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Every time I read one of these a new line makes me audibly snort. This rounds winner:
"Psychiatry hadn't been invented on the Disc. No one had ever shoved an inkblot under Rincewind's nose to see if he had any loose toys in the attic"
Just delightful. 💿🌐
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Me but with crochet. 😂
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Oh for sure, the ban by itself is terrible. I just don't want to go back to an empty husk of what was, you know?
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At this point I'm not even sure I want it back ....
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Worth it though. #iasip
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Side note this is the equal and opposite of the Twoflowes casting in the miniseries. I love Tim Curry. The man plays villains so well. He cannot play an excel villain to save his life. He simply has too much natural flair and personality.
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And we get one of my favorite types of villains with Trymon. He's what I like to call an excel villain. Not evil for any interesting reason just a bland man who thinks that efficiency and bureaucracy are all important. Basically an excel power user.
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Characters are as always 10/10. We get so many recurring characters in this one. Including my personal favorite the librarian. I fully relate to just deciding to stay as an orangutan because being a human is too much bother. Kinda BS he still has to work though. I can only assume he wants to.
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I said in the last book that it felt less like a book and more like 3 Monty Python sketches in a trenchcoat. This feels more like those sketches merged to form an actual story. Huge improvement readability wise.
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Welcome to the addiction. Don't end up like me with a 50% review rate 🤣
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This feels like a personal attack.
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My one gripe is that the female characters are largely inconsequential. Or rather 1/4 of them are. 1/4 are a goddess and 2/4 are almost entirely naked.
I'm not really bothered in a vacuum but when your intro to Pratchett writing women is Esme Weatherwax it's a bit of a let down.
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One of my favorite things is having the reader experience explanations of what to us are normal concepts from the perspective of fantasy characters. It's a flip on the fish out of water trope of having fantasy concepts explained. I'm embarrassed how long it took me to get the economics bit.
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Weirdly for a book opening lampooning the info dump of fantasy novels it has some massive world building. The natural occurrences and thus the superstition around the number 8, the weirdly grounded way magic (usually) works, the guild system in Ankh Morpork, a zoological cosmos, etc.
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Does his unbridled optimism sometimes annoy? Yes, but thankfully the scene usually moves away from him for long enough that all is forgiven.
I usually think Discworld adaptations are terrible, but the TV movie for Color of Magic really knocked it out of the park casting Sean Astin as Twoflower.
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Twoflower: As an unashamed tourist and proud owner of a selfie stick. I love this man. I think everyone who travels has had at least one incident that they look back on and think. "I really should have been more worried about that, I could have died" Twoflower just has more of those.
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And his pessimism? Realism? Begrudging acceptance? About his situation is so funny to me. Does he assume the worst is going to happen? Yes, but in fairness around him it usually does. I think The Lady only interferes because she thinks his continued anguish is funny.
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Rincewind: my favorite little cockroach. I relate to him a little too much. I probably wouldn't constantly (try) to abandon Twoflower, but if I'm being honest I would think about it. He doesn't want to die for someone else's folly. Understandable.
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So the story is hit and miss but our characters? Fantastic. Rincewind and Twoflowes are still some of my favorites. And any book that can give literal luggage a personality is doing something right. Even minor characters are weirdly memorable despite being fantasy tropes.
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*Spoilers* from here on out I guess.
It's the first entry in the series and it shows. It feels less like a story and more like a series of Monty Python sketches in a trenchcoat. Which makes for very funny moments with stretches of dull connections. They're pretty tough to get through.
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Hated Red Rising, Sanderson does a much better job of writing women for sure. Good place to start is the Mistborn series, the women in that series are wonderful.
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This is the only reason I have not read this yet, I am a scaredy cat and cannot handle it.
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Histories on specific people and events are also good. They tend to read more like a novel because they are narrative in nature. Here are two of my favorites but anything that specifically interests you will be better.
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Some nonfiction writers are genuinely hilarious. Mary Roach has a personal style of footnotes that is very Pratchett-esque. She's informative and entertaining.