Bookish pleasures
Oct. 26th, 2005 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantThere should be a word for that nice warm feeling you get when you finish a good book. Postliterary?
Anyhow, I finished Terry Pratchett's Thud in about a day and a half. It made me laugh until the spouse glared at me and put headphones on, and then it made me cry a little bit in a restaurant, damn it, because I'm just susceptible to that sort of thing.
And now I'm wishing that everybody in the world would slash Grag Bashfulsson. With anybody. I'm not picky.
(Oh, and Pratchett wrote a little history of the game on the official website of the game of Thud, which is why I love the internet.)
Anyhow, I finished Terry Pratchett's Thud in about a day and a half. It made me laugh until the spouse glared at me and put headphones on, and then it made me cry a little bit in a restaurant, damn it, because I'm just susceptible to that sort of thing.
And now I'm wishing that everybody in the world would slash Grag Bashfulsson. With anybody. I'm not picky.
(Oh, and Pratchett wrote a little history of the game on the official website of the game of Thud, which is why I love the internet.)
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Date: 10/26/05 06:08 pm (UTC)I needed more Carrot, because I always need more carrot, but I coped.
And thanks for the link - Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl - awesome!!!!
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Date: 10/28/05 02:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/26/05 06:25 pm (UTC)I am giving Thud to my husband once he finishes his latest work crisis, and as a sign of my boundless love and devotion, I'm not even reading it first...
... oh, wait, that was in Stupid World. :)
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Date: 10/28/05 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/26/05 06:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/27/05 12:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 02:15 am (UTC)No, wait, actually I think Ursula LeGuin's Sparrowhawk was the first. Blair was just the first after (1) puberty and (2) the discovery of slash. (Which did not come as close together as I might have wished.)
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Date: 10/28/05 03:13 am (UTC)My discover of slash came approximately 25 years after puberty. I think I'm just making up for lost time, now.
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Date: 10/26/05 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 02:17 am (UTC)I started reading Pratchett expecting it to be comedy -- like, books whose whole purpose is to be funny. And so it was a really pleasant surprise to find that they were real books that happened to be written in a funny way.
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Date: 10/26/05 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 02:19 am (UTC)And I'm not sure I could bring myself to make a post listing only Grag -- and if I start listing Discworld characters I'd like to spend more time with, I'll be here all night!
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Date: 10/29/05 09:23 pm (UTC)And yes, if you want to see this person slashed you should probably add at least one more character unless you really want to tempt fate... of course, with yuletide, there are no guarantees anyway. *g*
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Date: 10/26/05 08:22 pm (UTC)But I have to say I'd enjoy it more if it had been properly proofed. This copy's full of mispellings and continuity errors. Angua is "Captain Angua" in one place, "Sergeant Angua" elsewhere; "Brakenshield" on one page is "Brakensheild" twice on the next; someone puts "on candlestick on a stool".
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Date: 10/28/05 02:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/26/05 09:44 pm (UTC)Me on a plane. For me it was just the very first time he goes to read "Where's My Cow?" I just got all teary.
THAT'S. NOT. MY. COW!!!!
Goodness, I love the Pratchett.
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Date: 10/28/05 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/26/05 10:24 pm (UTC)Haven't found a copy of Thud yet, but I'll try library on Friday. Mmmm, new Pratchett.
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Date: 10/28/05 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/27/05 01:42 am (UTC)*hugs the whole Watch crew*
The book was fantastic.
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Date: 10/28/05 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/27/05 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 02:23 am (UTC)I'd also love to see someone slash Rincewind and Twoflower.
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Date: 10/27/05 05:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 02:25 am (UTC)