Reading roundup: The Shepherd's Crown
57. Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown -- This is such a weird and difficult book for me to talk about, because first, there's the fact that it's the last Discworld book -- just reading the blurb on the rear inside flap, talking about PTerry in past tense, made me tear up. And then there's the book itself, which -- I really can't talk about this
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I've heard similar reading reviews from others. I've only barely dipped my toes into Disc world, so I can't really comment and I didn't read the spoiler bits, but I am glad they published it, even not completely filled out, for all the fans out there.
Pretty necklace :) it seems very appropriate.
I'm trying to decide if I want to do reading bingo next year or not.
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See, that's what I'm afraid of, that it'll feel like work. I'll shut down when it feels like that, I know myself. But on the other hand, I would like to expand my horizons a little bit, though there are some things I just won't trudge through.
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The Watch books that kick off with Guards! Guards! are my favorite sub-thread (although the Witches have gotten to be a very close second), and the books get stronger as they go along, until the last couple (and for those there's a very legitimate if terribly sad explanation).
I wasn't sure if Reading Bingo would work for me, but I think having the option to only basically read 5 books and still get to check a mental box for having gotten a bingo was sufficiently low pressure. Then, of course, I wanted to go for blackout and so on, but there are enough interim milestones / places where I felt I could stop if I wasn't having fun that it didn't feel like work. And the 2014 reading bingo I was doing felt open-ended enough that I didn't feel constrained to read something I had no interest in, which is also what I tried to duplicate with CSRB.
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The necklace L made is lovely. :)
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I was actually going to hold off on reading it, too, because I didn't think I was ready, but lunasariel asked if I wanted her copy of the book when we were meeting the other Saturday, and of course I said yes, and then it was there and I just opened it to see how I would feel, and next thing I knew I was crying on MUNI :P
I will be looking forward to your thoughts and impressions when you do have a chance to read it!
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Not that this means that you need to try more Discworld if you didn't click, but depending on which books you started with (especially if it was the first two, which most of the fandom does not like very much) there may be Discworld books out there that would work better for you than you expect. :)
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They are hard to keep track of, because there are SO MANY, and they aren't really straightforward in order. I spend many years convinced that I had read Feet of Clay already only to pick it up at one point and discover I'd never ready it at all... :P
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The necklace is very pretty. I like the assymetrical nature of it.
Yay, Tomek books. I'm really enjoying book 8. All the awkward exposition is just nostalgic and amusing to me.
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I was debating between starting with a later book or going to the beginning, and it's a good thing I decided to start with #1, because apparently I remember nothing except bits here and there -- like Tomek worrying that Smuga had been bitten by the tse-tse fly when he falls asleep on the train. That's like literally the first thing that felt familiar in the first 15% XP
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*HUGS*
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I'm curious, which Discworld books have your read already? (I always love hearing about people's reading order for this one, because there are so many threads you could follow, and it is one of those series where, with a very few exceptions, I think you can read pretty much in any order.)
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