I'd be happy to try taking War and Peace on again if people are interested in forming some sort of support group for it.

I'm reading the Louise & Alymer Maude translation [link] - free for Amazon Kindle, so the price was right. The links to the French translations don't work in my version, but my French is enough to understand what's being said. More or less.

(Which reminds me, juliana, I need to give you the ARC! Tor sent me a copy, so you can just have the ARC to read and treasure.)

Sweet!

My mother gave me The Story of Edward Sawtelle, which I should read, but I'm not really in the mood for Hamlet retold. Richard III retold, sure.

Just saw on his official FB page that Terry Pratchett has died. I feel like this day calls for a long wallow in a big pile of Discworld rather than, say, any kind of useful work.

Did he take his own way out, or was it something else?

Vale, Sir Terry.

Moist Von Lipwick would be the perfect successor to Vetinari.

Oh, man. I've only read Good Omens, and always meant to jump into the Discworld books.

STEPH.

You have so much wonderfulness ahead of you. My first was Lords and Ladies, but there are plenty of good entry points.

I'm still numb over here, trying to get to work. I just got a four-month rejection and it barely did anything to me since I'm already down in a hole.

The official announcement tweet is pretty good.

I remember reading the first of the Discworld books when it first came out, but never went any further with them. I do, however, have a stack of them at home that were freecycled in my building (we have a shelf and people leave stuff there for anyone who wants it).

Well, that sucks. RIP Sir Terry.

The first couple of Discworld books aren't as good as what follows. The nice thing about the series is that there are so many threads that you can follow.

Dammit. I'm heartbroken. Such a wonderful, smart, human writer.