Noodles
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Post by Noodles on Dec 14, 2003 14:20:12 GMT -5
Right Jon you might as well create a whole sub-forum for the discworld books (oh by the way im not gonna call you caladanbrewd i REALLY cant be arsed to type it ) So has anyone read the very latest one, Monstrous Regiment? Noodles
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Post by caladanbrood on Dec 14, 2003 14:22:48 GMT -5
haha. just call me brood;) haven't read monstrous regiment, but i got the Wee Free Men earlier in the year, and it was tres good, i'll admit... need to read more of these...
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Post by Noodles on Dec 14, 2003 14:25:26 GMT -5
why am i replying when we're chatting in msn? lol! ill call ya cb cos its even quicker than Jon! and wee free men is ok. Then again it is a kids book.....not suggesting anything of ya mate [glow=red,2,300]duuuude sweet![/glow]
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Post by caladanbrood on Dec 14, 2003 14:29:49 GMT -5
bleh, its called the beauty of spam, phillip mate:p half of pratchett is kiddies and half is grown-up, i never know which is which... though "Good Omens", the book he did with Neil Gaiman is definately his best
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Post by Jonzey on Dec 16, 2003 5:01:29 GMT -5
Never read any Pratchett....
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Lijah
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Post by Lijah on Dec 16, 2003 17:16:14 GMT -5
I've heard it's pretty good...
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Post by Jonzey on Dec 17, 2003 7:28:41 GMT -5
I best find some then....
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Post by Kespoosh on Dec 17, 2003 18:32:24 GMT -5
'Tis, 'tis indeed. The last Discworld I read was Sourceror. I should really read some newer ones
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Post by Sp00nie on Dec 18, 2003 6:22:59 GMT -5
I have read all of the discworld books except the newest ones (ie wee free men, monstrous regiment, possibly one or two others) but i have read most of them. they are good - and it is entertaining to see how the world changes from the first book to where it is now - so much more complex and structured now. they are very good books though, and very clever.
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Post by First Seguleh on Dec 18, 2003 14:29:31 GMT -5
I've read quite a few of them, and yes, his style does get much more stuctured and elegant as the books go on. I read the Colour of Magic after reading the later ones and it really stuck out. Good Omens is definitely the best, though I must admit I love Small Gods
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Post by Noodles on Dec 29, 2003 18:24:40 GMT -5
hey i agree with teh guy above me...sorry ive already forgotten your name .... anywayz has anyone read the science of discworld books? just finished the second one and it is so unbelievably deeply philosophical its untrue dude. It made me think (well, all the Discworld books do the satire level is way above normal and makes you realise how strange this world is!) but this opened up some pretty amazing stuff. Liiiiiiiiiike, the fact that the story Cinderella is actually all about sex and Rumpelstiltskin or w/eva it is is actually about female masturbation...(a rumpel skinned stilt? think about it!) Also it opened up human arrogance - i mean take humans in the first place - homo sapiens sapiens, or "wise wise human". Not only do we have the audacity to call ourselves "wise wise human" but we give ourselves a whole new genotype despite evidence to the contrary - that we are infact the third chimpanzee - we share 97% of our genetic (DNA) structure with the common chimpanzee and possibly more with the bonobos, the second chimp species. As this species is known as pan, we should firstly be called pan sapiens. But then we are not sapiens, so we need to be called something else there. In the book Pratchett suggests pan narrans - the story telling chimpanzee, and story telling is what differs us from other species. I think I've said eough lol!
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Post by Arthas on Jan 13, 2004 14:21:34 GMT -5
Read all of Pratchetts books, save Wee Free Men and the Amazing Maurice.
Monstrous Regiment aint bad, but, like Night Watch, I dont feel its really up to the standards of the other books in his series. Hope this isn't the start of a downhill slope for him.
The Science of Discworld books are great! I love all the philosophy and science behind them all, and it be mightilly enlightening in so many ways, both for Pratchett's and our world.
And Pan Narrans is the story telling ape, not chimp! Not being petty, honest!
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Noodles
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Post by Noodles on Jan 19, 2004 16:44:29 GMT -5
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Post by Deloris on Jan 26, 2004 10:34:40 GMT -5
I won Nightwatch off Transworld
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