It makes Constable Visit-The-Heathen-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets more amusing.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2015 3:09:52 pm PDT #23627 of 28297
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-t - Oct 19, 2015 4:03:19 pm PDT #23628 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Small Gods has always seemed like a good place to start because it is so stand alone-ish.
I don't know if I fully endorse the idea of reading all the Night's Watch books, for example, rather than mixing it up and getting a more holistic view of the Discworld gestalt, come to think of it.
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2015 4:16:36 pm PDT #23629 of 28297
brillig
reading all the Night's Watch books
Are you suggesting interspersing the Discworld books in among a publishing-order of the Watch books? Which is a good idea. Because the interpersonal developments amongst the Watch have their best effect, in my mind, when seen linearly.
-t - Oct 19, 2015 6:27:24 pm PDT #23630 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not suggesting anything, but I don't think I understand your question.
Polter-Cow - Oct 19, 2015 8:30:23 pm PDT #23631 of 28297
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
She's saying that rather than read all the Watch books in order, read all the Watch books in order and include non-Watch books in publishing order where they fit.
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2015 5:40:42 am PDT #23632 of 28297
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Or non-Watch out of order as the fancy takes you. I think the Watch books are more linear than the others. Granny Weatherwax transcends linearity.
Polter-Cow - Oct 20, 2015 7:33:24 am PDT #23633 of 28297
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Welcome to Night Vale novel is out today, and it's fucking great.
Pix - Oct 20, 2015 7:47:31 pm PDT #23634 of 28297
The status is NOT quo.
You’ve all inspired me to finally read the majority of the Discworld books. I’d read a few but never followed up on the rest. I’ve decided to start with Equal Rites and am loving it so far.
-t - Oct 21, 2015 2:58:16 am PDT #23635 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay!
Atropa - Oct 21, 2015 1:12:38 pm PDT #23636 of 28297
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm biases about Discworld reading order, because the Witches books are my favorites and I want EVERYONE TO READ THEM.
Still haven't read The Shepherd's Crown. We were traveling, so no books that will make me cry on trips, and then I came home to the tie-in novelization for Crimson Peak. Which is so full of delightfully purple, overwrought prose that Anne Rice is gnashing her fangs in jealousy.