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Flashman wrote:

Da Boss wrote:Hmmm. Vimes is my favourite Pratchett character (he's everyone's, really, isn't he?)

Well, he's not mine Of the big four (Death, Rincewind, Vimes and Granny Weatherwax), Death always had the best lines (Reaper Man is one of my favourites). As for lesser characters, I liked Gaspode in Moving Pictures and for something which doesn't even speak, the Luggage has an amazing presence.

Death is my absolute favourite... I can't say I've read all the books, but I'm a huge fan. My favourites are probably Mort and the Von Lipwig ones, but I love Vimes' books as well.

Well that is a steam ship on the cover

this ios bound to be featuring dwarfs too and with the latest three(?) vimes books featuring dwarfes as kind of the antagonists of him i think this makes sense for the new book as contens...but the cover of the book speaks more maritime scenics...

Well, every new book is good news. Even more so if it´s a Guard one, as you might´ve guessed from my Nick

Then again, I´d love to see a new Death novel as well.

i have long speculated about your nickname... now you clarified that^^


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steamship?...now this is interresting...

Yep, but the paddles on the ship are done by steam.

I foresee L of Quirm.

yep he was longtime absent...last apeareance in jingo?

Hmm....actually could be the Last Hero?

Vimes wrote:Well, every new book is good news. Even more so if it´s a Guard one, as you might´ve guessed from my Nick

Then again, I´d love to see a new Death novel as well.

I predict that Pratchett's final Discworld novel will be a Death novel. It just suits the man's sense of humour.

manoknok wrote:Hmm....actually could be the Last Hero?

strange never read that... tho i know of it...and leonard is in that too? thought it featured mainly cohen...

Looking forward to a new book.

Viktor von Domm wrote:

manoknok wrote:Hmm....actually could be the Last Hero?

strange never read that... tho i know of it...and leonard is in that too? thought it featured mainly cohen...

Oh yes he is. Seriously, give it a go. 1/3 of the book is Kidby's fantastic artwork.

yep that at least has tempted me for quite some time... next month is our wedding day... should hint that book to my wife in no subtle terms^^

There's a sneak preview into the new book:

http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/snuff/

Last night I finally got around to watch Going Postal and I thought that'll be a good place to get this thread rolling again.

The movie was okay overall, but there were a lot of things that bothered me. The look of Ankh-Morpork seemed to change on a whim, but apart from a few shots, it was always too bright and clean. The costumes were interesting. I could've lived with the golem suit, if it wasn't for the dozen other golems who looked exactly the same, down to the cracks and everything. Mr. Gryle was weird too. Seemed like they didn't know how to do a banshee and just did a vampire instead.
Angua looked quite ugly, Charles Prince as Vetinary was a good choice though.

So, any news on the TV show?

I think you meant Charles DANCE as Vetinari.

Not Charles Prince.

Discworld banshees may not be related to the Bean Sidhe of celtic myth. Their vampires tend to be closer to the archetype - but many cultures feature that archetype. Many more than those with banshee type spirits, I suspect.

Ho, the Megapode!

chromedog wrote:I think you meant Charles DANCE as Vetinari.

Not Charles Prince.

Discworld banshees may not be related to the Bean Sidhe of celtic myth. Their vampires tend to be closer to the archetype - but many cultures feature that archetype. Many more than those with banshee type spirits, I suspect.

Whoops. My bad.

It wasn't just the looks of the banshee. He even had a vampire accent.

well that foreign slightly german russian mix i think prattechet does use quite often when he wants to set a character apart from the plain living folks...

and for me too the golems were a bit unfulfilling to see as they looked all the same... angua in this movie i quite liked... she had but way too less airtime for my liking... and i think charles dance played a wonderful vetinari in my book...

the costumes however i didn´t like... that victorian kind of fashion i think wasn´t really what i had in mind when picturing the big whooney...

by the way... anyone have read snuff already? i am about to get that book as a read for our summer vacation... any good?

I liked Snuff, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the previous Vimes novels. Didn't really feel like there is much growth for the character left to do. Not that it's bad though, it's really good.

by the way... i am currently reading :and i shall wear midnight...again... is it just me or is pratchett using in his recent book many storylines that could be viewed from a certain agle as a hint to his current illness? he specializes a lot in free minds, possessened by hivers and such things... i may be wrong here because perception gets fuzzy when you know too much of the author and start seeing things but that´s what keeps spinning in my mind these coupla days ...

your take?

Interesting. We know Pratchet likes to teach his readers about things. Snuff again, has some scenes with the shadow entity that lives within Vimes. I don't think these things could be applied to anything in Unseen Academics though... unless you consider the Goblin.

I wish he would write another Witches novel.

well the witches novels got continued with tiffany aching i think... more i think will never happen...sadly...

actually unseen acadamics was more lighthearted to me than the other recent books of him... and i see a book about those goblins/orks coming up soon i bet... the end was so straight forward to a sequel...

the dark shadow in snuff again...hmm... i like that... the screaming rage in the caves of the dwarves where he recited the "where is my cow" was one of my all time favorite scenes of a discworld novel... my hair was standing on end because of this...

http://www.themarysue.com/discworld-watch-show-in-production/

I'll believe it when I hold the boxset in my hands.