Quote from Reaper Man: "No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away" singularly appropriate I thought. Love his books - one of the few writers that could make me laugh out loud RIP
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“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death.
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Originally posted by cojak View PostI found this - a smashing way to see his Discworld books.
Where is Raising Steam? I couldn't see it there.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Snuff follows Thud
Raising Steam follows Making MoneyDown with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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I find it odd a few are classed as "young adult" because I always thought that the main discworld books were aimed at that demographic (15-25) and the younger ones were childrens' books.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI find it odd a few are classed as "young adult" because I always thought that the main discworld books were aimed at that demographic (15-25) and the younger ones were childrens' books.Comment
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I think you will find that by "young adult" they mean early teens onwards, basically aimed at kids.
Quite a lot of his books deal with adult matters and make use of grown up humour that might well be a challenge to kids.
If it turns out that he took an assisted route to the end then I'm certainly not going to condemn his choice, I do believe that people should have the option to decide their own fate and if they've no quality of life or prospect of it then they should have options available. Not that it makes his loss less sad to me as I've had so much enjoyment reading his books.Comment
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostThe early ones, at least, were quite rude.Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostI think you will find that by "young adult" they mean early teens onwards, basically aimed at kids.
Quite a lot of his books deal with adult matters and make use of grown up humour that might well be a challenge to kids.
Perhaps not for younger kids but I thought 13-18 was the core Discworld reading demographic! But then I was a pretty avid reader so maybe not typical.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThey never struck me that way - I was in my early/mid teens as many of the classic discworld books came out, and remember eagerly waiting the school library to get each new book (which luckily happened very often).
Perhaps not for younger kids but I thought 13-18 was the core Discworld reading demographic! But then I was a pretty avid reader so maybe not typical.
The prologue of the first book sets the tone :
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There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics.
An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis."Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThey never struck me that way - I was in my early/mid teens as many of the classic discworld books came out, and remember eagerly waiting the school library to get each new book (which luckily happened very often).
Perhaps not for younger kids but I thought 13-18 was the core Discworld reading demographic! But then I was a pretty avid reader so maybe not typical.
That being said I read many books aimed clearly at adults (no not the mucky type ones, ok well a few of those too) as a child and teenager, so it's hardly a fixed thing, but there are certainly subtleties that need the adult mind to spot and his writing had no shortage of those which was part of his appeal and his talent.Comment
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostIf it turns out that he took an assisted route to the end then I'm certainly not going to condemn his choice, I do believe that people should have the option to decide their own fate and if they've no quality of life or prospect of it then they should have options available. Not that it makes his loss less sad to me as I've had so much enjoyment reading his books.Comment
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