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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #144345 on: April 18, 2019, 03:56:26 pm »

Yeah, the books have audio versions as well. Toothless speaks. With a lisp, of course.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #144346 on: April 18, 2019, 04:01:07 pm »

Is it worth reading/listening you think?  I'm been trying to force myself through Discworld and it just isn't doing it for me.
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« Reply #144347 on: April 18, 2019, 04:04:03 pm »

Really? Which parts of DW? They had several different readers over the years, and this is entirely presonal but I loved pretty much all of them. Tho few things beat reading the things yourself since you can reread a certain sentance fifteen times and laugh harder each time because fuck me did Pratchett have a way with words that I have never expirienced elsewhere (Gaiman came in the same ballpark on occasion but that was about it).
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« Reply #144348 on: April 18, 2019, 04:06:40 pm »

Well, uh... I don't really know what to say to that. They're different from the movies, certainly, not least of which because Toothless is the size of a large cat, rather than something that can be ridden.

But I have no idea what someone who doesn't like Discworld would like. They're certainly different from Pratchett's literary style, and from what I can recall the books are basically "young lad with sarcastic flying cat learns how to do things differently in a world of brick-headed Vikings". But it's been a while since I listened to one.

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« Reply #144349 on: April 18, 2019, 04:09:10 pm »

Discworld is nutters.
I liked the few I've listened to kn audiobook.

the ending was worth it, at least
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« Reply #144350 on: April 18, 2019, 04:18:24 pm »

I'm only part way through the 2nd one in the Discworld series so far, which I've heard are the weaker ones.  I probably should have just started with the more popular ones maybe.  I think its mostly the writing style I'm not enjoying, it always does scene changes with no warning/context, and the editing is horrible with punctuation/spelling mistakes all over the place.
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« Reply #144351 on: April 18, 2019, 04:28:39 pm »

The best one to enter the story is probably Small Gods. It is a great story, but it does not have many spoilers for the rest of the series, if I remember correctly.
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« Reply #144352 on: April 18, 2019, 04:30:10 pm »

First one my family started on was Going Postal, actually... Which, while slamming smack dab into the middle of things, was still quite enjoyable.

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« Reply #144353 on: April 18, 2019, 04:40:06 pm »

A bunch of them are pretty much self-contained story threads that just happen to happen in the same world and some of the characters make cameos (I do remember how he was annoyed by the difficulty of placing stories in Ankh-Morpork since they all inevitably had to include the night watch and that ran the risk of them taking over the story).

While I love pretty much all of it, I'd say the easiest ones/most fun to get into are either the night watch books or the witches (with death coming in a close third). Stuff with Rincewind is fun but highly dependant on who the supporting cast is (last hero for example is fucking brilliant while something like interesting times is slightly less so). Some of the later ones are damn great but you do lose out a bit by not knowing some of the characters and why they matter (again, mostly stuff in AM that includes a good deal of the nightwatch but isn't centered around them).

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« Reply #144354 on: April 18, 2019, 05:19:21 pm »

My boss is leaving, and instead of any of us below her getting a promotion we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<
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« Reply #144355 on: April 18, 2019, 05:47:42 pm »

I liked Discworld for about five minutes as a kid before its smugness became unbearable.
The Amazing Maurice is still good, though.
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« Reply #144356 on: April 18, 2019, 07:02:26 pm »

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?
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« Reply #144357 on: April 18, 2019, 07:07:12 pm »

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?
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« Reply #144358 on: April 18, 2019, 07:44:48 pm »

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?
Raise may not be proportional to work increase.
And besides, what he is describing is more like promoting everyone, instead of just one person.
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« Reply #144359 on: April 18, 2019, 07:46:19 pm »

its more like cutting manpower and overall expenses, since the total increase isnt the cost of paying her
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