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I always heard Night Watch as everyone's favorite Discworld book, it's good to know I'm not alone on how loving awesome Small Gods was. Not that I didn't love Night Watch, but Small Gods was just perfection.
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Moist von Lipwig posted:I finished Making Money a couple weeks ago and I'm considering reading it again. I think it's one of Pratchett's best works thus far. Here's hoping they invent Methuselah tech so this man can write forever! It's weird, but I don't think I would have fallen in love with the books quite as much if I'd started with Colour of Magic instead of The Fifth Elephant. Though I admit that was an entirely bizarre choice on my part.
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God drat, I just finished Making Money. For pure entertainment, I don't think I've ever liked a Discworld novel that much - totally awesome. I'm glad to hear he already announced the taxes book, too 
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Nov 10, 2007 16:31
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magimix posted:Edit: Actually, I really, really like how the different 'tracks' of Discworld books (guards books, witches books, MvL, etc) aren't just different with respect to focus on different characters, but are stylistically different in presentation. Speaking of this, the moment I saw the obvious setup for the next book at the end of Making Money I started to wonder when the Discworld Reading Order image would be updated to have him as an entirely new tract, "Starter Book" and all. Edit: Man I haven't checked that thing in forever, I guess it kind of is that way already, though the first two are only tangentially related to the Moist series. Loutre fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Nov 11, 2007 |
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Nov 11, 2007 15:52
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That "for kids" thing worries me again. I haven't read any of the Aching books, are they any good? He doesn't necessarily write for adults, but his stuff can be pretty complex which is what I worry would be removed for a kids book. So yeah, Aching books: are they as good as the rest?
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Nov 15, 2007 20:15
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linall posted:So I have a question for the BB people who have read the Truth and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Whats up with Pin/Tulip and Croup/Vandamar being so similar? Are Pin/Tulip based off of Croup/Vandamar? Or are they based off of something completely different that I haven't heard of not being British? Or is it just a case of great minds think alike? I noticed that too, and I always just assumed it was a nod to Neverwhere. If it's a reference to something else, then it's still at least a cool coincidence.
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Dec 10, 2007 05:01
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Ah hell, I got 15 minutes in and rated the video, praying it wouldn't restart the video. I got my wish, because now it's saying the site is temporarily unavailable.  Just when it was getting good.
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Dec 25, 2007 05:59
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Finished Nation last night. I've been holding off on reading the Tiffany Aching stuff for a long time because I was afraid of its children's label, but now I'm holding off because I want there to be Pratchett novels I haven't read yet. Stupid Alzheimers It may be Young Adult, but it was easily as entertaining as almost any Discworld novel. I can't recommend it enough, although I was kind of hoping for the fairy tale ending (Nation spoiler) with her staying on the island. 
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Oct 7, 2008 17:55
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Nilbop posted:Goddamnit I thought you were talking about the Tiffany Aching books. I did specify in the sentence it was not a Discworld book  Editted anyway.
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Oct 7, 2008 20:16
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shadok posted:I am ready for my Unseen Academicals now, please. With all of the morbid Alzheimers articles of late, I don't know if I can bring myself to rush headlong into it. The thought of finishing it and knowing there may never be another adult Discworld novel sucks rear end. 
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Aug 21, 2009 08:25
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Group A: The Truth Semifinals 2, Small Gods vs. Night Watch, is going to be the real final. I can't imagine any on the left coming close to beating either of those two.
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Jun 14, 2010 08:15
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Yeah, I wasn't expecting either of those outcomes. Thud beating Night Watch blows my mind, it was a fun book but I always felt the Night Watch was pretty widely agreed to be the favorite of all of them. Small Gods losing is a little bit less surprising, I figure there has to be a sect of readers out there that it offended, that none-the-less like the rest of the books, tied with people voting for Going Postal because they liked the adaptation and it's recently on their minds.
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Jul 6, 2010 21:52
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D-Rider posted:So what's the general opinion of Moving Pictures? I'm about a third of the way through it right now, and it's failed to capture my interest the way the last few books in the series have (I'm reading them for the first time in publication order). I honestly can't decide if it's going slowly or if I'm subconsciously comparing it to the greatness of Guards!, Guards!. :P I'd say most people consider it the weakest book in the series, and I mostly agree, but I prefer it to Monstrous Regiment.
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YggiDee posted:The Discworld Omnibus It would cost 500 dollars, and I would buy it.
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("wider than it is tall!")