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Reading roundup: the jumbo Discworld edition

Oct 10, 2007 10:35

43. Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters -- finally, my library acquired a Witches book! I hope there are more on the way. ( Thoughts, mildly spoilery )

a: clare b. dunkle, discworld, a: terry pratchett, reading, a: jonathan kellerman

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axmxz October 10 2007, 18:05:38 UTC

Haven't read "Obsession" yet- is it an Alex/Milo one? 'Cause I basically only read Kellerman for those two. They're fun.

hamsterwoman October 10 2007, 18:17:44 UTC

Yup, it's Alex and Milo, although there are a bunch of other characters in it, like Petra Connor and some other detectives. Also, Rick makes an actual onscreen appearance -- has he shown up in any other books beyond Alex talking to him on the phone? Also, there are all these random Jews for some reason...

axmxz October 10 2007, 18:20:12 UTC

I think we might've seen Rick very briefly... or maybe I'm just thinking back to Milo and Alex talking/thinking about him.

Random Jews = lol. Kellerman seems to be partial to those. They tend to be preternaturally good, for some reason.

hamsterwoman October 10 2007, 22:26:43 UTC

He does seem to be partial to them. Part of the reson I read Kellerman is the deft hand with minor characters, and part of the pleasure of *that* is the random Jew spotting :)

The ones in this book weren't really preternaturally good, though I agree with that observation in general.

axmxz October 11 2007, 00:02:43 UTC

Jew spotting. Love it. Is that a seasonal or a year-round sport?

My husband sucks at it, incidentally. For all his jokes about my schnoz (which is, admittedly, almost incapacitatingly long), he can never spot a Jew.

hamsterwoman October 11 2007, 02:19:24 UTC

Oh, definitely year-round, if you pick the right spot!

I think Jew-spotting is one of those cases of "takes one to know one". Ditto for Russian ex-pat spotting. It's kind of amazing that from a momentary glimpse one can usually identify those folks, even when they were small when they came here. When I drop in on my old high school, I have pretty much a 100% Russian kids identification rate (as validated by the attendance strips). It's almost eerie.

(My husband is surprisingly good for it for a non-Russian -- for anyone, actually. It's probably further evidence that he was a Soviet Jew in a past life.)

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