One gets the feeling, with #Terry, that the real sticking point was that "the company would not promise not to do it again", but if they'd apologised and made that promise. Well, Terry would have probably quietly admired their chutzpah. The adverts would have had to stop, been apologised for, but he'd have probably let them keep the licence to print the books. Or maybe not. You never could tell with Terry.
The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases.
The Assassins' Guild, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.
‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’
‘That’s true.’
‘It didn’t rain so much in the summer time.’
‘The sunsets were redder.’
‘There were more old people. The world was full of them,’ said the wizard.
‘Yes, I know. And now it’s full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you’d expect it to be the other way round.' — Equal Rites
Announcing the theme for Terry Pratchett Day 2024: START IN THE WRONG PLACE.
"Don't start in the right place!" they often say of #TerryPratchett's work. So, let's truly embrace the joy and chaos to be found in the many routes through #Discworld and beyond.
Every time I reread Going Postal I like it even better. This is indeed Pratchett at his finest.
As a conman is running for US president again, and the true faces of billionaires are exposed, Going Postal also becomes more and more relevant.
This time I listened to the new audio edition, narrated by Richard Coyle and it was very good.
I must admit that I had trouble with my previous attempts to listen to the new audio editions. I may be getting old and cranky, almost 50. But there was always at least one character I found it hard to listen to. Be it Nanny Ogg in the witches novels, or Vorbis in Small Gods. Nanny should always sound like she is smiling, and planning something, Vorbis has a calculating quiet evil soul, he will condemn you to death without showing emotion. He would not sound like he is planning something nefarious.
I think the actors hired to read the new editions are too good. Most of the Discworld novels have characters that are suited to more exaggerated acting. I think Going Postal is different because it is so well written, it works with more subtle acting and Coyle understands the essence of all the main characters.
I'm also having trouble with the footnote sound effects in the new audio editions. They break the flow; I end up forgetting what they refer too. It's kinda like the effect you get when entering a room and finding that you've forgotten why you went there.
Yet again the footnote sounds didn't bother me as much this time. Perhaps I'm getting used to them.
Luckily, I still own the older versions and can listen to the edition I prefer.
He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?"
I've finished: Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett.
It's been a while since I last read Only You Can Save Mankind. I didn't remember the Golf War references being so prominent and now that I know Pratchett was a fan of the Wing Commander games I got more of the game play references. I'm now surprised he didn't reference the triumphal victory music you'd get after achieving a kill.
In 1991, as a 16 year old Israeli, under SCUD missile attack, carrying a gas mask with me everywhere, watching the amazing high tech air-power at work on TV, I had no anti war sentiments. I just saw a dangerous dictator getting his due.
@fkamiah17
“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
-- #TerryPratchett '#SmallGods'
40 years ago today, it was revealed that the world is flat, and carried through space on the backs of four giant elephants named Tubul, Jerakeen, Berilia and Great T'Phon, who in turn stand on the back of Great A'Tuin, the star turtle.
Happy Birthday Discworld, and happy publication day to The Colour of Magic
Aujourd'hui je pense à Maitre Mo, à ses oreilles et à ses coupette, a l'URSSAF et a ses chantiers, à la douleur et l'humanité de ses textes.
Aujourd'hui je pense à Xanax, ses talons aiguilles et ses colliers et laisse, ses coups de gueule et de fatigue, ses vannes désabusées et la précision de ses mots #speakhisname#speakhername
Aujourd'hui je pense à Denderos, le druide tauren que nous avons a peine eu le temps d'adorer avant qu'il disparaisse.
Aujourd'hui je pense à l'EGM, Guillaume, maître de jeu et auteur amateur pour le jeu de rôles Agone, un foutu moteur et une sacrée motivation. #speakhisname
Today is the Glorious 25th of May. Some Discworld fans wear the lilac (or fill your screens with posts about it) and remember a wonderful book, a brilliant creator, and often our lost ones #GNU
Here’s to Terry, to the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road, and those who did the job they didn’t have to do. #GNUTerryPratchett :pratchett: #Discworld#SpeakHisName#WearTheLilac #AllTheLittleAngels#HowDoTheyRiseUp
Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! #AndAHardBoiledEgg