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⌈ Secret Post #3485 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Book Thread

[ginainthekingsroad]

I'm finishing up Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad (aka Truckers, Diggers, and Wings). I read it many years ago, but had forgotten basically everything beyond the horrific specter "Prices Slashed" and what the Cat is.

Re: Book Thread

[(Anonymous)]

How do you like it? I read the first couple chapters a while ago and dropped it when I got busy because I wasn't sure if it was worth finishing. I love Discworld and Johnny Maxwell so I was hopeful but it didn't grip me from the start like I'd come to expect. I want to finish it though :s

Re: Book Thread

[ginainthekingsroad]

Well it returns to Pratchett's common theme of speculating a lot about the nature of religion, and why people make/feel they need religions, and what to do when that's challenged. And I think that gets a bit repetitious at times, and feel he does it best and most succinctly in Nation.

Truckers does start a bit slow. I actually like the the stuff with the Store best, because I like the culture and mythos the Store nomes have built about the things they've been living around for generations. For me, Diggers is the weakest link, but it's all a pretty fun arc.

Re: Book Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Ohh I see. Yeah I definitely think he went on about that a bit much and it's actually one of my less favourite themes from him (Small Gods was great though, but I agree with a friend of mine who said it was 'Pterry "getting religion" in his own way'), so I guess I won't rush myself on it. I never got past the first couple pages of Nation either, so much so that I forget it's a Pterry book at all.

Re: Book Thread

[(Anonymous)]

this may be up your alley then:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/19/jim-henson-company-wee-free-men-movie

Re: Book Thread

[ginainthekingsroad]

Wee Free Men and the Bromeliad are very different properties, nonny! The Bromeliad isn't Discworld. I'm not a huge Pratchett love, so my Discworld knowledge is very spotty, just the earliest stuff.

Re: Book Thread

[(Anonymous)]

There's always been news about a new movie (or even TV series) for Discworld that I seem to have lost my ability to get excited about it ;~; (Wasn't Wee Free Men planned to have a movie from quite a while back? I've forgotten but it was before I left the Discworld fandom and I feel like I must've left it more than a year ago.) I'd definitely look forward to this though, despite the fact that Tiffany Aching is my least favourite series from Discworld. More people interested in Discworld is never a bad thing!

Re: Book Thread

[herpymcderp]

I vaguely recall those. I remember liking them peripherally, but not really having the same connection to the world or the characters as the Discworld series.

Do they hold up?

Re: Book Thread

[ginainthekingsroad]

Pleasant enough reading. Creative but not, like, uproariously funny. And also surprisingly tied to the fact that they were written around 1989-90.