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[DotCommunist]

gotta love Jingo!

'oh you have a making things far away seem bigger device! vey modern. Where did you buy that?'

'I inherited it from my grandfather'

 

[tar1984]

Jingo is up there with The Truth as one of my favorites.

 

[kabbes]

The 'kiddy ones' are better than most of his other recent books IMO. Night Watch was the last really good grown-up discworld book.

No, all the grown up ones after Night Watch have been good. Going Postal and Making Money have both been excellent, for example. And nothing wrong with Monstrous Regiment or Thud.

The problem has been that since Night Watch there have been far too many "Discworld-lite" books.

 

[kabbes]

And my favourite is actually Witches Abroad.

I've been buying them in hardback since about that time, come to think of it. Reaper Man was the point that I started getting them all in hardback as they came out, although I have Pyramids in harback too. I started to read them when Mort was released, a friend of my Dad's having leant him Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic, which shows how old I am.

 

[DotCommunist]

Never rated the ones with Deaths grandaughtr. Hogfather. I mean, I enjoyed them but the character is just such a twat

 

[kabbes]

Never rated the ones with Deaths grandaughtr. Hogfather. I mean, I enjoyed them but the character is just such a twat

It contains some of the very best lines though:

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

And I had to look up the precise words, but one of my favourite exchanges in all the Discworld books:

Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

 

[kabbes]

And not to forget:

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

 

[al]

al: do you actually have a copy in your hands? Online thingies seem to suggest it'll be available on the 8th Oct.

yep - got it in front of me, Smiths are selling it for £12.99

 

[el-ahrairah]

I'll get meself a copy on the way home. Need some light pleasure I think.

My favourites are the Watch ones. Real politics, tackled from an anarcho-cynical perspective, using cops and fantasy creatures. Sheer genius.

 

[fogbat]

yep - got it in front of me, Smiths are selling it for £12.99

Cheers

 

[tar1984]

I'll maybe pick it up too at some point.

 

[bluestreak]

This was absolute shite. The worst Pratchett book yet. Dull, unfunny, and said nothing about anything.

 

[The Groke]

This was absolute shite. The worst Pratchett book yet. Dull, unfunny, and said nothing about anything.

Funnily enough, I just had a text from my Swedish mate - a big Pratchett fan - pretty much expressing the same sentiment.

 

[quimcunx]

1. Yes. I remember him appearing when the bad priest (whose name escapes me) dies.
2. No. E.g. Small Gods, ironically enough.

How can you remember so much detail from individual books?


whenever I go to buy a pratchett I really struggle to know whether I've read one already or not.


I'm reading Interesting Times just now. It is fab.

 

[fogbat]

This was absolute shite. The worst Pratchett book yet. Dull, unfunny, and said nothing about anything.

It covered football rather well, then.

 

[kabbes]

I quite liked it, but it's a distinct step down

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

yeah

it wasn't shit but it lacked a certain something

i think perhaps it might have been the fact there were lots of the classic charactors there but none of them really got a look in.. felt a little cheated

 

[kittyP]

I wish that I had the time/read quicker, as I think I would love Pratchett.
As it is I can't get through all the non-saga/serial stuff I have backed up.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I approve of this thread.

As do I!

 

[Idris2002]

Quality control has always been a bit iffy with Pratchett, though.

Every so often he turns out a real A1 piece of work, which is then followed by a couple of books where he's treading water.

It may be that this conforms to that pattern - or is it a real step downwards?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

True, I thought Jingo was pretty average really...loved Making Money but my favourites still are the first two and Sorcery.