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hmmm i would object against that. the nature of the discworld is mainly non hostile. also you would not do pratchett any tribute by doing so. it wouldn´t be something he would look upon pleased...
Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm i would object against that. the nature of the discworld is mainly non hostile. also you would not do pratchett any tribute by doing so. it wouldn´t be something he would look upon pleased...
vik
With my record in table top battles, he would be faintly amused. Think of me like.....Lord Rust...
carrot represents the true spirit of a good king. also he wants to always see the good in men. he is hard as steel (as in man of steel in more than one occaisions) and loyal to the bone as well as honest.
i really like him but he is not what i would describe as a character i can fell myself in...(was that understandable?)
personaly he is somewhat a reverse version of vimes. and vimes is someone i can deply familirez with.
vik
Automatically Appended Next Post: lol, yeah rust gods gift to the enemy^^
do you remeber the saying:
"charge men, and let them all slit our throats..."
not really quoted right. a nucklesandwich to who can quote it better...
vik
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Viktor von Domm wrote:carrot represents the true spirit of a good king. also he wants to always see the good in men. he is hard as steel (as in man of steel in more than one occaisions) and loyal to the bone as well as honest.
i really like him but he is not what i would describe as a character i can fell myself in...(was that understandable?)
personaly he is somewhat a reverse version of vimes. and vimes is someone i can deply familirez with.
vik
I understand.
Vimes is one of my favourite characters, Myself, I can see myself in Rincewinds shoes.
Oh man, these books are awesome. I try to get my friends to read some, as I only have every discworld, and to no avail. Why won't people just love Sir Terry Pratchett?
Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats.
Oh man, these books are awesome. I try to get my friends to read some, as I only have every discworld, and to no avail. Why won't people just love Sir Terry Pratchett?
Just keep preaching the word, brother, keep preaching the word.
And get a few pieces of ginger and Ginger Beer!
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for that i´m at a total loss of words... i also have almost any of pratchett books, the non discwordbooks as well and i cant understand why people would not want to read him...
to quote Herny Jones sr. "we are preachers in a godless land"...
and i try to get as many people into reading his books as possible. sometimes feels like i´m a strange preacher...
would someone feel suitable enough as to interpret the meaning in favorite characters and the realtion to oneself?
or maybe not^^
well rincewind you say? got a whispy beard , do you?^^
and there i thought i had the speach impediment...(wizzard^^)
hase someone ver thought about his writing on his wizard hat? i think it stands for something like wizzzer like in the golden age of comics...a true natural speeder^^.
and @ chowderhead13, could you be more specific about what you like about mort? i lkke his decissions but what else is there that you like about him?
vik
Automatically Appended Next Post: eeeeeeeiiihhhh plop^^ hissssss
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I love his character. He randomly shouts "Mort!" at the most inappropriate of times, he is a klutz in his new form, and he is just acting a lot like, well, me! I like Mort because it was one, if not the only, Discworld book with a teenage main character. I felt he did a great job writing a star-struck young boy having to fill a man's (If you can call Death that) shoes.
Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats.
In The depths of a Tomb World, placing demo charges.
chowderhead13 wrote:I love his character. He randomly shouts "Mort!" at the most inappropriate of times, he is a klutz in his new form, and he is just acting a lot like, well, me! I like Mort because it was one, if not the only, Discworld book with a teenage main character. I felt he did a great job writing a star-struck young boy having to fill a man's (If you can call Death that) shoes.
I think Tiffany Aching takes the youngest main character award.
chowderhead13 wrote:I love his character. He randomly shouts "Mort!" at the most inappropriate of times, he is a klutz in his new form, and he is just acting a lot like, well, me! I like Mort because it was one, if not the only, Discworld book with a teenage main character. I felt he did a great job writing a star-struck young boy having to fill a man's (If you can call Death that) shoes.
I think Tiffany Aching takes the youngest main character award.
I don't really consider these books to be DW Canon. But hey, what the heck. She's, like, 15, right? Mort's 12.
Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats.
I have all the books with their original cover art (since that is the art I grew up with ). The newer books obviously have the new style covers. Each have their place.
Love these books. Im really gutted that I haven't read all the watchman ones though. I find them my favourite story lines.
I've read
Guards! Guards!
Men at arms
feet of clay
Nightwatch
fifth elephant
Thud
I think I may have read another, but I cant quite recall...
My least favourite stories are the Witch ones. Dont get me wrong, I like them (have them all) but I much prefer Rincewinds endeavours, or Vimes's struggles.
Love the Discworld series- truly inspiring fiction.
