Sounds like he was a nice guy, and it's a great shame he died so young, but those novels look a right nonsensical mish mash, and I'm afraid I don't plan on reading any.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post...but those novels look a right nonsensical mish mash...
I can't find the quote, but he said something like that his novels cover serious topics such as slavery, freedom of the press, religion etc. "but you include one lousy dragon and suddenly you're a fantasy writer".
Even my wife enjoys his better books - and she can't stand fantasy novels usually. There's been a couple of decent tv-movies made.
*depending on the particular trouser leg of timeDown with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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You think Administrator will do the necessary for every CUK page served?Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostSounds like he was a nice guy, and it's a great shame he died so young, but those novels look a right nonsensical mish mash, and I'm afraid I don't plan on reading any.Comment
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I read one.
Don't think it was a discworld one though.
Someone had stolen the core of a nuclear reactor in it.Comment
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Inn-Sewer-Ants
Inn-Sewer-Ants: the translation of an Agatean concept brought to Ankh-Morpork by Twoflower.
The idea was that a financial institution, upon payment of a yearly "premium", would guarantee reimbursement of loss of property due to fire or other disaster.
This must have worked well in the Aurient, but Morporkians soon found the opportunity to reap windfall profits of thousands of percent irresistible.
The ensuing chain of events included the Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork, the formation of the Firefighters' Guild, and Charcoal Wednesday. Blown by the up-draft, the scorched parchment of the Inn-sewer-ants polly-sea floated across the Disc.
It came down on the Brown Islands where the natives laughingly worshiped it as a god. For the next seven years they received good rainfall and bumper harvests of crops.
A research team of UU wizards later dispatched to study this event finally concluded; 'it only goes to show'.Comment
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"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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