevitable vengeance of the betrayed? If Stinky is an entity created by fear, why wouldn't he have links to the Summoning Dark?
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AlphaDog posted:The Summoning Dark is pretty much the coalesced fears of the dwarves, isn't it? An ancient entity that to them represents the inevitable vengeance of the betrayed? If Stinky is an entity created by fear, why wouldn't he have links to the Summoning Dark? I'd see it more as The Summoning Dark being the anger of the dying dwarf who draws it's sign, so Stinky might represent the anger that even the most sniveling goblin feels deep inside. to change the subject for a while, I know there's the sort-of plans for a watch tv-series and there's the movies, but is there any chance of a Witches movie? I mean Germaine Greer ain't getting any younger so the True Nanny Ogg might pass away before they film it and that would be a true tragedy!
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The Road Crew posted:to change the subject for a while, I know there's the sort-of plans for a watch tv-series and there's the movies, but is there any chance of a Witches movie? I mean Germaine Greer ain't getting any younger so the True Nanny Ogg might pass away before they film it and that would be a true tragedy! I bet some people have approached him and been like "We love Wyrd Sisters Terry, I can call you Terry can't I? We'd be interested in making a movie out of it, one small change though. Instead of being about two old women and one young woman can it be about a 20 something male, a comedy bumbling sidekick and 1 young attractive witch instead.
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A Watch TV series? Like an AM police procedural? I would watch the hell out of that.
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I was looking at the new board game on Amazon last night, looks like fun but I am poor and don't have enough nerdy friends for it  .
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Board game? Please tell me of Thud.
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Flipswitch posted:Board game? Please tell me of Thud. Thud is already a boardgame; I have it in my closet, though I've never actually had a chance to play it. Unless I completely misunderstood your post.
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Dr Snofeld posted:Thud is already a boardgame; I have it in my closet, though I've never actually had a chance to play it. Unless I completely misunderstood your post. Find a fellow goon with Thud, play through mail/e-mail old school style.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Find a fellow goon with Thud, play through mail/e-mail old school style. Play through semaphore relay like Vetinari and Margolotta.
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Nov 30, 2011 12:50
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There's also a new boardgame by Martin Wallace.
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Pope Guilty posted:There's also a new boardgame by Martin Wallace. Thats the one, I need money and friends. And friends who like Discworld argh!
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Pope Guilty posted:There's also a new boardgame by Martin Wallace. Hello newest item on my Xmas list!
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There's also a Guards Guards based one, the Ankh Morpork one is supposed to be better though.
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thebardyspoon posted:There's also a Guards Guards based one, the Ankh Morpork one is supposed to be better though. Guards! Guards! I own it, but the long play-time and resemblance to Talisman have scared my group away from trying it out. Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, on the other hand, takes about an hour and is getting played at least once a week. I'm very happy with it; it rewards sneaky devious play and the occasional random events are strong without being overwhelming.
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Pope Guilty posted:There's also a new boardgame by Martin Wallace. My wife bought me this from the place where we play MTG (for Christmas) a couple of weeks ago. Can't wait to try it. Edit - Those sentences were terrible and I apologize.
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The Road Crew posted:I mean Germaine Greer ain't getting any younger so the True Nanny Ogg might pass away before they film it and that would be a true tragedy! Hah, look at you being completely wrong. They are clearly holding off on the witches until such time as this pair has aged sufficiently:  And it will be perfect.
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Hogblob posted:Hah, look at you being completely wrong. They are clearly holding off on the witches until such time as this pair has aged sufficiently: Holy gently caress would that ever own.
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Hogblob posted:Hah, look at you being completely wrong. They are clearly holding off on the witches until such time as this pair has aged sufficiently: Somebody overdid the photoshop on that picture, Jennifer Saunders looks like an Auton.
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Question for anyone who's bought http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...HlOEBm9hZF6qb0g (The Discworld Mapp). Is that a book, or is it an actual map you could frame and put on your wall? Same question for "The Streets of Ankh-Morpork."
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Question for anyone who's bought http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...HlOEBm9hZF6qb0g It's a fold-out leaflety thing. It was really easy to just take off the cardboard covers and paste it to the wall. 
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AXE COP posted:It's a fold-out leaflety thing. It was really easy to just take off the cardboard covers and paste it to the wall. Awesome. Do you have to damage or tear it out of the book in any way to hang it up? I was thinking about trying to find a signed one. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Dec 3, 2011 |
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I thought Pratchett was (in his one mind-boggling attitude) deadset against a discworld map? "You can't map an imagination" or some such. Wonder how much it cost to do just that.
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Also, that map is the grooooviest thing while you're under the influence of certain absolutely legal prescription medications.
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420 look at cartography every day Are Ephebe and Tsort on that map? I can't find them, or Djelibebi. I can see the Tsort River just south of the Circle Sea, but not the actual countries. Also it's pretty cool that a map published in 1995 includes the paddleboats from Snuff. I thought they'd been introduced for that book, but they were obviously mentioned in a previous one.
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Penguingo posted:420 look at cartography every day Yes they're all on there, Terry talks about how in the original drafts things like weather wouldn't have worked properly so it has 'some' proper cartography as well.
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The busiest areas of the map have locations numbered, so you need to look at the legend to figure out which is which.
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LooseChanj posted:I thought Pratchett was (in his one mind-boggling attitude) deadset against a discworld map? "You can't map an imagination" or some such. Wonder how much it cost to do just that. I read something he wrote (for something including a map of Ankh-Morpork) about how he used to be against mapping things, and then found that mapping Ankh-Morpork in particular helped him in his writing.
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Tarezax posted:I read something he wrote (for something including a map of Ankh-Morpork) about how he used to be against mapping things, and then found that mapping Ankh-Morpork in particular helped him in his writing. It's just a matter "still a lot of white space to fill in, don't want to tie myself down to anything" versus "man, I came up with a lot of stuff, I am starting to get confused, need to draw a map or something!"
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It's very much the case, and he's admitted as such more than once, that by a point he needed help to make sure Carrot could see the top of the Watch House and the Patrician's Palace in a perfect line if viewed from the roof of the Opera House. Complications like that just kept piling up and and up he said sod it, and so the Streets of Ankh-Morpork and Dicworld Mappe were intelligently designed.
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There's also a mappe of Death's Domain, though it's more of a picture.
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So i stumbled upon the first five discworld novels in a used book store and I said why not. I only heard good things about it and I was out of fantasy to read. Should I read them in a special order or stick to published date?
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The first three books in the series are different in tone from the rest of them and, in opinion of a lot of people including me, aren't all that great. I'd suggest Going Postal, Small Gods or Guards, Guards as the first book to read.
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If you've got Small Gods or access to it (library or something?), read that first, just because it's awesome. Otherwise, going in published order is a pretty good idea, but you might want to skip one or more of Equal Rites, Sourcery, and Eric. If you don't like the first two, definitely skip those three. Pyramids is also arguably skippable, but different in tone from those first few. Now, look at the remaining two-dozen-odd books that I haven't called "skippable" - those are your reading material for the foreseeable future, and they are all incredibly good. You're in for a great ride. edit: Also, there are "guides" for what books to read before other books, but published order takes care of that nicely (also puts them in more-or-less chronological order, story-wise, with a couple exceptions). And there are a lot of running gags and things that will build up steam best if you just read in published order. DontMockMySmock fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Dec 7, 2011 |
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