Comments | ivy_chan: i can't stop a speeding bullet, especially when it hits the heart

ivy_chan

i can't stop a speeding bullet, especially when it hits the heart

Jun 07, 2011 10:07

Tuesday is always the worst, seriously. I feel like I can handle a Monday, but Tuesday is such a letdown I'd like to fill it with something nice. (As opposed to, you know, work.) Fortunately, I seem to have slept a hell of a lot last night, so I am in a good, wakeful mood this morning. Yesterday I was seriously groggy and felt like a member of the ( Read more... )

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bookelfe June 7 2011, 14:22:21 UTC

Yeah, Tiffany's sensible sensibleness does get hammered in quite a bit, although I think it's also a bit subverted too - Tiffany thinks of herelf as being sensibly sensible, but she screws up and lets her feelings overrun her head as much as any other teenager, and has to get cut down to size.

I will say that I'll be interested to hear what you think about the gender stuff when you get to the fourth one - there is one character I think goes at least some way towards subverting that, though not entirely.

ivy_chan June 8 2011, 01:49:03 UTC

Yes, I was happy in the second book and now in Wintersmith where she's clearly getting herself in over her head. I also like how realistically her age Tiffany feels, she can be petulant or moody, but not obnoxiously so, and I like how she hates having her age used against her but also sometimes thinks: 'I'm only twelve! I shouldn't have to deal with this shit!'

And ooo, that makes me look forward to the fourth book even more!

redbrunja June 8 2011, 02:05:56 UTC

Tiffany Aching is awesome. And yes, the books do have a melancholy to them. Actually I really should give A Hat Full of Sky a reread because I remember feeling like it said some really interesting things about how people function in society, but it's been so long I've forgotten specifics.

(Actually, I read Hat Full of Sky before Wee Free Men and did not realize for a while that the Tiffany Aching novels were set in Discworld.)

ivy_chan June 8 2011, 02:36:34 UTC

These books have a much more subtle Discworld feel to them, (aside frome Granny Weatherwax being there,) so that's understandable. Actually, Maurice and His Educated Rodents also had a more subtle Discworld-y feel to it. I feel like Pratchett tones down the ridiculous satire for the kids, maybe because he feels like they won't appreciate it as much, and maybe because he wants his books for kids to be more serious for teaching heartfelt lessons, I don't know ( ... )