Snowflake Challenge, day 11 = Discworld
(Non-fannish folk, not to worry, I'm almost done spamming you with Snowflake posts, and should go back to my regular 2/week posting schedule once we're past the first half of January. Just bear with my annual spike of fannish enthusiasm for a bit more!)
Day 11: Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.Ah! A day I was ( Read more... )
Day 11: Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.Ah! A day I was ( Read more... )
Haha, me too. XP It does seem like something that, between the kind of humour and the ideas and the just... solidness of the books would work for you if you find the right lever (which I hope you will!)
Sourcery (along with Eric) is one of the books where I don't mind Rincewind too much / Rincewind books I like most, but that still places them in the back half of the list of Discworld books I like. I do think Watch and Witches* are probably the 'right' sub-series for you (I suspect you would appreciate both Vimes and Granny Weatherwax). But if you liked Making Money, you would probably like Going Postal even more, since Moist gets an actual significant moral arc. (But I could also be biased since, hey, favorite book. :P)
*even if you've read Equal Rites, I do not consider that a Witches book, and still consider that early Pratchett, since a lot of characters' personalities haven't settled out into their normal channels yet.
I aww'd at Good Omens being your first exposure to Pratchett, since I'm pretty sure it was mine, too. :D
<3!
Very glad to hear that you like Vetinari! I find him such a neat and unusual character.
(And alas, having osmosed some of the heartbreak probably won't prevent me from arriving 10 years late to that with Starbucks, too
Probably. But at least you'll have a very, er, supportive support group when you get to that point! <3
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Hehehe. :D I suspect I would -- I vaguely recall one of my frustrations with Making Money was that, while it stood alone reasonably well, the references it did make back to Going Postal just seemed so much more interesting than the current goings-on. :'D
I feel like Vimes, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg(?) are the ones who tend to get quotes posted on tumblr most frequently, and I've liked pretty much every quote I've run across, so I suspect you're right. :D
... Lol now I'm getting the urge to go dig up the last thread we had with Discworld recs and start actually reading one of them. :'D I think we ended up deciding probably Guards! Guards!, Maskerade (K rec for reasons of Phantom of the Opera references :D) or ... one of the other Witches books? Sounds like I should toss Going Postal in too :D and I think Monstrous Regiment got mentioned at one point for being the Girl Crossdresses To Do X trope, which is also a fave of mine. XD
(... Now, whether I will actually start any of these before I get distracted back onto finishing NYV and starting Provenance and Oathbringer and whatever else is an entirely different question. XD)
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