Ogdred Weary
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I'm voting for Nanny Ogg
She's my favourite too.
Many, many great characters though.
I'm voting for Nanny Ogg
'An adventurous girlhood'She's my favourite too.
Many, many great characters though.
"Always chaste, often caught"....'An adventurous girlhood'
Carrot and oyster pie?I've one of them knocking around somewhere, left-over from the window display of my shop.
I think I might've given it, along with doggie ones, to my daughter. She's well into Halloween.
I've still got a copy of Nanny Ogg's cookbook, which includes recipes for Klatchian curry and Wow-wow sauce!
I watched The Colour of Magic the other day and Jeremy Irons wasn’t up to it.In my head, Havelock Vetinari is Charles Dance.
I’ve have ordered this, I’m planning on wearing it to comic con at the end of the month.I like this View attachment 69390
All Hail, the Goddess Anoia!I’ve have ordered this, I’m planning on wearing it to comic con at the end of the month.
And I’ve asked the Hog Father for this.
https://www.calendarclub.co.uk/terry-pratchetts-discworld-calendar-2024-315303/
That bottom bit looks rock hard. I suggest that there may be great a-chewin' of that later.This is amazing.View attachment 70480
I want some advice. There’s loads of the Discworld books I love. I’ve read (and listened to in audio book) to various and I generally liked the stand alones I’ve read: Going postal, making money, raising steam, the truth, moving pictures and I loved monstrous regiment. I’ve also enjoyed the Death series. I mostly liked the Watch. I read and enjoyed a few Watch books but the last one I read the Fifth Elephant I found a bit of a drag, I wasn’t that engaged. But I finished it. But I’ve got the audio book of Sourcery which I’ve given up with, I’m just not bothered. It’s put me off a bit. Is it just me?
I’ve got Equal Rites but I’ve not started.
Any idea of ones more like the ones I’ve enjoyed.
Any recommendations?
IMO Equal Rites is the weakest of the books, and Sourcery not much better. Sir pTerry was feeling about there I think trying to evolve from the outright parody of the first two books into a satirical style of his own. Strange that Mort is in between those two.I want some advice. There’s loads of the Discworld books I love. I’ve read (and listened to in audio book) to various and I generally liked the stand alones I’ve read: Going postal, making money, raising steam, the truth, moving pictures and I loved monstrous regiment. I’ve also enjoyed the Death series. I mostly liked the Watch. I read and enjoyed a few Watch books but the last one I read the Fifth Elephant I found a bit of a drag, I wasn’t that engaged. But I finished it. But I’ve got the audio book of Sourcery which I’ve given up with, I’m just not bothered. It’s put me off a bit. Is it just me?
I’ve got Equal Rites but I’ve not started.
Any idea of ones more like the ones I’ve enjoyed.
Any recommendations?
I have read either of them yet. I’ll give them ago. Thanks.The Watch: Have you read Nightwatch & Jingo?
Both heavy on the satire, the former is my favourite: very dark toned in places, though it works much better if you're already acquainted with Vimes' story-arc.
Plenty of jokes--a bit of gore--and more world-weary truisms from the mind of Vimes:
"People said things like “Quite possibly we shall never know the truth” which meant, in Vimes’s personal lexicon, “I know, or think I know what the truth is, and hope like hell it doesn’t come out, because things are all smoothed over now.”Or like this:
“Vimes had spent his life on the streets and had met decent men, and fools, and people who’d steal a penny from a blind beggar, and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he’d never met The People.People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up.”
So it’s not just me then? I’ll give Equal Rites a miss. I did like Mort, I did like all of the death series. Thanks.IMO Equal Rites is the weakest of the books, and Sourcery not much better. Sir pTerry was feeling about there I think trying to evolve from the outright parody of the first two books into a satirical style of his own. Strange that Mort is in between those two.
I think TP got kind of fed up with the all powerful magic in those two not-so-good books and subsequently made it much more jokey and ineffective. To the huge benefit of all the subsequent books.
Too footbally for me, I got the full voice cast audiobook (which was inviting) before I knew what it was about.His later work is generally the best, though Unseen Academicals is an exception.
Geoffrey W. is a 'good booking' whatever he does.I went looking for the Night Watch on Amazon and found this which I don’t remember seeing before on Audible.
Terry Pratchett: BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Terry-...on_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp
Edit: Oh Death is Mr Birling aka Geoffrey Whitehead.
I think the audiobook can bring something different depending on the narrator.I had an Audible credit to use up and was casting around for something to spend it on. I'm trying to collect most of the Discworld series on audio, so I went for Feet of Clay. Now, I don't remember enjoying the book overmuch when I read it (and reread it), which will probably be ten or more years ago, but I LOVE the audio version! I have no idea why, partly I misremembered the story I think.
But I have to say that I am enjoying it a lot more this time round. Perhaps I have just grown into it