I got my copy yesterday when I finished work.
I finished reading it at 4 in the morning.
Very, Very good.
I finished reading it at 4 in the morning.
Very, Very good.
Terry Pratchett is....back on form :)
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Oh a veritable hit 
Did you know blacksmiths come in varieties ? and they're very, very touchy about getting it right ?
There are the farriers, the cold iron smiths, the cast iron smiths, the forging smiths, the swordsmiths, and then in came industrialisation and the advent of the hammersmiths and their ilk.
I had my ears nipped for two and a half hours one day by a 93 year old Farrier (horse smith, some called them) who should have had his own issue on Jack Hargreaves
Old Tubal Cain had a lot to be responsible for
cheers,
M
Did you know blacksmiths come in varieties ? and they're very, very touchy about getting it right ?
There are the farriers, the cold iron smiths, the cast iron smiths, the forging smiths, the swordsmiths, and then in came industrialisation and the advent of the hammersmiths and their ilk.
I had my ears nipped for two and a half hours one day by a 93 year old Farrier (horse smith, some called them) who should have had his own issue on Jack Hargreaves
Old Tubal Cain had a lot to be responsible for
cheers,
M
Oh a veritable hit
Did you know blacksmiths come in varieties ? and they're very, very touchy about getting it right ?
There are the farriers, the cold iron smiths, the cast iron smiths, the forging smiths, the swordsmiths, and then in came industrialisation and the advent of the hammersmiths and their ilk.
Call a farrier a blacksmith? Worse than calling a pipe-fitter a plumber
(a mistake I once made 
)I had my ears nipped for two and a half hours one day by a 93 year old Farrier (horse smith, some called them) who should have had his own issue on Jack Hargreaves
M
Did he know the Horseman's Word as well?
Bought ISWM as soon as I saw it in the Waterstones I walk past on the way to work. Read it at lunchtime and on the train home, finished before I got home
Excellent!I enjoyed Unseen Academicals - more character development of the faculty staff, and a nice prod at academic rivalries. Street football got a mention in Jingo - as decorum mentioned earlier - via Carrot's equivalent of the Scouts.
Nation was... different. I enjoyed reading it, but... Not a Discworld book, different in tone and style, and quite sad, in the same way that Nightwatch and Thud! are, IMO, very angry books.
i stand corrected, TBH i didn't rate jingo particularly highly either.
IMHO his early sci-fi spoofs were the best work he's produced (i'm ignoring good omens on the basis that it was a collaboration) the rip off of larry nivens ringworld was especially good. carpet people was also superb, his kids books are superb, his short stories are superb, the only time he ever seems to fall short at all are with some of the "grown up" discworld novels.
i expect that someone will correct me on this ,but i seem to remember that at one point towards the end of the nineties i read an article that claimed that terry pratchett was responsible for 1% of all uk fiction sales, and i believe he's still the only author to top the fiction and non-fiction bestsellers lists at the same time. shame about the movies really.
cheers
stuart
No idea.
I find that he has somewhat of an attitude problem to unfamiliar cultures.
One of his best `Pyramids` was a bit silly, you can see him all uncomprehending at a vastly ancient civilisation, who live along a river, that insists on flooding every year. and have a rather materialistic attitude to death. (they insist on taking it all with them)
But of course people like the Ancient Greeks thought the Egyptians rather perculiar with their pyramids (all built by slaves; the greeks couldnt imagine a freman bothering) and their silly gods with animal heads (The greeks never took religion very seriously, and were rather puzzled at societies like the Hebrews who did) and the CATS!! (If it wasnt for the Egyptians, we would all have ferrets)
However they certainly admired the Egyptians antiquity and knowlege. It wasnt all scoffing.
And as for `Interesting Times` You know, like, there is an actual difference between the Chinese and the Japanese AND YES IT DOES MATTER.
He could have done a better job on both books if he had bothered to try to understand the societies he was skitting.
I find that he has somewhat of an attitude problem to unfamiliar cultures.
One of his best `Pyramids` was a bit silly, you can see him all uncomprehending at a vastly ancient civilisation, who live along a river, that insists on flooding every year. and have a rather materialistic attitude to death. (they insist on taking it all with them)
But of course people like the Ancient Greeks thought the Egyptians rather perculiar with their pyramids (all built by slaves; the greeks couldnt imagine a freman bothering) and their silly gods with animal heads (The greeks never took religion very seriously, and were rather puzzled at societies like the Hebrews who did) and the CATS!! (If it wasnt for the Egyptians, we would all have ferrets)
However they certainly admired the Egyptians antiquity and knowlege. It wasnt all scoffing.
And as for `Interesting Times` You know, like, there is an actual difference between the Chinese and the Japanese AND YES IT DOES MATTER.
He could have done a better job on both books if he had bothered to try to understand the societies he was skitting.
One book describes, black is not the best colour for concealment. It goes on to state that the only book is burnt, leaving the secrets in the mind of one person only.
Lord and ladies
Soul music
thief of time
hard to say hich is th best of them all
Lord and ladies
Soul music
thief of time
hard to say hich is th best of them all