Terry Pratchett

[Marianne]

One of my favorite characters in the Unseen University books is the luggage. I liked it so much I have a luggage motif running in the current book I am writing....sort of a tribute to Pratchett.

I love the librarian...wouldn't you love to visit a library like that? ook?

Sometimes I like to read a book and just have fun...not have to think much, and laugh a lot. Terry Pratchett's books do that for me.

Marianne

[dwndrgn]

Originally Posted by Marianne

One of my favorite characters in the Unseen University books is the luggage. I liked it so much I have a luggage motif running in the current book I am writing....sort of a tribute to Pratchett.

I love the librarian...wouldn't you love to visit a library like that? ook?

Sometimes I like to read a book and just have fun...not have to think much, and laugh a lot. Terry Pratchett's books do that for me.

Marianne

Oh yes, I fell for the luggage! Loyal, intelligent, and very defensive of it's contents and companions! Who wouldn't want one?

I wish my librarians could be bribed with bananas lol! Ook!

The Discworld novels are definitely fun, when I first started The Light Fantastic I started laughing out loud at the first page. I don't remember the passage exactly but it was a desciption of how the dawn light was spreading...makes me giggle just thinking about it. We all need a good laugh every now and again.

Dawn "Ook! Ook!" Dragon

[kiwimac]

Esp. Ponder Stibbons, if ever there was a person who needed a golly good ....... hobby, he's one!

Kiwimac

[dwndrgn]

In re-reading 'Lords & Ladies' last night I was overjoyed to have re-met several of the magicians from Unseen University. The poor Bursar reminds me so much of me on my 'duh?' days. Maybe I should run out and find some dried frog pills...

[Yvienn]

Marianne, in which of Pratchett's books are there vampires?

Sometimes I like to read a book and just have fun...not have to think much, and laugh a lot. Terry Pratchett's books do that for me.

Pratchett's books are funny, but they are not silly. That's right that you don't have to think reading them, but on second thoughts they contain some important and wise things. The perfect caricature of our behaviour. You know, reading his books makes me thinking if there is actually no such absurd in the way I or some other people live.

The Discworld novels are definitely fun, when I first started The Light Fantastic I started laughing out loud at the first page. I don't remember the passage exactly but it was a desciption of how the dawn light was spreading...makes me giggle just thinking about it. We all need a good laugh every now and again.

I remember these days when I first discovered Pratchett's books and it was really laughing at loud. But now, after having read some of them, I am used to such humour and it don't have such an impact on me. I can't read these books one after another, because then I can't catch the humour. Therefore I read one Pratchett's book from time to time, when can have certain certainty that it will make me laugh. And fortunately there are still some that I haven't read. So, there is sth to wait for.

BTW, Pratchett will soon be in Poland! I know that for you - people from UK this is no attraction, because he is in England all the time, but for me it is.

[Marianne]

[quote=Yvienn]Marianne, in which of Pratchett's books are there vampires?


Carpe Jugulum leaps to mind. Also, minor characters in other books.


Marianne

[Hypes]

Vampires in Carpe Jugulum and werewolves primarily in The Fifth Elephant.

I believe there are specimens (Angua as the werewolf, but I can't recall who's the vampire) of both in all the Watch books, along with some zombies, gnomes, dwarves (both vertically challenged and those suffering from untimely growth spurts, and of both indeterminate sexes).

[Genus]

There's that "photographer" in the truth who's a vampire. He develops a special flash which doesn't kill him everytime he takes a piccie, if I remember rightly.

[Hypes]

Yes, negative or black light. He also has this little flask of blood around his neck so that whenever he turns into dust, the blood reanimates him.

Good times.

[Genus]

That's the one, lol. Good old Igor is there too isn't he? I love that series of characters.

[Lacedaemonian]

Do you all really like Terry Pratchett? Truckers was his one and only redeeming work.

[dwndrgn]

Of course I love Terry Pratchett. I generally read to amuse myself, not necessarily to learn (although quite often I've found that the more I enjoyed a story, the more I learned - history writers ought to take notes). Pratchett's Discworld novels are a wonderful conglomeration of bits and pieces of our real world, satirized and placed among the workings of an interesting, magical, and downright silly world of wizards, sentient luggage, contrite gods, cantankerous witches, legends, warriors, cowards, political intrigues and a great big heaping pile of common people who just want to sit in the laboratories and solve the mysteries of naval lint in peace...

Not only is it a clever and humorous escape from our necessarily common daily drudge, but it also shines light (maybe just a pinprick at times) on certain foibles we all have or have seen in action.

If a book can make me laugh, shake my head, think and still make me want to read more, I'm all for it. Huzzahs for the Discworld.

I also find that quite a few literature snobs (you know who you are ) don't think that books that are funny are of any worth at all. Balderdash I say. Rubbish. Won't believe it. Can't make me. Even if you force me to drink (or eat rather ) from the Ankh.

[Hypes]

I'd say Terry Pratchett is one of the most entertaining authors today, and I'm happy to see that he is still writing.

[Myla Starchild]

I've always loved Pratchett, as him and I share a very similar sense of humour, even if mine isn't as good. In my mind, Terry Pratchett is as big a genius as Tolkien, and now I'm going to be beaten up for saying that.

[Seth God Of Chaos]

Your just lucky i dont know where you live