What are you reading . . . . Now?

TheJabawack · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, he's a great author.

I have in mind to read his Discworld books in the proper order one of those days...
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7358

I haven't managed to do that, yet. It sounds like a pretty big undertaking.
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TheJabawack · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:25 am Post subject:

It is, there are more than (takes a quick look at wikipedia) forty books in the discworld series alone Shocked

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The problem is not reading the books, I am quite a fast reader. The problem is that I don't have all of them so first I should go at home, take down from my library all of Terry Pratchett's books and see wich ones I lack, buy them and then start reading...

Maybe I could ask them in my letter to Santa? I think he's the only one who colud do it in my lifetime Smile

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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 13373 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Read Ender's Game.
It was okay.

Darqcyde · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:47 am Post subject:

Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11007

There's maps in a few books, plus a giant map of the discworld sold as a separate book

Darqcyde · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject:

I was under the impression that Prachett himself was against actual maps (I think I read that in an interview somewhere), and any and all published maps were produced by the publisher and/or fans, none of which were done with his consent.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11007

I don't know if that's true or not, but... You don't have to agree with an author to like the works, that's the beauty of it :)

Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11007

For example, this song is not about sex

TheJabawack · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject:

In regards to maps, I'd probably look at a map of the Discworld if the occasion presented itself, but with the way the Discworld works I'm fine with just knowing roughly where most of the places are.

Unless , for example, we are talking about open warfare with military units moving around or similar actions on a really big scale.

Then I'd like to have a detailed map.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11007

To the day I die I won't understand the desire to make fantasy more boring than reality itself.
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Snorri · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject:

Mr Gary · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:

Reading anything by George Pelecanos atm. Good stuff, but getting tired of the same authorial voice now.

fritterdonut · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1380 Location: Hedonism

Just finished a term paper on Jack Kerouac's "On The Road".

2000 words on discussing the spontaneous prose, and how it both exists and doesn't exist in the book. Rather ironic that he wrote it so spontaneously, then spent a solid 6 or so years editing and revising the thing to get it published. He typed the original draft over the course of 3 weeks, on a 120 foot long roll of teletype paper.

Interesting stuff.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: