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Hell Yes!

Hogfather all the way!!! :L Though anything with Death in it was my fave as a kid! :P Just loved him. Made the whole idea of dying a lot less scary and also made me blurt of a lot of possibly inappropriate things in hospitals/funerals...etc about how wouldn't it be nice if a 7ft Skeleton turned up with a scythe. With recollection a small, curl haired nine year old blurting this out in a hospital ward full of people in pain may have been taken wrong by 90% of the patients, though several did agree and one quoted him :P

I just love the humour in them as well as the deep, pretty hard hitting bits and analogies of the human condition!

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THELITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THENSHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU 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.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

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death talks in all caps? I'm a fan already xD

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Oh, yes, the art books are great! Kidby is an awesome illustrator, and I love his characterizations (his Eastwood-esque Vimes is spot on). I even like Kriby's garish cover art (the ones on the British paperbacks).

(I forgot, I also have a few pewter miniatures, including Death with cats and frying pan, and the Librarian (ook!), that I picked up during a trip to the UK some years ago. When I start adding it all up I guess I have a nice little Discworld collection of assorted items.)

That sounds like a nice collection. You went on a trip to the UK? Did you enjoy it? I've lived in England my entire life, so I don't see it as an amazing place where all is polite and nice. :P (I personally think Americans are a lot more cheerful than us Brits, anyway)

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death talks in all caps? I'm a fan already xD

He does. It's a different font, too, although I'm not quite sure which one. It's supposed to recreate how his voice sounds like death, and how he's technically a skeleton, so his voice kinda enters the head without the characters actually hearing it. I think it was said that only wizards (and cats.) can see him, too.

He's such a good character xD He has some of the best lines in the series.

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death talks in all caps? I'm a fan already xD

He does. It's a different font, too, although I'm not quite sure which one. It's supposed to recreate how his voice sounds like death, and how he's technically a skeleton, so his voice kinda enters the head without the characters actually hearing it. I think it was said that only wizards (and cats.) can see him, too.

He's such a good character xD He has some of the best lines in the series.

"What would humans be without love?"

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I wonder if the library nearby has any discworld stuff. I wonder if I know where my library cards is.

IDK if I should start somebook specific tho :unsure:

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Depends what you like. For the mini-series I would suggest Witches Abroad (The Witches), Men at Arms (The Watch), Mort (Death) ... for standalone, Small Gods has always been my favourite. You could try The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents as one of his younger-aged books

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All hail Commander Sam Vimes!

I've actually only just started the third of the City Watch series: Feet of Clay. Love. It.

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Yeah, 'Feet of Clay' was one of the first I read and I enjoyed it. :D The Vimes/Watchman books can vary. This thread is making me want to continue re-reading through the books, but I just have so many other books to read first. Argh. XP

It was interesting how the earlier books were more fantastical and then the later books started being more... human? Again with Vimes and co. Although this was also when the vampires, Igors and so on started cropping up, too. :D Apologies if somebody has already make a similar comment. :ph34r:

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death talks in all caps? I'm a fan already xD

He does. It's a different font, too, although I'm not quite sure which one. It's supposed to recreate how his voice sounds like death, and how he's technically a skeleton, so his voice kinda enters the head without the characters actually hearing it. I think it was said that only wizards (and cats.) can see him, too.

He's such a good character xD He has some of the best lines in the series.

"What would humans be without love?"

RARE

Haha, very true.

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Oh, yes, the art books are great! Kidby is an awesome illustrator, and I love his characterizations (his Eastwood-esque Vimes is spot on). I even like Kriby's garish cover art (the ones on the British paperbacks).

(I forgot, I also have a few pewter miniatures, including Death with cats and frying pan, and the Librarian (ook!), that I picked up during a trip to the UK some years ago. When I start adding it all up I guess I have a nice little Discworld collection of assorted items.)

That sounds like a nice collection. You went on a trip to the UK? Did you enjoy it? I've lived in England my entire life, so I don't see it as an amazing place where all is polite and nice. :P (I personally think Americans are a lot more cheerful than us Brits, anyway)

I love the UK! I've been there 4 times, roughly once a decade, starting in the 1970s. :)

In some ways I feel at home there. Maybe because of all the British literature I've read (not necessarily fancy stuff, but things like Sherlock Holmes, PG Wodehouse, Tolkien, Pratchett, etc., etc.). Maybe because I like cool rainy weather. And trees and greenery. And castles. :)

It's a little different in some ways, but it's all good. I've also enjoyed the little bits of Canada I've been to, as well as other parts of Europe, and various places in the US.

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Oh, yes, the art books are great! Kidby is an awesome illustrator, and I love his characterizations (his Eastwood-esque Vimes is spot on). I even like Kriby's garish cover art (the ones on the British paperbacks).

(I forgot, I also have a few pewter miniatures, including Death with cats and frying pan, and the Librarian (ook!), that I picked up during a trip to the UK some years ago. When I start adding it all up I guess I have a nice little Discworld collection of assorted items.)

That sounds like a nice collection. You went on a trip to the UK? Did you enjoy it? I've lived in England my entire life, so I don't see it as an amazing place where all is polite and nice. :P (I personally think Americans are a lot more cheerful than us Brits, anyway)

I love the UK! I've been there 4 times, roughly once a decade, starting in the 1970s. :)

In some ways I feel at home there. Maybe because of all the British literature I've read (not necessarily fancy stuff, but things like Sherlock Holmes, PG Wodehouse, Tolkien, Pratchett, etc., etc.). Maybe because I like cool rainy weather. And trees and greenery. And castles. :)

It's a little different in some ways, but it's all good. I've also enjoyed the little bits of Canada I've been to, as well as other parts of Europe, and various places in the US.

That's good! Although the rain gets annoying after a while. You start to have problems drying your washing if you don't have a tumble dryer like myself.

Ah. The endless amounts of castles and ruins we have :P The many stairs in those buildings really do make your legs ache.

I always imagined getting to grips with British slang being rather difficult - especially as we use slang a lot. Personally, I can say that around 50% of my speech is in the form of garbled nonsense that no one who isn't an English Southerner can understand.

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It's true that occasionally I have had a little bit of difficulty with the language and speech differences (but more so in places like Glasgow). lol

But even that can be fun if everyone lets it be. :)

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It's true that occasionally I have had a little bit of difficulty with the language and speech differences (but more so in places like Glasgow). lol

But even that can be fun if everyone lets it be. :)

I agree, even though it can be confusing, it just makes for funny moments and amusing stories - so all for the better, I say :)

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I keep thinking Pratchett is Australian because my sister went to Australia a normal girl and came back an avid Pratchett fan xD

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I keep thinking Pratchett is Australian because my sister went to Australia a normal girl and came back an avid Pratchett fan xD

Hmmm... That's an interesting association you have there :P

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there was another author that she was a fan of at around the same time but I forget who it was :( she's always been the reader of the family.

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