Its particularly interesting to chart how the land and prose has changed throughout the series, from a High Fantasy setting with floating rocks inhabited by dragons described with florid prose, to a more Victorian setting with an increase of wry comments on society.
Oh, and in a Watch motion picture there can (IMO) be only one Sam Vimes: Hugh Laurie.
Edited because I can
Voice acting isn't perfect, but still entertaining.
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FW Epic Bunker: £97,871.35. Overpriced at all?
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And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
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chowderhead13 wrote:
Lord Harrab wrote:
chowderhead13 wrote:I love his character. He randomly shouts "Mort!" at the most inappropriate of times, he is a klutz in his new form, and he is just acting a lot like, well, me! I like Mort because it was one, if not the only, Discworld book with a teenage main character. I felt he did a great job writing a star-struck young boy having to fill a man's (If you can call Death that) shoes.
I think Tiffany Aching takes the youngest main character award.
I don't really consider these books to be DW Canon. But hey, what the heck. She's, like, 15, right? Mort's 12.
I think she was 10 in the first book, 13 in the second 14 in the third and 16 in her last one.
Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm i would object against that. the nature of the discworld is mainly non hostile. also you would not do pratchett any tribute by doing so. it wouldn´t be something he would look upon pleased...
vik
From an issue of SFX - a British sci fi/geek magazine
Terry Pratchett wrote:If I'd got into wargaming when I was a little bit younger I would have been lost to writing completely. I would have spent my whole time painting the little miniatures! I loved the figures. Had they come out when I was 13 I would have spent all my days meticulously painting tiny little dots. I seriously would have disappeared and been president of the Warhammer fan club instead of a novelist.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm i would object against that. the nature of the discworld is mainly non hostile. also you would not do pratchett any tribute by doing so. it wouldn´t be something he would look upon pleased...
vik
From an issue of SFX - a British sci fi/geek magazine
Terry Pratchett wrote:If I'd got into wargaming when I was a little bit younger I would have been lost to writing completely. I would have spent my whole time painting the little miniatures! I loved the figures. Had they come out when I was 13 I would have spent all my days meticulously painting tiny little dots. I seriously would have disappeared and been president of the Warhammer fan club instead of a novelist.
You've just blown this thread wide open. Enjoy your internets.
Let's try to think of actors to play our favourite Discworld characters. Might be fun. I'll start.
The Patrician: Just simply has to be Alan Rickman, for me. I always imagine him sounding and looking like him.
bang to rights man, alan rickman would be the living embodyment of the patrician...
do not let me deatin you any further...^^
have to think about someone fitting...
@reds8n that seems to have me ecaped...
but he wrote carpet people as well and his first version of this was more inthe line of fantasy more related to the likes of lotr or warhammer with epic balltes and so forth, iiric...
Albatross wrote:Let's try to think of actors to play our favourite Discworld characters. Might be fun. I'll start.
The Patrician: Just simply has to be Alan Rickman, for me. I always imagine him sounding and looking like him.
QFT Everytime I read about the Patrician I have Rickmans voice in my head. He would be perfect.
Just started reading Jingo again and once more the scenes between Vimes and Havelock crack me up. Also, is it just me or is this whole Ankh-Morpork/Klatch feud also some sort of social commentary? Seems still relevant today.
While I love Kidby's art of vimes, I have trouble imagening Eastwood in the role, mostly because he's so damn old. Eastwood, not Sam. Sean Astin as TwoFlower was great, apart from the fact that the character probaly should be asian.
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..Philip Seymour Hoffman for the librarian maybe ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
On topic of Tiffany: I didn't really like the first two books but I really enjoyed the last one. Seems almost as if she became an intersting character with puberty. Or maybe it's just that the Tiffany books are intended as "children"-books and I'm just not that interested in a 10 year old traveling to the land of the fairies to rescue her brother.
Automatically Appended Next Post: @reds8n: looks good, but does he have the right accent? ^^
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Albatross wrote:I can see Mackenzie Crook (pictured below) as Rincewind, and I would love Stephen Fry to do the voice of Death.
Aye that was the only real stumbling block for me with Sky's 'Colour of Magic' although a good watch, I could never quite get over the stumbling block that was David Jason as Rincewind.
Someone like Mackenzie would have been much better.
Regarding the rumour of Mort and Disney, I so hope that turns out to be accurate.
Disney have been wondering what to do for a while once all the great fables ran out, and novels would be a brilliant place to go.
Would love to see their take on it.
Oh and as to actor and a character, not 100% but for some reason Rhys Ifans says Moist von Lipwig to me.
"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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and Ginger Beer! 
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). The newer books obviously have the new style covers. Each have their place.
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