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by dcminter 2y ago
Stephen Briggs, who adapted several of the works for the stage, said the dialogue was an absolute gift for that. Think of how the "Dread Portal" scene in Guards Guards! would play out on stage and one sees exactly what he means.
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by dcminter 2y ago
They seem very distinct to me - the mutual affinity with London seems much stronger than any cross literature bonds there. I do remember thinking Kraken was a little Gaimanesque though so that suggests at least a transitive link to Pratchet
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by dcminter 2y ago
I saw or read an interview with Terry once where he said something like: "If at 16 you don't think LotR is the best story in the world then there's probably something wrong with you, and if at 45 you still think it's the
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by dcminter 2y ago
Be warned, I found it a bit depressing though. Never meet your heroes they say...
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by dcminter 2y ago
Perhaps you should try one of his other 60 or so books some time? Seems a bit narrow minded otherwise.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Well, I guess...? Tonally they feel completely different and Good Omens draws a lot of its DNA from The Omen (and, wonderfully, Richmal Crompton) whereas I don't see any of that in Sourcery. I find it hard to see Good Omens as a do-ove
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by dcminter 2y ago
I used to do this too - it used to be that after you passed the first couple of pages of results from the major/mainstream sites the rest would be minor personal websites, forums, and similar. Find one good article on one of them and i
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by dcminter 2y ago
"The trouble with you, Ibid, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything" :D So many good gags in that one. I love the cinematic flashback scenes while Pteppic is falling off the wall. Plus it's w
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by dcminter 2y ago
The Truth definitely spends some time parodying ATPM (a film I adore) and is one of my favourite PTerry novels. I re-read it last week as it happens.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Really!? I must have missed that; I genuinely thought you must be talking about Java but couldn't make the description fit!
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by dcminter 2y ago
Could you explain? I don't see much similarity between them.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I think Susannah Clarke is the only living author I can think of who would inspire the same enthusiasm from me upon news of a new book from them. Alas, she is not quite as prolific as PTerry :) Mustn't grumble though, it's not l
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by dcminter 2y ago
Did you get all the fonts and other printing terms in The Truth? Did you get all the philosopher and academia jokes in Pyramids? Did you really understand all of Vimes' middle-aged gloom as a youth? More power to your elbow if so, but
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by dcminter 2y ago
I'm with you on Moist. As for Unseen Academicals - yes, I think that was one of the ones where Alzheimers was really getting its teeth into him. Raising Steam is similar. There's a point where you get a lot of rather similar monol
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by dcminter 2y ago
Not to mention that it's also about the difference between religion and the church!
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by dcminter 2y ago
This sounds like you might have read only the early novels which, yes, were mainly silly. Try Night Watch perhaps? There's a bit of background silliness - residual from all the world building that's gone on before - but to me it&#
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by dcminter 2y ago
There were real semaphore systems used for communication. Then he layered a lot of early telegraph stuff on top of that, popped some of his own invention into the mix and finally used the rest to parody internet and mobile phones. It&#x27
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by dcminter 2y ago
> I picked up Equal Rites soon after it came out when I was eighteen I read Colour of Magic when I was 13 I think. It might have been a year or two later; a friend's mother had heard the Radio 4 "Woman's Hour" reading
619.
by dcminter 2y ago
I did too (a long time ago when I was 13). But I think there was a change in tone with and continuing after Equal Rites, in that the characters and story were a bit more thorough rather than being, essentially, a sketch-show vehicle for par
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by dcminter 2y ago
His very last book has Esk in it. I understand the view, I just don't agree. It has lots of nice subtle jokes in it and was the first to have a bit more depth to the story rather than being a slightly scattered and episodic parody of t
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by dcminter 2y ago
I mean addressing the initial proposition - of course a work of satire/parody of the real world is going to be a better basis for thinking about the real world than a work of escapism! The rest of it, I think, won't persuade any
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by dcminter 2y ago
For desktop software I think JetBrains have the right model here; it's a subscription, but at the end of the year you have a perpetual license to the version from the start of the year. If I decide I don't want the subscription wi
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by dcminter 2y ago
A language that demarks code blocks with curly braces {} instead of whitespace, begin/end keywords, round brackets (), etc. They often share other syntax similarities but not one particular common set across all of them.
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by dcminter 2y ago
> Plus I have money. This book costs about as much as a good bottle of wine or a bad bottle of whiskey. Exactly. A few years ago I did a really aggressive weeding out of my bookshelves as things were getting far too cluttered. In the pro
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by dcminter 2y ago
> How come is it in demand? It's a curly-brace language with some solid decisions (e.g. default immutability) that produces static binaries and without a need for a virtual machine, while making some guarantees that eliminate a swat
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by dcminter 2y ago
Because we all know what happens if we're not the customer. I have this; I bought it because I want to reward the author for producing a quality work, and because I want to encourage the publishers to produce other works that would app
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by dcminter 2y ago
I've always wondered about the risk of expensive-to-dispose-of bulky waste ending up on site if the sellers can't sell - looks like you've taken account of that with the deposit system already though. Hope it goes really well
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by dcminter 2y ago
I mean it's a bit gross, but the version of the headline I saw made me think it was some kind of in-mouth camera and I was wondering how on earth they routed the optic nerve down there (silly of me perhaps, because I've read abo
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by dcminter 2y ago
Sure, I can just ignore those articles, so lets open it up and just have /new as the front page. No harm, right, it definitely won't caause a change in the character of the site or attract a different audience. Sheesh, think abo
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by dcminter 2y ago
I don't. Not because this isn't an important topic - it is, but because: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news,

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