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sfwarlock posted:Happy 25th of May. GNU Terry Pratchett. (and do you know where your towel is?) I am protected.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Rock n' Roll. It's a very bad joke not up to his standards. He more than made up for it with the band name "We're Certainly Dwarfs."
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Jul 8, 2017 19:47
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Mean and turf.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Mean and turf. But you're not wearing your hat backwards in a menacing way, yo.
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Jul 9, 2017 09:52
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Skippy McPants posted:He more than made up for it with the band name "We're Certainly Dwarfs." I had been wondering what the joke there was for literally years. ...but obviously They Might Be Dwarfs, and in fact they certainly are dwarfs. Holy poo poo. How did I miss that?
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Jul 10, 2017 19:06
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DACK FAYDEN posted:... You mean They Might Be Giants, of course.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:16
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Yeah, it's literally just reversing each word.
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Jul 11, 2017 00:33
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DACK FAYDEN posted:... Don't feel bad. It took me literally a decade to work out "Surreptitious Fabric."
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Jul 11, 2017 01:20
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Don't feel bad. It took me literally a decade to work out "Surreptitious Fabric." I felt so clever when I got that one.
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Jul 11, 2017 01:23
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Discworld Convention 2018 memberships went on sale today at 7pm and the site bombed under the load. Over 400 registered in the first thirty minutes.
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cptn_dr posted:I felt so clever when I got that one. Velvet Underground ?
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Jul 11, 2017 02:40
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mllaneza posted:Velvet Underground ? Correct. All the Variously Named Band's names come from somewhere similar. The one that gets most people is The Blots, which I have no problem spoiling for you because it's quite obscure: it's the Inkspots.
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Jul 11, 2017 08:33
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mllaneza posted:Velvet Underground ? Yup. Still not as good as The Whom.
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Jedit posted:Correct. All the Variously Named Band's names come from somewhere similar. The one that gets most people is The Blots, which I have no problem spoiling for you because it's quite obscure: it's the Inkspots. Do the Inkspots make any sense in this context though? (I can't remember how they were mentioned in the book.)
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Jul 13, 2017 13:09
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do the Inkspots make any sense in this context though? (I can't remember how they were mentioned in the book.) It's just one of the names of the band that isn't the Band With Rocks In.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:16
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do the Inkspots make any sense in this context though? (I can't remember how they were mentioned in the book.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stains_(Los_Angeles_band) ??
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Jul 18, 2017 04:01
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The Ink Spots were quite influential about the time Terry was a small child. It wouldn't surprise me if it's a reference to doo-wop music he heard on the radio or played by his parents.
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I just started reading Discworld finally and am about 25% through Guards! Guards! It's so good.
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Jul 23, 2017 00:36
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:I just started reading Discworld finally and am about 25% through Guards! Guards! Welcome, friend. We are all cursed and now you are too.
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Jul 23, 2017 01:05
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I was moving all my books into my new shelves and I remembered I lent my copy of Men At Arms to a friend a decade ago and never got it back   My OCD!
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Jul 23, 2017 02:08
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iajanus posted:I was moving all my books into my new shelves and I remembered I lent my copy of Men At Arms to a friend a decade ago and never got it back You order by publication date? Pleb. (Nice collection  )
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hanales posted:You order by publication date? Pleb. It was the only way that satisfied my OCD sufficiently. Although now that you mention it.........
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iajanus posted:It was the only way that satisfied my OCD sufficiently. Well if you THINK about it, you rarely read them in publication order, rather by series... laughingsatan.gif vvv Clearly he needs 2 more sets of the books so he can order them by publication, by series, and by chronological order. It's the only way to be sure. hanales fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 02:22
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Read them in chronological order, placing the middle sections of Night Watch pre-series and the rest in the middle of Thief of Time.
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Jul 23, 2017 02:31
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I've been picking up the little collector's hardbacks, and I'm mildly annoyed that putting them in publication order breaks the labelled collections up. EDIT: Also I am mildly annoyed that I don't know when the next set will be published.
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Jul 23, 2017 02:49
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Rand Brittain posted:I've been picking up the little collector's hardbacks, and I'm mildly annoyed that putting them in publication order breaks the labelled collections up. Gollancz were able to publish the first half because they have the rights to publish that set of books - Transworld control everything after Jingo, if I recall correctly. Unless Gollancz and Transworld can come to some form of agreement, then it's unlikely to ever happen.
