Post #201,711
4/3/05 4:07:02 AM
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IrLRPD
NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.
Death to Lord Winder in Night Watch. By, of course, Terry Pratchett.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #201,773
4/3/05 10:59:07 PM
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Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment - which read first?
Is my delicious quandary.
Must..
Ration..
THE PRATCHETTS
They have to last through the end of the cabal / impeachment, whichever comes first.
To run out of effective antitoxins -- The Horror of that.
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Post #201,774
4/3/05 11:02:15 PM
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I prefer Night Watch slightly
They are pretty close to independent. Night Watch happens at the same time and well before Monstrous Regiment. I'd explain but it is all quantum.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #201,780
4/3/05 11:32:16 PM
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Only one way to do it.
In order of first publication date. Best way to watch the author's skill and concepts progress.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #201,797
4/4/05 1:12:52 AM
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Ahh.. makes oodles of sense.
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Post #201,789
4/3/05 11:59:42 PM
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File away for when your kid gets older
Pratchett wrote several kids books. He revisits the Pied Piper myth in "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Only this time the whole rat-catching thing is a scam run by a cat. Death (and Death of Rats) make cameo appearances.
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Post #201,800
4/4/05 2:38:53 AM
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Yup
I've even read some of his kids books.
Right now, of course, Sam is more interested in chewing on books than reading them. Or being read to. Though he sometimes likes the pictures and he likes nursery rhymes.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #201,806
4/4/05 8:03:40 AM
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Yep
My 10-year-old reads the Pratchett "kid's" novels on his own (as do I - The Amazing Maurice was brilliant), but the older ones he gets read to him at night, with appropriate commentary interspersed. Although Pratchett isn't all that bad when it comes to things a 10-year-old needs explanations for.
Now, Piers Anthony... shudder. Those didn't last long as bedtime stories. I had read them far too long ago to recall with any detail what a gratuitously dirty old man he is... :-P
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #201,807
4/4/05 8:50:37 AM
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Ummm, yeah. Obsessed he is with...
Doing his sister, too.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Military Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #201,813
4/4/05 9:50:42 AM
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I much prefer the Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment is suffering from "next in series" syndrome, IMHO. I was considering whether Discworld is still the bst thing around, and then Going Postal came out and cured me of my sacrilegious doubt :) .
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Post #201,903
4/4/05 9:25:59 PM
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I preferred Monstrous Regiment.
There was something I found uncomfortable about Night Watch. Maybe it was the fact that pterry went back and created a story about the backstory he'd built up over a few novels. :-/ (It didn't work that well for George Lucas...)
I should get it out again, though, and read it again just to make sure.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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