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You have not read them?
Absolutely.
Start with Good Omens, though, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Probably my favorite book of all.
I hate you too, so very much.
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i envy you! getting to read them all for the first time? priceless
since i'm moving, and shipping all my books to america is prohibitively expensive, i've recently sold my entire collection of Pratchett's to the postie who delivers at work. now i have all my stephen king's, ben elton's, harry potter's and more to find good homes for.
No, I haven't read this series. I went on a sci-fi/fantasy kick two years ago and read most of the 'Big Writers' works - Bradbury, Stephenson, Herbert and so on, but got tired of it all and moved on to other interests.
I'll go pick up a few and see if I'm interested; my son will be even if I'm not, so the exercise will have value regardless.
I'll go pick up a few and see if I'm interested; my son will be even if I'm not, so the exercise will have value regardless.
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Oh, that's got to suck.
I have them on my Kindle and audio. Nigel Planer from "The Young Ones" does the narration of the earlier ones.
When he does Rincewind I hear "Lentils are never boring" in my head, makes it better.
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Oh absolutely. How could you not adore Bloody Stupid Johnson.
"The Ankh-Morpork palace grounds were considered the high spot, if such it could be called, of his career. For example, they contained the ornamental trout lake, one hundred and fifty yards long, and, because of one of those trifling errors of notation that were such a distinctive feature of Bloody Stupid's designs, one inch wide. It was the home of one trout, which was quite comfortable provided it didn't try to turn around, and had once featured an ornate fountain which, when first switched on, did nothing but groan ominously for five minutes and then fire a small stone cherub a thousand feet into the air. It contained a hoho, which was like a haha only deeper. A haha is a concealed ditch and wall designed to allow landowners to look out across rolling vistas without getting cattle and inconvenient poor people wandering across the lawns. Under Bloody Stupid's errant pencil it was dug fifty feet deep and had claimed three gardeners already. The maze was so small that people got lost looking for it."
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And possibly my favorite quote from Good Omens:
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
