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From what I remember Death just flipped Mort's empty Lifetimer, so he and Ysabell made it to maybe their mid-thirties.
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Just to the pet where Death is stopping the king from being a prick, and I forgot what a good character Albert is. Do we know anything about him from other books?
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Snowmankilla posted:Just to the pet where Death is stopping the king from being a prick, and I forgot what a good character Albert is. Do we know anything about him from other books? Yes, he's a major character in an earlier Death book (Mort). I'm hesitant to say more than that because it would potentially spoil a lot of that book. It's good though, definitely worth reading if you want more background on him.
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Thanks! I have read them all before, but it’s been about 8 years (I have a 7 and a half year old), and I couldn’t remember.
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YggiDee posted:From what I remember Death just flipped Mort's empty Lifetimer, so he and Ysabell made it to maybe their mid-thirties. That was brought up in the book, and Death said that the lifetimers don't work according to the same rules of logic as normal time, and Mort had "enough" time
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I could easily imagine a version of Discworld where Mort and Susan don't die; Susan just isn't on great terms with them. It might be an improvement. You'd lose most of Soul Music, but it's the least of the Death books, so.
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Snowmankilla posted:Thanks! I have read them all before, but it’s been about 8 years (I have a 7 and a half year old), and I couldn’t remember. In that case, as a reminder... He's Alberto Malich, an old Archcancellor of Unseen University who near the end of his life performed the Rite of Ash-Kente backwards and summoned himself to Death's domain to serve there rather than die.
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Bruceski posted:In that case, as a reminder... A correction: doing the Rite backwards was ideally supposed to banish Death from his presence and make him immortal. He just didn't understand what it meant to "summon Death" in reverse. But yes, upon ending up in Death's realm he made the best of the situation and became his lackey
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Thanks! The smoking and being a bit of a dick make even more sense now!
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suggestions for January?
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Has BotM done The Once and Future King yet? That's always felt like a depths-of-winter book to me.
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I started a reread of Hogfather a couple days ago and just noticed the thread. I've always thought this was one of Pratchett's weaker books plot-wise, but I've been having a lot of fun with it. I just got to the bit where the wizards brew up the hangover cure for the Oh God of Hangovers and I just love all the idiot banter between the wizards. And the main difference between them and a bunch of bickering idiot old men is that Death's granddaughter can walk through the walls carrying a body and Ridcully's response is "Putting down or taking away?" Or that the magic hangover cure is a bunch of "my brother always used to swear by" folk remedies except with a magic ball of light added to enhance the effects.
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Gone with the wind since my wife and I are going to simulread it for January
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After something light how abotu something meaty? How about Grass's The Tin Drum?
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Just finished it, and found it a really entertaining but of holiday escapism. But I was astounded to see my Eve main's name William Rubin (both Billy Rubin and bilirubin were all ready taken) checked in a fun way
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:suggestions for January? The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, is a classic with just some wonderful prose which has gotten me through a lot of winter grumps or, more winter themed Early Riser by Jasper Fforde is about a society that goes into hibernation for the winter except for the winter preservation corp whose job it is to keep them all alive. Very fun and whimsical
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Ok, here are books entering public domain in january 2022 -- any of these look good to people? https://www.windowsdispatch.com/public-domain-books-2022/
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, here are books entering public domain in january 2022 -- any of these look good to people? Sun Also Rises is up there for me, plenty I'd be willing to try though, not knowing much about them a priori
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Me too... The Sun Also Rises is actually next up in a "collected works" ebook I bought.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, here are books entering public domain in january 2022 -- any of these look good to people? The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the top of my "mystery authors being dirty cheats" list. The Charwoman's Shadow is great, but of course you've already done Dunsany. Topper is an amusing but completely dated trifle.
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I've been on a big Agatha Christie kick lately, so The Murder of Roger Akroyd appeals to me in a big way, especially since it's with my favorite detective, one M. Poirot. That said, The Sun Also Rises would give me an excuse to finally read any Hemingway at all.
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The Sun Also Rises is pretty readable for Hemingway.
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The Land of Mist is at least interesting as Professor Challenger, previously best-known for being in The Lost World winds up becoming a devoted Spiritualist (Doyle wound up getting really involved in this in later life).
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Rand Brittain posted:The Land of Mist is at least interesting as Professor Challenger, previously best-known for being in The Lost World winds up becoming a devoted Spiritualist (Doyle wound up getting really involved in this in later life). I do love hearing about Doyle’s wonderfully credulous relationship with spiritualism. I am half tempted to suggest his book about it, which coincidentally is also leaving copyright in January
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I don't know if that's really a coincidence.
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Natty Ninefingers posted:The Sun Also Rises is pretty readable for Hemingway. This is where I'm leaning unless something changes my mind
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My first vote was "Do another Discworld so I can, as I did this month, follow along from memory." My second vote was for The Man Who Was Thursday for that same reason and because it's fantastic. The Sun Also Rises has always interested me because of its name. Only read one or two Hemingway short stories, and I should give one of his novels a shot. So I guess it gets my third vote.
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Vavrek posted:My first vote was "Do another Discworld so I can, as I did this month, follow along from memory." My second vote was for The Man Who Was Thursday for that same reason and because it's fantastic.
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Xander77 posted:The Man Who Was Thursday is the best novel a video game introduced me to. It's also one of the rare conservative classics.  We don't have an Ion Storm smiley, so I'll share a story: Back on the Planet Deus Ex forums, there was a guy whose screenname was Gabriel Syme, and I think it's because of him that I actually noticed and read the excerpts ingame. I distinctly remember him trying to do a run in which nobody died—not just pacifism, but actually have no one die, by his hand or not. I think he made it to Hell's Kitchen.
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I just stumbled on this thread looking for a different one and I just figured I'd drop in to say that by coincidence I read Hogfather on the 24th and 25th. Glad everyone enjoyed it! It's now one of my two favourite Discworld books, having read over half of them now (the other is Lords and Ladies because I love the witches so much).
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CommonShore posted:I just stumbled on this thread looking for a different one and I just figured I'd drop in to say that by coincidence I read Hogfather on the 24th and 25th. You've good taste. Hogfather, Lords and Ladies, and Small Gods are my top three, in no particular order. Night Watch and Thief of Time aren't far behind.
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