Post #202,144
4/6/05 2:36:59 AM
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Or_____Small Gods
Terry Pratchett's (for benefit of the Bio One, if not yet aware of Discworld?)
salubrious and perspicuous explanation of the quantitative effect of faith; surely a more homologous model of the progression
godGodGOD!GOD!!
than all the archaic rhetoric of legions of robed ones, each tryin for a corner office == more converts to build it Bigger.
Pratchett For Anti-[Anti-(Anti)]Christ !!
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Post #202,173
4/6/05 10:42:59 AM
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Pratchett is VERY highly recommended
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 #202,210
4/6/05 12:23:09 PM
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Annoyingly DNA-esque to my British mind.
Peter
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Post #202,176
4/6/05 11:00:27 AM
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Oh yes, yes indeed.
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Post #202,192
4/6/05 11:48:32 AM
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You arent the first to recommend Pratchett to me
Someone else has been encouraging me to read "Small Gods". It's on the list.
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Post #202,223
4/6/05 1:39:51 PM
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Move it up the list. Preferably to the top.
If you're like the rest of us, you have an ever-growing list of things that you want to read "someday". And you never seem to get to the ones lower down on the list.
You don't want that to happen to this book. If for no other reason than the fact that stress relief is good.
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 #202,255
4/6/05 7:32:04 PM
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Read it
ASAP!
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Post #202,197
4/6/05 12:02:33 PM
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His best work I think
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #202,213
4/6/05 12:29:12 PM
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Well, that explains that.
That was the first book of his I read. The others, while good, just haven't lived up to it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
-Isaac Asimov
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Post #202,247
4/6/05 5:03:16 PM
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Others are kind of hit or miss
They are genarlly all fun. But some are more profound than others.
I just finished The Truth. Very clever takeoff on newspaper industry. Much the way that Moving Pictures was a clever sendup of the movie industry. They're fun, just not quite so soul scratching as Small Gods.
Equal Rites, OTOH, was a wonderful commentary on gender equality.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #202,280
4/6/05 11:18:44 PM
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Try Carpe Jugulum
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"Consider a perfectly spherical cow, radiating milk isotropically."
-- [link|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002008.html|Language Log]
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Post #202,281
4/6/05 11:37:19 PM
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I think my favourite is Lords and Ladies.
Although my favourite Granny Weatherwax story is a short-story called "All The Little Fishes". In Lords and Ladies, pterry does what few writers are able to do: he successfully re-invents elves. That alone is worth the price of admission.
The Truth has a marvellous scene where William is facing off the relevant guild head. "The dwarfs and trolls were aware there was a fight in progress but there was no blood."
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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Post #202,301
4/7/05 7:28:07 AM
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Did it
It was pretty good - but I give it a B+
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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