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Well, I've got my copy of "Nation" and shall be devouring it this weekend.
Also read recently that Danny Boyle (Trainspotting and 28 Days Later) is now developing "Truckers" as an animated Dreamworks movie (although Dreamworks have been sitting on the rights for a few years now). I still have a copy of the Cosgrove Hall adaptation and wish they'd been able to complete the trilogy. |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member  |
i finished nation earlier today. i don't know if enough people have read it yet to start discussing it - even with non-spoilers. but i do want to talk about it! so if anyone has, then let me know
 ____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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I haven't read it yet, but i want the heads up on if it is worth reading and/or buying.
~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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urgle - it's not out here until the 30th!! And even if I order it from England it'll pretty much get here around then. ish.
I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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*still not logged on the library catalogue*
waits... ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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Discworld may indeed be just a shaggy dog series of books, but I pick up odd little things whenever I re-read them.
Currently re-reading Moving Pictures (which is brilliant by the way, very much a parody of the movie industry/it's beginning) and at the end, ghastly things from the Dungeon Dimensions break through via the movie screen - anyway there a bit towards the end where someone calls it the "Cthinema" that's just gotta be a Cthulhu reference, right? I just checked the Annotated Pratchett Files and there isn't anything in there about it - and the book is out in the car, so I can't give a page number... I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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it sounds like it to me.
i am currently re-reading (and loving) lords and ladies...it's my second favourite discworld book. ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member |
has anyone finished nation yet? *is impatient*
____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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still waiting for my library to get it!
*checks* status : ON-ORDER  ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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yes his things from the dungeon dimensions have usually been cthulu parodies. Head of internal security of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Catnip Master in the order of the Pineapple. |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member |
I just find it odd that I've read that book so many times and never twigged that reference. I'm such an eejit.
 I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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Heck, the critter that shows up in The Colour of Magic is mostly tentacles. It's shoggoths all the way down, I think.
__________ AJGraeme "You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking: if you ask for it, I have to let you have it." -Taylor Mali "Science is the foot that kicks magic square in the nuts." -Scratch Fury |
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about halfway through Nation - I like it well enough. It doesn't move as fast as Discworld, but that could be because there are soooo many Discworld books, we've already been introduced, so we can just jump right into the story with minimal descriptions.
I'm not sure I understand the beer thing. I keep feeling like there must be a scientific reason behind it and I wanna work it out for myself and just feel like I'm not intelligent enough. But I also overlook the obvious. I can very much understand "Daphne's" POV - I asked nearly the same questions. I'm not done with it yet, but fionn - if yer gonna explode, I don't mind spoilers. I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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i can has Nation!
Whoot! ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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i can also has the folklore of the discworld.
yay for libraries. ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member |
i want
also i want the illustrated wee free men, dispite me already having the book. ____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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I am enjoying Nation much more than folklore of the discworld, which, quite apart from Jacqueline Simpsons jibe about accountants, which for some reason put her in my bad books, I found was neither as funny nor taught me as much new information than I would have liked it to be/to have.
~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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I hate it when you finish a good book, because it means the other not as good books waiting to be read or not as tempting.
~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member |
smaugy, is folklore not too good? it's on my christmas list - worth getting or not?
nation, i need to read again i think. what was your opinion? and maeve too, have you finished it now? ____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member |
oh I finished it about a month ago.
I think I need to read it again too. It wasn't quite what I expected from Terry Pratchett (it seemed a bit light) but I enjoyed it. I would really like to see a tree-climbing octopus!I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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