Happy Fun Time Meme Hour Show!
1. Post and I'll pick one thing off your interests list and ask you five questions about it.
2. Post this on your journal so you may do the same to your friends.
3. Hopefully we will learn more about each other and new fandoms!
So furikku asks about Terry Pratchett:
1) Which series (different Discworld areas count as individual serieses) is your favorite?
Right now I'd say its the Vimes and the Ankh-Morpokh Watch books. But the Weatherwax/Aching Witch books are a close second and if/when the last of those comes out it might pull ahead...
2) If you could pick one Pratchett character to be your roomie, who would you pick and why?
I'd say Maurice because I'd like a kitty and Greebo would attack everything in the neighborhood and You is Granny's cat...
3) If you could live anywhere on the Discworld (assuming you'd have an equivalent housing and job situation to what you've got now), where would you and why?
I could see myself opening a small hotel in Lancre that catered to the burgeoning Ramtops Tourist industry. See the Lancre Gorge! See the other gorge! Enjoy the Dwarf Bread Experience!
4) What do you feel Pratchett's greatest strength and weakness as a writer are?
His greatest strength is his characters. They have a depth and realism to them no matter how fantastic. I'd say his biggest weakness of late has been a tendency to drop in some new concept (the Devices, the Expanding Box, etc) as something that has been around forever but no one has paid any attention to or knew about until recently...
5) When did you first read a Pratchett book?
Oddly it a non-Discworld series and I didn't know it was his until YEARS after I'd become a fan thru that series. Pratchett has a kids series called "The Bromeliad" that I read way back in grade school. Its urban gnomes/wee folk who live in a super-market or something and its being demolished, so they have to migrate somewhere else. Very Borrowers/Littles/etc type thing, which I was on a kick for at one point. Much later I looked over a synopsis of the series while looking at books done by Pratchett and had a "Holy shit, I've read those" moment...
2. Post this on your journal so you may do the same to your friends.
3. Hopefully we will learn more about each other and new fandoms!
So furikku asks about Terry Pratchett:
1) Which series (different Discworld areas count as individual serieses) is your favorite?
Right now I'd say its the Vimes and the Ankh-Morpokh Watch books. But the Weatherwax/Aching Witch books are a close second and if/when the last of those comes out it might pull ahead...
2) If you could pick one Pratchett character to be your roomie, who would you pick and why?
I'd say Maurice because I'd like a kitty and Greebo would attack everything in the neighborhood and You is Granny's cat...
3) If you could live anywhere on the Discworld (assuming you'd have an equivalent housing and job situation to what you've got now), where would you and why?
I could see myself opening a small hotel in Lancre that catered to the burgeoning Ramtops Tourist industry. See the Lancre Gorge! See the other gorge! Enjoy the Dwarf Bread Experience!
4) What do you feel Pratchett's greatest strength and weakness as a writer are?
His greatest strength is his characters. They have a depth and realism to them no matter how fantastic. I'd say his biggest weakness of late has been a tendency to drop in some new concept (the Devices, the Expanding Box, etc) as something that has been around forever but no one has paid any attention to or knew about until recently...
5) When did you first read a Pratchett book?
Oddly it a non-Discworld series and I didn't know it was his until YEARS after I'd become a fan thru that series. Pratchett has a kids series called "The Bromeliad" that I read way back in grade school. Its urban gnomes/wee folk who live in a super-market or something and its being demolished, so they have to migrate somewhere else. Very Borrowers/Littles/etc type thing, which I was on a kick for at one point. Much later I looked over a synopsis of the series while looking at books done by Pratchett and had a "Holy shit, I've read those" moment...