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I had really high hopes for Unseen Academicals, but I was pretty let down by its scattergun approach to the plot. The UU environment and wizards have such potential on their own (eg the last continent). It really wasted most of the humour of UU, which is the absurdity of the place. The little things like the pre-dribbled candles and the Megapode hunt were the funniest bits for me. Also, for a book about football it could do with some actual gameplay description. I'd get rid of Trev and Juliet, cut Nutt's character down to just a mysterious savant who works the dribbler and keep Glenda as she is and be much happier with it. Think of it as an 'above stairs' and 'below stairs' story about the running of the University- like Gosford Park, but with sleepy, obese mage-professors instead of landed gentry
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I'd be fine with story about juliet, trev, the fashion industry etc but as it stands it's like Pratchett tried to shoehorn two different books together, and both plots are worse off for it
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I've actually enjoyed the Tiffany Aching series more than any of the other books. I don't know what it is, but I think he's really at his best with them.
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Jun 4, 2010 01:29
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Harry, meet feegles 
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Entropic posted:I'm Halfway through Good Omens now. You can definitely spot some of the Pratchett bits. And for some reason a lot of it seems very Douglas Adamsy. Like the bit about how any tape left in a car longer than a fortnight transmogrifies into a Best Of Queen album. Reminds me of this bit from The Last Continent: quote:[...] The Lecturer in Recent Runes had gone to sleep with his book carefully shading his eyes. It had originally been entitled Principles of Thaumic Propagation but, because of the action of the sunlight and some specialized high-frequency vibrations from the sand granules on the beach, the words on the cover now read The Omega Conspiracy*
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Jun 20, 2010 03:02
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plus some of the funniest bits in pratchett are the footnotes, which are really awkward to do outside of a book. I saw a theatre performance of Guards! Guards! and they'd ring a little bell, freeze everything and a narrator would be lit up with a spotlight to read the footnote. It worked, but it really broke the flow of the dialogue and a lot of the humour was lost.
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Jun 22, 2010 23:54
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Nilbop posted:Oh please, he'll be listening to Queen and watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Terry Pratchett posted:[...]In a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.
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Jun 14, 2011 12:26
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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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Nov 18, 2011 04:19
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I couldn't find if this was discussed earlier, but has any other discworld novel had the word "poo poo" in it? I'm reading Snuff at the moment and so far there has been several mentions, such as "putting up with this poo poo". I've no problem with swearing, but I was surprised to see it in a Pratchett novel. Isn't he more creative with avoiding swearing?
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Holy poo poo this looks like garbage.
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