Still the Turtle Moves - A love letter (of sorts) to Terry Pratchett

[suslikesturtles]

The first Discworld novel I read was Reaper Man. This would have been in 1996 or 1997, more than 5 years after it was published and over a decade after The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. It was the first book that ever made me laugh out loud - and I mean LOUD: I recall embarrassing moments on a train, and a very hot face. (Pratchett is single-

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[origamislayer]

The Watch does a decent sized cameo in Monstrous Regiment as well :-)

[suslikesturtles]

True! They show up in the Moist books as well. And in The Truth, I think. LOVE the Watch. :)

[electricland]

I still read Hogfather every year at Christmas!

[suslikesturtles]

Hurrah! Been a few years for me, but this Christmas, I'll follow your lead!

[outdatedclocks]

Moist's books are the best, followed by The Truth //I cannot lie// even if Rincewind is my fav

I'd categorize those as 'Vetinari updates Ankh-Morpork' if anything. Moist is a mobile monkey wrench to be thrown at city problems until they explode in his face and everyone gets very upset with him and he's suddenly invented folding money and brought back the post office while fending off assassins. It's so Vetinari doesn't have to physically go beat the banks over the head and collapse them and cripple his economy, he can just go gently around it and bam money for subway system.

[suslikesturtles]

Right? And that makes Vetinari so great to my mind: He knows how people work. He's a ruthless manipulator, but he does do what's best for the city as whole, by putting the right people in the right situations. Bloody amazing. (In one of the Watch books, Drumknott says to him something like 'If Vimes didn't exist, you'd have to create him', and Vetinari replies, 'I rather think I did.' BOOM.)