I hope hope hope for another Death/Susan book!! As someone mentioned, we haven't had one in ages and I'm really starting to miss those characters. I also feel like Terry could still do so much with those characters (can't say the same about the Watch/AM).
Or something completely refreshing, with an all new set of characters, like Scouting for trolls. Who knows?
I'm not so sure what to make of Long Earth/Raising Taxes yet. We'll see.
And on a final note, I don't believe the Discworld will have a such a thing as a final book. I guess Terry will write a few more and at a certain point he'll (have to) stop. It's better that way. But for now he's not showing any signs of losing steam.
Or something completely refreshing, with an all new set of characters, like Scouting for trolls. Who knows?
I'm not so sure what to make of Long Earth/Raising Taxes yet. We'll see.
And on a final note, I don't believe the Discworld will have a such a thing as a final book. I guess Terry will write a few more and at a certain point he'll (have to) stop. It's better that way. But for now he's not showing any signs of losing steam.
Regarding Pratchett on not considering Moist for future Patrician: I'm actually disappointed (and hoping this was just Terry being coy). Because in MM Moist looks at Vetinari as a role model in matters of human manipulation. Also Moist is developing as a popular civil servant, but the challenge of doing something unpopular as getting the AM citizenry to actually do their part in supporting the public good by paying their taxes may be what he needs to progress from one who is in it for the challenge and adventure to one who is in it for the good of the city. And that transformation is a necessity for anyone with whom Vetinari would want to entrust his dear city.
SUFFER IN YOUR JOCKS EVERYONE!!!!!!
I can't find the book the library says I need to return before they will give me access to Snuff (its here somewhere! Bloody kids!).... so I STILL have Snuff to look forward to.
My 23 yr old is annoyed and being nasty to me... says she LOVED Snuff and keeps teasing me and and and wants me to read it so she can blab blab blab with me about it!
I can't find the book the library says I need to return before they will give me access to Snuff (its here somewhere! Bloody kids!).... so I STILL have Snuff to look forward to.
My 23 yr old is annoyed and being nasty to me... says she LOVED Snuff and keeps teasing me and and and wants me to read it so she can blab blab blab with me about it!
Lately I've been reading the Discworld novels as something I know that I will enjoy no matter who the book features. I've loved the YA Discworld books and the characters that come out of them.
I really hope we have a few more books, a grand finale as you will. It would be nice to see some of the characters from older books coming into a united storyline that connects with new characters. I almost want it to be something big and crazy where characters I know and love die, characters we haven't seen in awhile come back, and the entire fate of the discworld is at stake. I just feel like the latest books have lacked those dire consequences.
That said, I know that no matter what comes out, I will preorder and read over the course of a day or two. As much as I haven't loved the more recent books as much as some of the older ones, they're still better than a lot of the books out there.
I really hope we have a few more books, a grand finale as you will. It would be nice to see some of the characters from older books coming into a united storyline that connects with new characters. I almost want it to be something big and crazy where characters I know and love die, characters we haven't seen in awhile come back, and the entire fate of the discworld is at stake. I just feel like the latest books have lacked those dire consequences.
That said, I know that no matter what comes out, I will preorder and read over the course of a day or two. As much as I haven't loved the more recent books as much as some of the older ones, they're still better than a lot of the books out there.
I'm still happy to read a good yarn about the Watch and AM, but I do miss Death (not something I'm likely to say in any other context!) and Susan.
I feel like the wizards have gone as far as they can go, but I also thought that about the witches until they developed further (as Ash pointed out) in the Tiffany series. So I'd be happy to be wrong about the wizards too.
I'm with those above me, I'll put aside everything else for a new Pratchett
I feel like the wizards have gone as far as they can go, but I also thought that about the witches until they developed further (as Ash pointed out) in the Tiffany series. So I'd be happy to be wrong about the wizards too.
I'm with those above me, I'll put aside everything else for a new Pratchett
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That is the thing:
These inconsistencies were handwaved in Thief of Time with the mention that time broke before and that putting it ogether again didn't work so well.
Now, in ToT, time breaks again and gets, apparently, put back together the way it should have always been.
Not to menion those time thingies except for one exploded, if I remember correctly.
That means, the time we have now in the stories is the time as it always should have been.
Look at the stories since nightwatch. Show me one inconsistency within those.
These inconsistencies were handwaved in Thief of Time with the mention that time broke before and that putting it ogether again didn't work so well.
Now, in ToT, time breaks again and gets, apparently, put back together the way it should have always been.
Not to menion those time thingies except for one exploded, if I remember correctly.
That means, the time we have now in the stories is the time as it always should have been.
Look at the stories since nightwatch. Show me one inconsistency within those.
