Author Topic: Terry Pratchett
MarcusP2 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 7:24am Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
I've never read a book with Luggage in it, so I can't comment on him/her/it.

Has anybody played the Discworld games? Discworld Noir is a great detective game, though I never saw the end since my rented copy was scratched and refused to play the ending movie.

 

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MsLanna 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 7:28am Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
I started the first pc game but I didn't get anywhere. It was so screwed that my mind couldn't keep up with the twist.
Still I found it very funny, laughed a lot and still have it.

Luggage? What a chest! tongue

 

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TC-47 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 7:59am Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
Luggage is an it, but it is a male it. It is a chest on hundreds of little legs that follows its owner everywhere. It is made from sapient pearwood; magical due to exposure to magic in the Mage wars. Luggage is invicable,immune to magic, it eats everyone apart from its owner; Rincewind/Twoflower and is generally a homocidal manaic.

It wants two things:
>An owner
>Total extinction of all other life forms

If you wanted to know; the sound it makes when it walks is: thup thup thup thup...
Also if you hadn't noticed its not very nice.

 

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DarthIshtar 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 9:46am Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
My favorites are Twoflower and the Red Army.

 

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JediNemesis 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 12:15pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
Maybe some Aussie would tell me if it's more fun if you know about Australia?

I do like The Last Continent. Maybe I'm just feeling smug for spotting the in-jokes (half-Australian) but I like it. I like the creation of the duck-billed platypus and the squadrons of balladeers.

Night Watch and Going Postal are my current favourites. IMHO, Pratchett's later ones tend to be better overall - maybe it's the leaning towards a darker kind of humour, I don't know. Sam Vimes in NW is fantastic - he could be cynical for the Discworld; Moist von Lipwig in GP deserves another book. I think he'd make a great running protagonist, much as with Rincewind, Vimes, Granny Weatherwax and Susan.

Overall favourite, though, Interesting Times. I don't know quite why, but it's great; plenty of Rincewind, plenty of the Silver Horde (great supporting characters all) and of course the Luggage finding love.

 

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Date Posted: 1/4/06 12:19pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
That's right, they had luggage babies. They disappeared the next book though sad

 

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JediNemesis 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 12:25pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
I hope they come back, or at least cameo. Can you imagine baby Luggages that haven't been housetrained? People would get hurt.

 

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Date Posted: 1/4/06 12:30pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
That would be pretty funny. Imagine Rincewind trying to deal with all of them.

 

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Date Posted: 1/4/06 12:38pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
JediNemesis posted:
Overall favourite, though, Interesting Times. I don't know quite why, but it's great; plenty of Rincewind, plenty of the Silver Horde (great supporting characters all) and of course the Luggage finding love.


I like Interesting Times, because it made Rincewinds charater much more understandable; who else could accidently find a whole army?

 

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DarthIshtar 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 1:07pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
I loved Night Watch the most, but my favorite of the older ones is Eric. A pubescent boy in charge of the world...

 

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JediNemesis 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 1:17pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
Eric is still on the list of ones I haven't read - sounds interesting though . . . thinking

who else could accidently find a whole army?

Who indeed? And where else could you find a character whose solution to being trapped in a mudhole with sizzling magic armour is to do a charade of "Oh****oh****oh****I'mgoingtodie"?

I love charades, so that was a high point. grin

 

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DarthIshtar 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 1:19pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
I love it when Rincewind just destroyed a bunch of bandits because they tried to steal his hat and his only reason why is: "It was my hat!"

 

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Jairen 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 2:58pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
LOL! But a hat is very important to a wizard, it defines them. Especially when it has "Wizzard" written on it.

ROFL!

 

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DarthIshtar 
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Date Posted: 1/4/06 4:35pm Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
In the immortal words of Ridcully: "How long can you hold your breath?"

 

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MsLanna 
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Date Posted: 1/5/06 2:26am Subject: RE: Terry Pratchett
Anybody except me bought 'Where's my cow'? blush
Got a book-voucher fo x-mas, perfect opportunity to buy a horribly expensive and rather useless book. (Which nevertheless ist great grin *millenium hand and shrimp*)

btw, does 'millenium hand' have any meaning at all (I'm no native speaker...) Just it turned up in a Jonny book, too and I startted to wonder...

 

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