Wintersmith

[markyc]

Hi all, I'm new. New not being my name of course.

Anyhoo, I've just finished reading Wintersmith and found myself wondering what the buggery was going on at the beginning. Bear with me because it has taken me some time to read this book just to time constraints. I've probably been reading about ten pages a week or something stupid like that. With that in mind, you can imagine that between the beginning and the end was quite a long time.

Anyway it all starts out snow everywhere and Tiff going off to find the Wintersmith etc and she'd doing something to do with fire. Then it jumps back a few years and gets on with the story. But then you get to the end and it doesn't seem to tie in. Or did I miss something?

[Joel007]

As far as I know the beginning was one scene of Tiffany fighting back a storm caused by the wintersmith. It's possible that that scene happened later but was simply not mentioned at the time, or that it was averted by Tiffany's actions at some point. Maybe someone who knows the book better will be able to be definate about that

[Lenny]

The scene with Tiffany fighting the snow slots in (and I'll find the exact pages) between pages 350 and 351, or the end of Chapter 12 and the start of Chapter 13.

I don't know if it fits perfectly (reading back, it seems to repeat some points that are in Chapter 12 and before it), but if you read Chapter 12, then the prologuey bit, and then Chapter 13, it might make more sense.

[markyc]

Ah. I haven't got the book with me, but I'll have to check that out. Just seemed a bit odd, but like I say, it might be to do with me taking so long to read it.

[Allegra]

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[ommigosh]

Well I have just read the first bit with the battle against the Wintersmith's snows (that is ALL I have read so far so can't say waht happens next but it does look like it is just a POSSIBLE future).

I say that because it ends up by saying that "All this hasn't happened yet. It might not happen at all. The future is always a bit wobbly..."

Must read on to see what happens...or might happen, depending on which trouser leg of time is gone down.

[Fahim]

Yep, I'm reading "Wintersmith" at the moment too and that's what it says - the first chapter is just a possible future I'm reading the last quarter at the moment and those events still haven't come to pass though everything's shaping up for them to happen ...

[Fahim]

OK, just finished the book last evening and so I can answer more properly The first chapter does actually happen - it's not an alternate reality or just a possible future. PTerry just jumped forward and gave you the events which should go after Chpater 12 as Chapter 1 so that you'd have enough of an idea of what was coming. I read Chapter 12 and then re-read Chapter 1 and then read Chapter 13 and it all made sense

[The Sweeper]

WE were on holiday in Europe when it came out, and we saw it in a bookshop in the Scottish airport. We split the cost between who would read it, my mother, brother, sister and me. My being the youngest, and therefore read the slowest, got the book last to readed it. My sister and I still say Meep 7 months after we've read it, with the occasional outburst of Waley Waley Waley. (Why didnt TP spell it from the word 'wail'? Rather than the non-existant 'wale')

[Fahim]

Originally Posted by The Sweeper

with the occasional outburst of Waley Waley Waley. (Why didnt TP spell it from the word 'wail'? Rather than the non-existant 'wale')

Umm ... don't know what edition of "Wintersmith" you've got but my copy of "Wintersmith" does say "waily, waily, waily"

[The Sweeper]

UH, I just checked, it is Waily, but I clearly remember questioning it. Maybe it was a typo or mistake.
Or it could have been my imagination

[Fahim]

Heh. Happens to me all the time too. I could swear that I read something a certain way but when I go back, I can never find a trace of it

[The Sweeper]

Hah! I knew I saw it somewhere. It was in Carpe Jungulum. My sister commented on the fact that it was waley as in the country, and I corrected her, so she told me it was like that in Carpe jungulum, which she had just read. My mind does not deceive me. (I had a sudden urge to put Mwhahaha there, but I refrained... sort of)

[Fahim]

LOL. Well, I'm out at the moment and so don't have access to a copy of "Carpe Jugulum" to check for myself to see if its an issue specific to a particular edition. Will update when I get back to my Pratchett collection