Plus, it has Vimes, on Holiday, what's not to love.

No, its not Nightwatch, but i don't think anything else will be, and we'll always have nightwatch.

And now I feel the need to re read Thud, bugger.

Snuff has a few fun bits, but it's really like a tv sitcom running a clip show. I enjoyed it more when I read it for the second time.

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Originally posted by weeblegeddon:
I couldn't finish Dodger. I just didn't care about the characters or what happened to them. When it comes out as an audiobook, I'll try again.

I finished it. It was readable, but barely. I think it might actually have been better if it was a Discworld book? As it was, the historical characters weren't involved enough for me to care about them and in many cases I know very little about them (Disraeli) or nothing at all (Miss Coutts) and so they never developed much. And I've never really been much of a Dickens fan, so, although I know the stories I just don't care much.

But if he had funneled all those story functions into a Discworld parody? That might have made it work better, at least for me. But it would have needed a much more Discworld ending, a big climax that isn't quite the climax and then bam! Is it just me, or has he forgotten how to do them?

No, I think he's forgotten. We knew it was coming. I'm just grateful he's given us what he already has, and that he's not going quietly.

He's mentioned this before, that she would be the only one he would trust.

I guess we'll see how The Watch turns out .... eventually.

Did read Snuff, did love it, now feeling that faint melancholy you feel when you have got to the end of a book you have really enjoyed.

There were a few bits that did feel different, and I wonder how much (in light of recent declarations) was Rhianna. There seemed to be a lot more sex, for a start.

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Originally posted by Smaug:
And now I feel the need to re read Thud, bugger.

This.

Have given in to the Thud re-read.

Also, thinking more about Snuff, another reason why I suspect Rhianna may have had a bit of a hand in it, is that Vimes is practically a superhero.

Now I adore Vimes beyond all measure, but Pterry has always been quite hard-headed about his characters. Whereas this Vimes has a touch of having been written by someone who is in love with him almost as much as I am.

Also, I adore Sybil. Adore, adore, adore.

Thud is a work of bloody genius. The identity politics here are just gripping.

I also especially like the way that Vimes is not infallible, and even when he's at his most powerful and vanquishing his enemies, he's also a weeping, bleeding, snot-covered mess, mostly out of his mind.

I do love it when Vimes is thrust into politics! It's why I love Jingo. And all the Watch books - I adore the Patrician and how he's influenced Carrot and Vimes and the Watch.

It's that sort of intricacy that I didn't find much of in Snuff. It felt like a clip show. Still jolly good fun, but not as in-depth as the other books. But I didn't find it at all in Dodger.

Honestly, I think I would much rather that it ended with him rather than having someone else write it. Or, if it does continue, then with brand new characters and only the occasional cameo from established ones.

I'm now on Guards, Guards. I'd love to ask pterry if he had it all planned forward that Vimes (rather than Carrot, the more obvious candidate) was always going to be the long-term star of the Watch books, or if that developed as he went along.

And there's always something new you find in a re-read. The prophecy in the first few pages about the return of the king *did* come true, after all, for Carrot.

BBC Radio 4 is going to have a dramatisation of "Eric" on Wednesday, 11 pm, but likely to be on listen again afterwards.

I've never read Eric. It's the only discworld book I haven't read. Why did I miss it, I wonder?

I like Eric. It's a short and rather silly book where we find out what happens to Rincewind after the events in Sourcery.