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Night Watch is the best Pratchett novel I've read, and one of my favourite novels, period.
It was also the first Pratchett novel I've read, which has kinda sucked as nothing else has been as good. Going from that to Colour of Magic was particularly jarring.
And I love Vetinari.
"It's not to keep them out, it's to keep me in."
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Big spoiler:
Each of the witches seem to have a sphere of influence or situation that they particularly shine in, anyway.
Greebo's comparison to a Vixen protecting her cubs that kicked the stuffing out of him was an amazingly apt way to describe it, considering how badass Greebo is himself.
Agreed.
If I'm lucky, Practchett will do a book tour and I get him to sign some stuff for me. Maybe hug him a bit and tell him I love his work.
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I'm so excited that the next book is centered on Vimes! Also in 2009 the BBC did a documentary about Terry living with Alzheimer's, it was really sad. They filmed him trying to read from Nation at the Discworld convention, he couldn't manage it
Though they also showed him at his desk with siz monitors, one had Oblivion on it and he was talking about how he had a group of mice living in his desk, it was really cute.
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It's a quote from the Fifth Elephant I believe!
And yeah, Pratchett is my (and many other's it would appear) all-time favourite author, hands down
I dunno why he had a lisp in the Colour of Magic TV film, but I think Charles DAnce did a great job in Going Postal.
Having said that I've only read it the once.
I know they're all standalone stories but I just couldn't handle reading Guards! Guards! and then jumping ahead and seeing like "oh hey Vimes is captain of the guard now and there's a whole new character who got introduced in another book"
So I hunted down a copy of Feat of Clay but I haven't read it yet. I did read Mort though! But not any of the other Death books
I'm the worst Discworld fan
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I fully recognise it isn't the best one, but it was the first Discworld book I ever read.
One man, one vote
Turns out he's the one man with the vote
Not only does he have a sword, he forged it himself with thunderbolt iron.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this - Pratchett is my favourite author but I haven't been a huge fan of any of the adaptations for TV so far! I think so much of the appeal of his books is in the narrative voice he brings that they kind of lose something when they're adapted...
Just based on the Hogfather alone I'm leaning more toward optimistic than cautious.
On the other hand, because I started reading back when the series was in single digits, it seemed to make sense to start at the beginning, so it was my first book in the series. Still one I reread , though, unlike about half of the others.
Personally, I don't care for the witches as much; I kinda feel like I've read as much about them as I care to, and while I enjoyed the first few after a point I didn't feel like I was treading any new ground I cared about.
On the other hand, I can devour City Watch novels with ease, and Moist and the Wizards (wizzards?) are still quite enjoyable to me. I never tire of Death's cameos, but I do think some of his and Susan's stories are uneven.
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will play dibbler?
I have fond memories of color of magic too having read it a long, long time before i was a discerning reader, but it really doesn't hold up
it's still a good read
And as for infallible characters, Death is arguably one of most fallible of the lot. He's actually a more human character than many of the actual humans.
not
really?
he kinda wants to be, but the entire point is that he isn't human
also, even when did become human, he was still essentially "himself"
A series that can take the characters, settings, and all that cool shit, but packaged into storylines you can actually, y'know, film? That sounds pretty badass.
he existed before humans
like
well before humans
and he doesn't get depressed, just bored
also he understands himself completely (at least after reaper man)
also also, every single character has some defining character flaw
And he was pretty damn depressed in Soul Music.
he existed well before humans, just like the auditors
although he likes cats, so that's character flaw
Discworld is so good
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