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Terry Pratchett. Is brilliant. BRILLIANT. I've read The Wee Free Men (a Discworld book), which I loved, and now I've just started reading Nation, which is just as brilliant. I posted one particularly terrific quote on the CaC quotes thread, and I don't feel like re-typing all of it, but it's truly marvelous. All of it. So incedible. What do you guys think of that (those) book(s)? If you've read them. (TNÖ, I know you have.) Please comment.
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(February 10, 2010 - 2:54 pm)
(February 10, 2010 - 2:54 pm)
I recently started The Last Continent. Rincewind has... grown on me rather spectacularly. I didn't much like him, and then I read The Last Hero... and Interesting Times... and now this...
Anyhow, Pterry is amazing. That is all. But (curses) I'm not going to the movies until I stop having mildly creepy, Moving-Pictures-inspired dreams. Grack.
(February 11, 2010 - 5:34 pm)
I assume Pterry is Pratchett, but what's that about the dreams? Me no understands.
(February 13, 2010 - 11:28 am)
Moving Pictures gave me nightmares. The end. Soooo creepy.
Makes me glad I don't work at the theater any more...
(February 14, 2010 - 12:01 am)
Tippity top
(February 13, 2010 - 11:30 am)
Well, the only books by him I've read are Colour of Magic, Equal Rites and Truckers (a non Discworld book, Truckers). Though when I finish my books I have from the library and go to the library I'm going to get The Light Fantastic and the next Truckers book and Jingo. Maybe more. And also the next book in a series, and another next book in a series. So already I have five books planned to find when I go to the library. Hopefully tomorrow, if my family let me finish my five hundred pages today and actually wnat to go to the library. but I may not finish my five hundred pages of a book today, it snowed last night, and I don't want to just sit inside, watching the beautiful snow coe down onto the green pine trees in my back yard and melt slowly to form icycles to hang from the trees' branches. And I'm planning on taking a shower today. Sense I haven't for a week and *counts* well, since the fourth. So, ten days. And I also have (well, I don't have to) send my Aunt a Vlaentines email thing because I just noticed it's Valentines day. And I will have to do chores and math. And a bunch of other random stuff.
(February 14, 2010 - 11:06 am)
Jingo is epic. It's one of my favourites. Vetinari, and Leonard, and Vimes and Carrot, and Colon and Nobby... yeah.
(February 14, 2010 - 11:24 pm)
Seeing as Jingo is about some sort of war thing, and I want to meet Vetinari, and I want to see Nobby again, that's why I'm planning to read that. :D I have also read Hogfather, first I read, actually. My dad kept on hiding Going Postal when he'd gotten it from the library, so I didn't get to read that. I don't like it when me and my father are reading the same book at the same time and we only have one copy of it. *shakes head* Quite annoying, when you put the book on a table or something, going to the bathroom or such and then coming back to find it gone, being poured over by your male parent (um, Dad, actually). I have to hide it wheni'm just taking a short brake...
(February 15, 2010 - 12:30 am)
All good reasons to read Jingo. Plus you meet Leonard as well, and he's quite wonderful. All of the Watch books, actually, are my favourites. Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, and Thud!. And the Moist books, I can't wait for Raising Taxes. *jumps up and down*
Also! There's going to be a movie of Going Postal! It will be epic! The actor for Moist is perfect! And the golden suit! It isn't completely tacky! *squee* I just don't like the actor for Drumknott. He's all wrong for the part. Grah.
Ahem.
I'd also highly recommend Interesting Times, but ONLY if you've read Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic first. Otherwise about half of it won't make sense. And after Interesting Times read The Last Continent (which I'm in the middle of)!
And of course there's the Lancre witch books... Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies were my favourites out of those, but all of them are great. Oh, and Maskerade was epic, because it's Granny, and Nanny, in Ankh-Morpork.
Of course one can't forget the Death books. I get Soul Music for book club next month, I'm ridiculously excited because even the first few pages were epic.
And my friend recently ordered The Truth and Monstrous Regiment, which I will be borrowing, um, soon. *happydance*
*done fangirling*
Getting away from Discworld: Good Omens was great. I will be forever distrustful of people named Adam, though.
(February 15, 2010 - 12:27 pm)
If you want to see my comments, visit my thread in BaB called Discworld. It's dying, but has me ranting a lot. Stuff I won't go into now. I've been sooo busy and don't have enough time to read (which is driving me crazy) and so I will comment later when I have read more Discworld books. (If you like this thread, you will like the Disworld thread....) Oh, and Terry Pratchett is brilliant.
~Leaf
(February 15, 2010 - 11:15 am)
I just IMDb'd the GOing Postal movie, and one question pops to mind: Angua wasn't in going postal, really, so why is she in the cast list? Maybe they added her?
(February 16, 2010 - 9:15 am)
My guess would be it's because shows up in Making Money, and with any luck she's appearing in GP because they're already planning on an MM movie and want to introduce her earlier?
*fingers crossed*
Alternatively, maybe she makes a brief appearance as a bonus to those who know she's the werewolf in the Watch, and in conjunction with Moist being all upset because that's how they caught him...?
(February 16, 2010 - 5:46 pm)
I just got Diggers and Light Fantastic and Interesting times. No Jingo. Someone had allready got it. But I can get it next time!
Random thing: in a movie that my sister watched, yuo could only get two books at a library. That would be torture!!!! I'd go there every three days! And that, still, would be bad!! My library is *sadly* in a mall! I hate malls. People are in them! I don't like people. Sort of. *looks around for no reason* *smiles* i do like people, just som epeople I don't like. I just don;t like malls. To many stores. I've sold stuff in the mall. Jewelry that my mom made. And I should hit submit, 'cause I'm getting rambly.
(February 19, 2010 - 9:35 am)
I've read Wee Free Men, A Hat Full or Sky, Wintersmith, Jingo, The Thief of Time, Moving Pictures, and I think a few others... I really don't know. They're excellent though, and yes Terry Prztchet is "brilliant. BRILLIANT." :)
(February 21, 2010 - 5:09 pm)