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Just to chip in on the reading order, I started Pratchett as a primary schooler, iirc, with the audio books read by Tony Robinson (which are thus my mental source for nearly all the voices of the characters, including RASPY DEATH), and more importantly I began with Eric, which I loved. Of course I later went back and read it again when I was old enough to get all the jokes. After Eric I began to read what books I could find, completely out of order, listening to some, reading others, until finally I had to fall in line with the release order because I'd run out of books. I've got to say that reading order doesn't matter a drat from my experience with the series and its permutations. The books stand alone so well that you can happily read them completely out of order, switching between characters and so on. But I guess like with all things other people's mileage may vary. As for Making Money, I'm going to have to go read up on how reflected-sounds-of-underground-spirits works before I re-read. Some of the gags went over my head. My father, on the other hand, who trained as an accountant, found it hilarious. v  v
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| # ¿ Nov 13, 2007 00:13 |
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Sulevis posted:Oh man. According to the Wikipedia list of Discworld novels, Thief of Time was number 26. We're at number 36 now. It really doesn't look like Pratchett is going back to Death/Susan. I always thought that ToT was possibly going to be the last Susan book. Of course, I'd like another Death book too, which necessarily involves Susan and Lobsang, so that would be awesome, but if he chose to end her story I'd be happy he chose that book to do it with.
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Leospeare posted:Llamados is definitely some part of the British Isles. It's rainy and has druids and standing stones. Llamedos (write it backwards) is most definitely Wales, given the language, the accent, the celtic themes, the huge amount of rain and more importantly the fact that the name is borrowed from the made-up Welsh town of Llareggub from Under Milk Wood. (again, spell it backwards)
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| # ¿ May 6, 2008 09:28 |
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NastyPBears posted:Yeah, they do have Morris Dancers, aren't they an English rather than British thing? Lancre is basically all of rural England rolled into one tiny vertical country, with bits of Scotland and so on thrown in for flavour.
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| # ¿ May 8, 2008 08:59 |
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lots of people posted:Making Movies It's Moving Pictures, people. Or did it get a different title in the US or something? EDIT: and I suppose for content, I should say that I started reading the series at a fairly young age and began with Gotta tell you though, re-reading Soul Music after having watched the Blues Brothers for the first time was a trip. Mr. Moon fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2009 around 21:04 |
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Guys, guys. That's not Granny Weatherwax on the cover. Kidby's Weatherwax looks like this: Judging by the shepherd's crook and general face, I'd say that's an older Tiffany. Given the title of the book, that's not far-fetched.
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| # ¿ May 26, 2010 08:56 |
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My introduction to the Discworld was the abridged audiobooks read by Tony Robinson. A good 90% of his character voices are permanently wedged in my brain for the characters now. Whenever we would go on holiday my dad would always take a new one along in the car.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2010 01:25 |
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Scar over his eye = post Night Watch. Come on people, that's clearly the current Sam Vimes. Let's not mess about with time travel theories when we should be wondering what the hell he's doing on a paddleboat riding a flash flood in a valley with a flock of chickens. Perhaps a return to Uberwald? Or just a trip to the Copperheads? I can't think of anywhere on the Sto Plains that has that kind of geography. Terry has been hinting at a lot of stuff re: the Unholy Empire in recent books.
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2011 14:34 |
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Jedit posted:One our foreign friends may not get. The Low Kings of the Dwarves are crowned on the Scone of Stone. The High Kings of the Scots were crowned on the Stone of Scone (pronounced "Scoone"). It's still used to crown the British monarch, though we returned it to the scots a few years ago. And, of course, it was once famously nicked, broken, and returned amid rumours of it having been replaced.
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| # ¿ Apr 30, 2012 12:09 |
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AlphaDog posted:Nope, he's always been older than Vimes, and Vimes is getting pretty old. I'm pretty sure Rust Sr in night Watch is in his early 20s, if only because Sybil talks about him as a contemporary and says she dated him at some point and she's ~16 in NW. So I'd put Rust as maybe 5 years older than vimes/sybil at best.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 10:20 |
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Wolfechu posted:Well, if it's HBO, I hope they keep the nudity down to Pratchett levels. The only tits in the City Watch should be Nobby and Colon. Not sure we've read the same novels, since you seem to be forgetting Captain "finds time to be naked in almost every book" Angua.
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| # ¿ Jul 8, 2012 14:33 |
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The only quote I ever remember reading was about how Gaiman and Pratchett did so much writing and rewriting together and back-and-forth planning/editing over the phone that neither of them remember who wrote what or if it's even possible to figure that out.
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| # ¿ Dec 11, 2012 23:48 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 07:34 |
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Flipswitch posted:Anyone here got the Discworld board game? or is there a thread floating about it? I've been having a look but can't see much. I'm interested in picking it up but am a bit unsure how it plays, I wouldn't mind some opinions from you guys/gals. It's a lot of fun, and rewards being a devious bugger. The multiple win conditions are very thematic and make the game a balancing act between obfuscating your identity and progressing towards your goal. Plus all the little in-jokes (like the Fools Guild related cards being useless hand-fillers that you get to pass off on someone else, or the firefighters allowing you to burn someone's property down unless they pay you) make the game great to play with other fans.
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