I oft wonder about Carrot vs Granny (or Nanny to come to think about it). It'd be literally an Irresistible force vs an Immovable object. Vimes plus Carrot vs Granny (or Nanny) doesn't come out any better.🤣🤣🤣
Would Vimes and Granny ever be on opposing sides?
Even if the law put Vimes in opposition on some matter I think he'd find a way to bend it to make it more pragmaticaly 'right'.
OK, yes I might be over thinking this 😂
Granny Weatherwax is the most powerful character in the series, in my humble opinion. She reminds me of a cold but everbright fire in the soul. Next is Sam Vimes, who reminds me of the steel tempered in it.
Growing up, a big church leader once said "sin is treating people as things" as if it were his idea, then I later repeated it in school during a discussion about world religions, and my teacher thought I'd read Discworld and was impressed. One of my bigger moments of quiet embarrassment as a teen.
Mr Dr Science & I just re^nth-read Carpe Jugulum & talked about how many great bits there are besides that 1, & how they ALL fit together. For me it rates higher than Night Watch (I *know*!)
"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."
"It's a start."
Agree completely. And Sir Terry always applied that to his own characters. None of them was throwaway or just a plot device.
There’s another quote from Equal Rites: “So you were thrown away,” snapped Granny. “So what? She’s hardly more than a child, and children throw us all away sooner or later.”
Same man. Same. It's profound on any RL theological level to the point that a lot of people in seminaries need to take a few months to think things over.
My friend just sent me Equal Rites, Moving Pictures, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, and they’re about to send me The Dark Side of the Sun, Johnny and the Dead, The Last Continent, Hogfather, Interesting Times, Reaper Man, and Pyramids. I plan on starting with Equal Rites
Equal Rites is OK, it starts the Witches subseries, though that only really kicks off with Wyrd Sisters which is why WS is our (Mr Dr Science & my) usual 1st book loaner when getting people into it. Moving Pictures is another good choice, more stand-alone. https://wiki.lspace.org/Reading_Order
Seconded. The first 2-3, he hadn't really found the spirit of the thing. They're *ok* and worth going back to later, but you definitely shouldn't let them guide your opinion of the series as a whole.
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> No.
No. Full stop. Not a comma. A period. The statement ended there. "No." Mf, *you are wrong*.
This and the Patrician on how we must all be God's moral superior
Even if the law put Vimes in opposition on some matter I think he'd find a way to bend it to make it more pragmaticaly 'right'.
OK, yes I might be over thinking this 😂
Is the most real statement I’ve read this week.
but none of them, not one, has stuck with me more than “sin is when you treat people as things”
"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."
"It's a start."
"Well, this is where you find out. To the fire we come at last, Mr Oates. This is where we both find out."
There’s another quote from Equal Rites: “So you were thrown away,” snapped Granny. “So what? She’s hardly more than a child, and children throw us all away sooner or later.”
Do not start with the first books, they are NOT the best intro spot for most people.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Reading_Order
Well I can do next Tuesday