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What are you filthy heathens reading atm?

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    #602
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Just finished Terry Pratchett's Rising Steam...gods, I miss Granny..:(

    The way I've seen the last few books, particularly with the onset of his illness is that they're little bonus Pratchett books as opposed to good books in their own right.

    They're not as good as the old ones but I'm happy to have them all the same.


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    #603
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Gbear wrote: »
    The way I've seen the last few books, particularly with the onset of his illness is that they're little bonus Pratchett books as opposed to good books in their own right.

    They're not as good as the old ones but I'm happy to have them all the same.

    Pretty much sums up how I feel.

    Little bittersweet treasures.


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    #604
    [-0-]
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    I read Truckers, Diggers and Wings before. The only Pratchett books I have read. Perhaps I should read more.


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    #605
    Bannasidhe
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    [-0-] wrote: »
    I read Truckers, Diggers and Wings before. The only Pratchett books I have read. Perhaps I should read more.

    :eek::eek::eek:


    :confused:


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    #606
    [-0-]
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    I have no excuse. Nada. Zip. :(


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    #607
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    [-0-] wrote: »
    I have no excuse. Nada. Zip. :(

    Get thee to thy local bookstore! :D


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    #608
    Turtwig
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    I has not read any Pratchett.


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    #609
    [-0-]
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    My father is a huge fan. I'll read Pratchett next year, ALL OF THE PRACTHETTS! :pac:


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    #610
    Turtwig
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    Just to preempt bluey. Yes, yes I know, five minutes per year is never going to finish the book. We shall see.


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    #611
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    [-0-] wrote: »
    My father is a huge fan. I'll read Pratchett next year, ALL OF THE PRACTHETTS! :pac:

    No you won't. We is learning ALL the evolution, genetics and astro-biology.


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    #612
    [-0-]
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    Jernal wrote: »
    No you won't. We is learning ALL the evolution, genetics and astro-biology.

    Oh, yeah! :D


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    #613
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Jernal wrote: »
    I has not read any Pratchett.

    Thank <insert deity of choice / favorite expletive> it's not just me. Got as far as watching the Hogfather on telly which was great, but that's it. Phew!


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    #614
    Pherekydes
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    pauldla wrote: »
    Read this a while back, and started it again recently while sitting at the table waiting for my tea. Very well written and informative.

    51T5R64P3HL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

    Read it. Most excellent and informative.


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    #615
    Corkfeen
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    I've only read one Terry Pratchett book, I'm sorry guys. :(


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    #616
    MagicMarker
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    I read some of Small Gods, but tbh I found it a bit meh. Didn't finish it.


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    #617
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    I read some of Small Gods, but tbh I found it a bit meh. Didn't finish it.

    I find I can get bored with some of his books, and I wouldn't think to read them back to back like other series. But he can be funny, and his footnotes are great.


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    #618
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    In 1983 I ran screaming from 8th Amendment Ireland straight into the arms of The Colour of Magic* and I knew there was sanity in the world after all.

    Wasn't really hooked until Equal Rites tho...


    One of the dogs recently ate the cover off my 1983 1st edition :(


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    #619
    keane2097
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    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    In 1983 I ran screaming from 8th Amendment Ireland straight into the arms of The Colour of Magic* and I knew there was sanity in the world after all.

    Wasn't really hooked until Equal Rites tho...


    One of the dogs recently ate the cover off my 1983 1st edition :(

    I remember not being mad about Equal Rites - is that the one with the little girl who wants to be a wizard?

    I've only read a couple of them but do remember being on a train from Dublin to Tralee years ago and having to put one away because I couldn't stop guffawing at the top of my lungs.

    I believe the lines that did the damage may have been
    In a distant forest a wolf howled, felt embarrassed when no one joined in, and stopped

    and the bit about Mount Oolskunrahod or "Mount who is this fool who does not know what a mountain is?"!


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    #620
    robindch
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Mount Oolskunrahod or "Mount who is this fool who does not know what a mountain is?"!
    An old gag, that one:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n#Toponymy


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    #621
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    robindch wrote: »
    An old gag, that one:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n#Toponymy

    The old ones are the best!


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    #622
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Lazarus thread - arise

    Got Hitch's 'The Missionary Position' and Paddy Doyle's 'The God Squad' from the library today.

    TMP - Halfway through already and should polish it off in the morning (for some strange reason, I thought about Hitler and Czechoslovakia when typing that)

    The other one will be an emotionally tougher read and I'll take my time over it.

    Interesting though that I couldn't find any reference on boards to one of St. Tzer's dodgiest groupies/donors, 'John-Roger' of the 'Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness' aka 'MSIA' aka 'Messiah'

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_of_Spiritual_Inner_Awareness
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-Roger

    Life ain't always empty.



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