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iajanus posted:I was moving all my books into my new shelves and I remembered I lent my copy of Men At Arms to a friend a decade ago and never got it back OK, now where's the other six books? The Last Hero, TAMAHER and the first four Tiffany Aching books. 
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Jul 23, 2017 10:59
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Jedit posted:OK, now where's the other six books? Also missing are the bad science of Discworld books.
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iajanus posted:I was moving all my books into my new shelves and I remembered I lent my copy of Men At Arms to a friend a decade ago and never got it back I'm impressed that you have all the Josh Kirby covers. Those are getting increasingly hard to find in my area.
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I haven't read any Pratchett since a was a wee babby. Where do I start again? Should I go chronologically - are all of the books "good"?
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Jul 23, 2017 15:24
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Personally I would say start at Mort and go forward chronologically from there. The first three aren't really bad books, but they were written before Pratchett really settled on the tone and style for Discworld. They're more direct fantasy parodies than anything else. It's not really vital to read them in chronological order, but you do get to see the world and characters slowly evolve over time that way. After Mort I don't think there are any books people would describe as bad up until some of the very last ones, but you can always skip to the next one if you're not enjoying it.
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Jul 23, 2017 15:38
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Just read Thief of time first like I did.
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anatomi posted:I haven't read any Pratchett since a was a wee babby. Where do I start again? Should I go chronologically - are all of the books "good"? What other things do you enjoy reading? There are various good entry points, but which one is right for you depends on what else you like to read.
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The first one I read was The Truth but I usually lend out Guards! Guards! as the starting point.
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Crumpet posted:Gollancz were able to publish the first half because they have the rights to publish that set of books - Transworld control everything after Jingo, if I recall correctly. Unless Gollancz and Transworld can come to some form of agreement, then it's unlikely to ever happen. They already did that, and published four books after Jingo. And, having said that, I now see pictures of the next four, up to The Truth, which are set to come out sometime this fall. So now we know!
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Rand Brittain posted:They already did that, and published four books after Jingo. I didn't know that they continued it, that's great news - I have the rest of the books, so will definitely look to pick those up.
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Strange Cares posted:I'm impressed that you have all the Josh Kirby covers. Those are getting increasingly hard to find in my area. I got lucky insofar as I had one or two as a kid and then when I was 17 I got stuck in hospital for 4 weeks (and unbeknownst to me the doctors had told my parents I wasn't going to be leaving so they were a little overemotional and generous...) and my mum went and bought me every single book to that point (up to Thief of Time, I think?). I read them all while I was in there and have kept them all since  . All except Men at Arms . My first book was Equal Rites and it was OK, but I much preferred Mort. It took me a fair while to go back and read the first couple and I'm fairly certain had I read them first I may not have become as obsessed with them. Jedit posted:OK, now where's the other six books? It's on my to-do list, I missed the Tiffany Aching books when they first came out as I foolishly thought they wouldn't be as interesting. My mistake...
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Holy hell in a hardbiscuit, I'm still finding threads that run through this series. I enjoyed the hell out of Raising Steam when I read it. It's decently fun, as most of the Moist Von Lipwig novels are, and it works well as a stopping-point for the series, in case his daughter doesn't really do anything with it. But periodically, I'll load one of the audiobooks onto my phone, and listen to it during slow periods at work. Today, it was Reaper Man. I got to the part where Bill Door finally meets the mysterious blacksmith, the artificier who created the Combine Harvester - Ned Simnel. The connection didn't even occur to me when I first read Raising Steam, because it'd been so long since I read Reaper Man that it didn't ring any bells. That's one of the things I've always liked about the Discworld books in general, though - they feel, despite their clearly fantastical elements, like there's an actual world happening in between the stories - the stories are us looking at a particular sequence of events, but things don't just jump from story to story.
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I absolutely love the turns of phrases and ridiculous attempts at spelling. It's a huge change from all the books where everything is perfect. "More highly bred than a hilltop bakery" is pretty funny, just started the second Watch book
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Oh, hey, the Gift Editions of the Tiffany Aching books do in fact line up perfectly next to the Discworld Hardback Library, at least as far as height goes.
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