THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eric P on April 07, 2008, 02:23:13 PM
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Going Postal.
Meanwhile, Sky One is to turn Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal into a television drama, following the ratings success it enjoyed with The Hogfather, starring David Jason.
The show achieved the highest ever audience for a multi-channel commission, with 2.86 million viewers.
Going Postal, to be shown over two 120-minute specials in 2009, will be the third of Pratchett’s Discworld series to be turned into a drama by Sky, following a dramatisation of Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic, which is to be screened over Easter weekend.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/20180/sky-one-commits-major-funding-to-uk-hd-dramas
wooo
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wife really liked this book, although she's gagging for wyrd sisters and/or guards! guards!
given that wyrd sisters is a massive riff on macbeth, i'm honestly surprised they haven't done it, like, first
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i would love guards! guards! as the night watch is probably my favorite "series" within the books
i have both BBC full cast adaptations for Wyrd Sisters and G!G! if you'd like for me to upload them for you
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yes yes plz
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i think i have them all
G!G!, Mort and Wyrd Sisters.
They, um, vary in quality, to be polite but they're not bad. I think the best of them is probably G!G!
edit: left out small gods. THAT'S the best of them, i think
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night watch is hit/miss with me. guards! guards! was awesome, and carpe jugulum was good, but some of the middle ones like feet of clay are snoooooore recycle
pratchett's consistency is shockingly good overall, though -- his only low points were equal rites and pyramids, the former because it's unfunny and poorly paced, and the latter because it recycles every stupid joke from color of magic through sourcery and none of the good ones. also i did not like mort from the same period, although most folks consider me insane for saying so
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small gods is easily his best book
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yeah, Small Gods is stupendous.
I've read like ... 5 or 6 Discworld novels? I should read some more.
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yeah, Small Gods is stupendous.
I've read like ... 5 or 6 Discworld novels? I should read some more.
you should probably go buy Going Postal
i think it's really the best thing he's done this decade
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I've read ummm
Colouuuur of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Night Watch
I also got The Fifth Elephant but haven't read it yet.
Honestly, reading them In Order is kind of a dumb idea, the early ones were way boringer than the newer ones. I think it took a book or three for him to really get his bearings and go from "parody" to "inspired riff."
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yeah, Small Gods is stupendous.
I've read like ... 5 or 6 Discworld novels? I should read some more.
I just received 30-some Discworld audiobooks. From uh, my friend in Spain.
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i'll agree with that
but i started reading them in the early 90s shortly after the release of Good Omens. I think wyrd sisters is the first "new" book in the series that i recall buying. so i've been able to see the progression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
wow i've been reading these a long time.
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yeah, Small Gods is stupendous.
I've read like ... 5 or 6 Discworld novels? I should read some more.
I just received 30-some Discworld audiobooks. From uh, my friend in Spain.
i have the same friend
they vary WILDLY in quality
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so recommend me some books
sounds like:
Guards, Guards
Going Postal
what else
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i'm the wrong person to ask, i think because i really do love them all, even the "bad" ones.
if i must make suggestions
small gods
soul music/ moving pictures
jingo
the truth
going postal and making money (really my two favorite, i think)
mort/ reaperman
night watch
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there is a terrible lack of rincewind and granny weatherwax in your recommendations :punch
i would go with
small gods
guards! guards!
wyrd sisters
lords and ladies
interesting times
going postal
making money
night watch
the fifth elephant
eric
carpe jugulum
moving pictures
reaper man (the only death one i really liked)
i really didn't like soul music, sourcery, mort, monstrous regiment or masquerade
hated pyramids and equal rites
thought i loved the color of magic and the light fantastic but they feel almost TOO douglas adamsy -- good douglas adams, mind you, but still very derivative
although rincewind uber alles
the rest are all good fun
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well i can't really suggest rincewind w/o having someone read the full epic saga from TCoM to The Last Continent.
equal rites is horrible.
pyramids is fun, but would be covered better by small gods.
but really, read them all. they're nearly all excellent and aside from equal rites, worth your time
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ooh, forgot thief of time
:bow thief of time :bow2
it's right up patel's yellow fever alley
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ToT doesn't really hold up in my opinion.
but then I don't like the main character.
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:punch i vehemently disagree good sir :punch
but what more could i expect from some who liked pyramids :yuck
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as an opera/theatre/musical cigarillo i also really liked maskerade
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phantom of the opera was too facile a choice for satire
also fat goth protagonist with weight issues :yuck
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phantom of the opera was too facile a choice for satire
also fat goth protagonist with weight issues :yuck
i hated her in carpe jugulum
and in wyrd sisters
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wait, Thief of Time combines time travel with Asians?
ORDERING
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List Price: $7.99
Price: $7.99
I've NEVER seen a book that Amazon doesn't discount.
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wait, Thief of Time combines time travel with Asians?
ORDERING
not really
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List Price: $7.99
Price: $7.99
I've NEVER seen a book that Amazon doesn't discount.
they rarely discount mass market editions
if you want i can look for my beat up (but still reable) copy and i can just mail it to you
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I just ordered:
Thief of Time
Going Postal
Making Money
from...
uh...
THE LIBRARY
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What's with this library obsession?
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phantom of the opera was too facile a choice for satire
also fat goth protagonist with weight issues :yuck
i hated her in carpe jugulum
and in wyrd sisters
she wasn't in wyrd sisters, that was the first witches' book
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By using the library I can read books for free
I don't really understand how it works but I'm going to keep using it until they shut it down.
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phantom of the opera was too facile a choice for satire
also fat goth protagonist with weight issues :yuck
i hated her in carpe jugulum
and in wyrd sisters
she wasn't in wyrd sisters, that was the first witches' book
my mistake
lords and ladies
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she was kind of a minor character, though, blessedly
also lords and ladies has nanny ogg at her awesomest
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By using the library I can read books for free
I don't really understand how it works but I'm going to keep using it until they shut it down.
You book pirate. We'll know who to blame when the US publishing industry collapses.
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man, i am years behind in Pratchett. I read them religiously from The Color of Magic (yes, I'm so old that I bought the very first Discworld in its original paperback printing) 'til about 1996 or so, then just got burned out. Much like I did with P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster etc). It's like gorging on a box of chocolates - just got sick of them. Maybe, just maybe, I could go for one now though. What's the consensus best Discworld in the past decade then?
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small gods
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uqdcq3
mort
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gctuyz
g!g!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/617w7a
bbc radio shows
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man, i am years behind in Pratchett. I read them religiously from The Color of Magic (yes, I'm so old that I bought the very first Discworld in its original paperback printing) 'til about 1996 or so, then just got burned out. Much like I did with P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster etc). It's like gorging on a box of chocolates - just got sick of them. Maybe, just maybe, I could go for one now though. What's the consensus best Discworld in the past decade then?
i feel you on the wodehouse. though i still love it, i can't sit there and religiously read a book of it.
my favorite recent book is Going Postal followed by Making Money.