Favorite writer-New novel

[MathGirl]

I always love it when one of my favorite writers comes out with a new novel. Today I got Terry Pratchett's new book, "Wee Free Men." It's about the Mac Nac Feegle, a bunch of six inch tall,warlike, blue men who speak gibberish with a Scottish accent and wear kilts.
Wahoo,
MG
Ps. The cover has a sheep on.
Pps. Woo woo woo

 

[MathGirl]

Chalk country

Hay, you Brits (knowing how much the English love to be called that),
T. Pratchett lives in "English chalk country." Whazzat?
MG
Ps. I can see Og's reply now. It will be two inches thick, profusely illustrated, contain a large scale pull out topographical map, and kidneys. Oops, I mean "appendices." Well, one of those wet, wobbly parts.

 

[Guest]

Dear MG:

You are starting to come across as cute. Just a warning.

sincerely, Perdita

 

[MathGirl]

I'll soon put a stop to that!

Originally posted by perdita Dear MG: You are starting to come across as cute. Just a warning.

Dear Perdita,
Thank you for the warning. I'm taking measures to stamp out cuteness wherever it rears its ugly head.
MG

 

[Guest]

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Favorite writer-New novel

Available for in-store pickup now from: $16.99
The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett (Author)

Dear Nosey,
Did I mention that I have a copy? TP's books for children can be read by children. The humor is way over their heads, though.
MG

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Favorite writer-New novel

 

[raphy]

Ooh, a new Pratchett.

Now, where did I leave my credit card....

 

[ffreak]

I thought I just saw a mermaid swim by with a bag of books.

You didn't lose your card, did you?


We're talking books all over the place tonight. I long ago realized I could not work in a bookstore. At the end of each week I would still owe them money.

When I go to a bookstore now, it is a painful experience to not be able to buy from so many authors I like.

Some people buy clothes and say they cannot afford books.

Go naked! Read more.

(I still wear clothes to the bookstore and library, though, don't want to scare the little kids)

 

[ffreak]

MG: I don't think there is anything you can do about that cute butt.

 

[raphy]

No, I didn't lose my credit card. If I did, I might have a chance at finding it again, which would mean I might actually be able to buy the Pratchett.

Unfortunately, I know exactly where it is. It's in that ATM over there ----------------> where it's been since last night when the machine said "Card retained, please contact your bank"

 

[Guest]

MG: I don't think there is anything you can do about that cute butt.

It's not her butt I was warning her about, Eff. She knows what I meant so that's OK if you don't.

Perdita

 

[ffreak]

See, just when I manage to delude myself that I know what the hell I'm talking about, people start expecting me to know what they're talking about.

(or something about like that, I think)

Hey, raphy, I didn't know you had a bank. Can I have a loan?

(last time an Absolute Turd Machine decided it liked my card so well it wouldn't give it back, it took me three days to negotiate its return. - They kept insisting that I had to have money in the Bank. I kept telling them the idea was for me to take money out of the bank. They didn't understand.)

 

[raphy]

Damnit, FF, that was going to be *my* line of argument with them.. But if I didn't work for you, I guess it probably won't work for me either.

 

[ffreak]

This may be opposite to the intent of the thread, but a new author in my list that I'm going to be watching for:

Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones - loved it.

 

[Chicklet]

I really like Dean Koontz but lately he's been writing...well...maybe not crap, but not what I want him to write. I keep buying them, reading them, and being disapointed = (

-Chicklet

 

[ffreak]

Dean is one of the shyist, nicest, guys you'd ever want to meet. My wife and I helped-out at his first book signing (at a little SF/Mystery book store in Tustin, CA). He came in expecting to meet maybe a few readers in the store curious enough to ask who he was. Three hours later, with the line still wrapped into the parking lot, the owner of the store asked if he wanted to quit. He said "As long as these people came all the way out here, the least I can do is sign their books and say thanks."

He wrote two books on writing - they're both good.

His only real writing flaw IMHO is that his characters are flat. They are either from the Angels in Heaven, or trained by Lucifer himself - no in-between. He can write a good plot and tell a good story, but it's always about extreme good vs extreme evil.

What do I know, he's the one with the $30 million contract for 3 books/movies. Not that the pressure would force a writer to push a book out before they were satisfied or anything.

 

[Guest]

Re: Chalk country

Hay, you Brits (knowing how much the English love to be called that),
T. Pratchett lives in "English chalk country." Whazzat?

Brit here, piping up to answer.

It is actually my part of England. Most of Dorest, Devon, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Sussex is on 'chalk' land. There's a village called Cerne Abbas in central Dorset, on a hill overlooking it is the Cerne Abbas Giant. This figure was carved out of the hillside, and because of the chalk beneath the ground, it is white. The interesting part of him is his big willy. *giggle* Please indulge me here, I love this place, and visit regularly. Here's a pic (notice the sheep?), and a little information about it...

http://www.katiespicer.com/posts/cerne.jpg

"Upon a hill rising from the small Dorset village of Cerne Abas, the 60-meter tall Cerne giant and the Maypole mound above his head have marked a fertility power place since ancient times. The deep trenches (cut into the chalk rock of the hillside) outlining the giant's form have been maintained by generation after generation of local inhabitants since at least the 2nd millennium BC. Reporting on pagan May Day festivities in his 'Anatomy of Abuses' (1583), Philip Stubbs wrote:

"Hundreds of men, women, and children go off to the woods and groves and spend all the night in pastimes, and in the morning return with birch boughs and branches of trees to deck their assembles withall....I have heard it credibly reported by men of great gravity that, of a hundred maids going to the woods, there have scarcely the third part of them returned home again as they went."

Maypole dancing still occurred at the site as recently as 1635 when Christian authorities finally suppressed the pagan festivals. During prudish Victorian times the trenches of the giant's penis were filled with dirt and hidden beneath grass. The giant, whose name may derive from the Celtic fertility god Cernunnos, has the legendary power to cure barrenness in women, and childless couples still copulate while lying on the grass in the giant's phallus. A sight line taken up the giant's penis on May Day points directly at the sun as it rises over the crest of the hill."
- Taken from SacredSites.com.

Loulou

 

[ffreak]

Gives me a vision of a gathering of angels.

Ah, what wonderful place it must be.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Lou-lou-la. I know exactly which spot I'd lay (get laid) on.

Purrditta

 

[Guest]

some books are over Mathgirl's head

 

[Vincent E]

When I go to a bookstore now, it is a painful experience to not be able to buy from so many authors I like.

Some people buy clothes and say they cannot afford books.

Go naked! Read more.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Chalk country

Brit here, piping up to answer.

Dear Tat,
Thank you for the information and the picture. Someone uses that figure as an AV.
MG
Ps. Looks like mightly fine sheep country.
Pps. If my chemistry is correct, acid rain would be unfortunate. I think the chalk would like..... dissolve.

 

[destinie21]

This may be opposite to the intent of the thread, but a new author in my list that I'm going to be watching for:

Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones - loved it.

Did you read Lucky? It's by the same author pretty graphic but still very good. Lovely Bones was good

 

[oggbashan]

Chalk Country

Tatelou has shown the sort of landscape where Terry Pratchett lives.

The North and South Downs are also "Chalk Country" and end in Beachy Head, The Seven Sisters and The White Cliffs of Dover. All keep their whiteness by constantly crumbling into the sea.

Og (who was standing on top of The White Cliffs of Dover this afternoon looking at Cap Gris Nez and Cap Blanc Nez in France)