jimjack on 7/8/2006 at 03:57
Quote Posted by theBlackman
Different strokes for different folks. I read two Prachett books. One was fun the other "ho hum".
A touch like Piers Antony in a way, but not as gripping. Although the later Piers have gotten a bit sloppy.
Have you read the Incarnations of Immortality series? A look at the meaning of life from the grim reaper take. The Apprentice Adept are good as well. I don't like to go too sci-fi but these series remind me of Pratchet style of who I'm a fan of.
theBlackman on 7/8/2006 at 05:40
Actually now that you mention it, I did read the "immortality" series, and at least the first of the "Adept" books. I had forgotten.
I read two to five books a week (all genre) so I sometimes mis-remember all the authors I have read over time.
A complete digression from Prachett follows:
I just finished a series (I hope will continue) by Eliot Pattison, the first of which is The Skull Mantra about the struggles of the Tibetan's with the Red Chinese. Good reading, and a wealth of information about Tibet, the people and mindset.
Raven on 7/8/2006 at 07:24
*Smack* we are talking Pratchett here stay on topic! (only kidding)
I am sure Terry Pratchett has been seen and posted on here before, and it is very cool to find he has played and enjoys fan missions!
The discworld books do a great service to literature much more than that harry potter - I imagine a great many more people have been introduced to reading novels for pleasure through pratchetts works discworld and diggers, truckers and jonny and the bomb than harry potter, even if it is now fashionable to not admit it. The discworld books actually make me laugh out loud while reading them.
Now terry plesae get back to concentrating on finishing the next couple of books and thinking about a good future rincewind story!
DarkElf_Mairead on 7/8/2006 at 12:01
Quote Posted by ignatios
I wish I could cite wikipedia :(
I know the feeling :( I don't care if it's right or wrong, usually I just want my freaking paper done!
Lyril on 20/8/2006 at 05:39
I've been a SF/fantasy fan since I was a kid (eons ago) and never, until Pratchett, thought humour mixed very successfully with these genres. Until PTerry of course, and I am now completely addicted. And after many years of teaching English Lit and history I can now pick up many, not all, of his references which makes it all the more enjoyable. A great feeling when you can recognise what the point of the satire is. Even when he isn't quite accurate, like the Aussie slang in The Last Continent, his explanation of the origin of Vegemite makes up for that.
Whenever I reread the Ankh-Morpork novels I can visualise the city as a Thief setting. Which makes them even more fun.
I just wish there were more. 34 DW novels in 23 years is fantastic, - how long was there between TDP and TMA? But there still aren't enough DW novels (or Thief games).
It is also such a pleasure to be in total agreement with ZylonBane!
ercles on 20/8/2006 at 12:15
Quote Posted by DarkElf_Mairead
I know the feeling :( I don't care if it's right or wrong, usually I just want my freaking paper done!
I'd avoid using wikipedia for anything apart from the most general of resources, especially if you are at a higher level of education. It is getting swamped by hijackers, and it lacks any credibility, so is dangerous to use for details.
Quote Posted by DeepQantas
Neutral point of view!
Do you consider it necessary to point out at the start of each post that you are speaking your opinion, rather than quoting facts. Almost all posts here are far from neutral, and one could argue that it is nigh on impossible to speak the facts without spin.
Quote Posted by Neil_McCauley
As opposed to fake fact?
You're an idiot (that's purely opinion there DeepQantas), what is the point in making smartass remarks about a figure of speech that makes perfect sense?
DarkElf_Mairead on 20/8/2006 at 13:08
Quote Posted by ercles
I'd avoid using wikipedia for anything apart from the most general of resources, especially if you are at a higher level of education.
I'm a senior in college this year :D I'm just a lazy one.
ZylonBane on 20/8/2006 at 19:45
Quote Posted by Lyril
I've been a SF/fantasy fan since I was a kid (eons ago) and never, until Pratchett, thought humour mixed very successfully with these genres.
You never thought humor mixed well with science fiction?
Wow. The proverbial wow just wow.
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Wow.
Lyril on 21/8/2006 at 01:46
Quote:
You never thought humor mixed well with science fiction?
Wow. The proverbial wow just wow.
I'm afraid this is just too profound a staement for my small brain. Perhaps you'd care to elucidate, - a simple monosyllabic paraphrase would do.
It was, after all, a simple observation about my personal preferences when reading. Nothing more.
ZylonBane on 21/8/2006 at 03:44
Sooo... we're to understand that the works of Douglas Adams were, in your opinion, unsuccessful? Likewise for the science fiction of Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut Jr? And can we furthermore surmise that you were nonplussed by Red Dwarf, Quark, Futurama, Spaceballs, Airplane II, Real Genius, Men in Black, Weird Science, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, Time Bandits, Demolition Man, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Sleeper, Back to the Future, Galaxy Quest, and The Fifth Element? And it probably goes without saying that you've never played the adventure games Planetfall or Maniac Mansion, let alone their respective sequels.
Science fiction by its very nature makes such an ideal vehicle for everything from social satire to outright slapstick that your assertion that they don't mix well is, it seems, the very quintessence of absurd.
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http://memory-alpha.org/en/images/thumb/f/fa/Kirk_surrounded_by_Tribbles.jpg/200px-Kirk_surrounded_by_Tribbles.jpgMove along folks, no comedy to be seen here...
