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Originally posted by dayvd:
yea, i thought it was really cool how they found people to fix the harp in Ankh.

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Lyre.

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I had read all his books except for Eric, which I finally got recently and I was rather disappointed. There was some funny stuff in there- like the bureaucrat Hell, but I don't think it can be put up there with, say, Reaper Man and Men At Arms and Small Gods...

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You didn't like "Eric"? I got that book for my brother for his birthday (even though he'd never read Pratchett before) because I thought he needed to have a book with his name as the title. I'm disappointed at the thought that it might not have been very good.

I don't know, some people seem to really like it, I just don't. At least not as much as the rest.

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Never drive a car when you're dead
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Did you get the large illustrated edition of Eric? I've never read the unillustrated one but it was origianally illustrated so perhaps the other version does miss something.

And now I've added to this thread I'd really recomend Night Watch - I'm trying desperatly to wait until it come out in paperback to buy it (I borrowed the HB from the library) but I think I'm going to fail. Very good read.

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Originally posted by Smaug:
Did you get the large illustrated edition of Eric? I've never read the unillustrated one but it was origianally illustrated so perhaps the other version does miss something.

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I bought the illustrated version at a sale. THe illustrations kinda made it worth the reduced price, but I've never felt like re-reading the story.

- Michael

Pratchett readers have voted for their favorite books on this page: http://tphon.marlis.org/vote.php?name=Book

As you can see, "Eric" is the one that got the least votes of all PRatchett's books.

- Michael

although I never got the illustrated version, I am somehow not surprised. It's not that Eric is a bad or boring book, but he wrote much better things.

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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
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i enjoyed eric. but it's not the top three.

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r-ow? i still don't understand. like two seperate words? ra- ow?

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Um. Row as in rowing a boat is said differently to row as in fight. At least, it is here. You kind of put a stress on the ow sound rather than the flat way you say it for rowing as in boats....

I dunno. Anyway, since you're in the States probably no one would notice. It was just a odd image...

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I guess I'm alone on this one, but I used to be a pretty big Pratchett fan. I've read a bunch of the Discworld series and I own quite a few of the books.
It just seems that the more I read his stories, the less I enjoyed them. They all seem too contrived. Now I understand that any work of fiction is obviously going to be a contrived work, but the way things worked out just seemed too ridiculously coincidental too many times for me to really enjoy his books anymore.
Maybe I should give him another chance, but honestly, I doubt I will.

Oh and just for the record Soul Music was my favorite of the ones I read.

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Originally posted by Dr. Soup:
I guess I'm alone on this one, but I used to be a pretty big Pratchett fan. I've read a bunch of the Discworld series and I own quite a few of the books.
It just seems that the more I read his stories, the less I enjoyed them. They all seem too contrived. Now I understand that any work of fiction is obviously going to be a contrived work, but the way things worked out just seemed too ridiculously coincidental too many times for me to really enjoy his books anymore.
Maybe I should give him another chance, but honestly, I doubt I will.

Oh and just for the record Soul Music was my favorite of the ones I read.

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i was just thinking of that last night. i get into certain authors and read everything they've ever written. Terry Pratchett is kind of hard to do. i mean, i absolutely love his books. but you're right about things coincidentally working out all the time. i'm reading Jingo right now. but had to put the book down and search for one of my favourite books, Blue Belle by Andrew Vachss. one of the few that makes me cry every time i read it.

yay!

i'm reading jingo too, right now

what did you think?

me? i haven't read it all yet. in fact, i'm not even halfway through it. have a lot of tests in school...

awwww, good luck with your exams.

thank you

Jingo's a good one. As for series, I think I like the ones about the Watch the best, although Rincewind did definately have his moments.

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the watch is another series than discworld?
out of the discworld seres, my favourites are:
1:hogfather
2:carpe jugulum
3:the truth

what are yours?

just finished The Last Continent and starting Carpe Jugulum now. my favourite may be the first one book i read by him, which was Guards Guards. i also love Maurice and his Amazing Rats (i probably messed up the title)