An Updated Discworld Companion

[Dotsie]

Isn't a prepaid credit card the same as a debit card?
*scratches head*

No, you charge the credit card up with a set amount - once that's gone, no more can be spent on it without recharging first. That way, you protect yourself from credit card fraud, and from having your bank account emptied (even by yourself ).

Even if it takes a few days to get one from the Post Office, you don't have to pay immediately when you buy from ebay, so you would still be OK.

 

[pip]

Exactly. Easier to control and not go mad on.

 

[pip]

And that bloody susan was always a problem.
Neil Gaiman wrote a warped short story about her years later.
And big sisters will always cause some forms of pain anyway.

 

[Jane]

Thanks for the help! I will go and look for cards next time I go shopping.
Hopefully I won't got on an internet buying spree. That's what happened to my sister when she turned 18 and could open up the savings account my parents set up for her when she was a kid.

And that bloody susan was always a problem.
Neil Gaiman wrote a warped short story about her years later.
And big sisters will always cause some forms of pain anyway.

My sister doesn't do lipsticks and nylons like Susan, but she's got an addiction to 4inch wedges and A-line skirts. She doesn't read much anymore, and when I try to convert her to DW, she sticks her fingers in her ears and goes "Lalala! Not listening!" or just ignores me.

 

[poohcarrot]

I shouldn't worry about trying to convert her. This way you'll always feel smugly superior to her. 8)

 

[pip]

Yep Jane,
She's missing out , not you.

 

[ghostsecurity28]

here jane this might help
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Searc ... +companion

 

[pip]

Hopefully You've managed to get the prepay card thingy by now.

 

[Tonyblack]

I have an idea!

For those of you who can't get hold of a Discworld Companion, either because you live in a country where everyone you talk to says "Terry who?" or because you are poor and your parents have fitted a childproof lock on their credit card - all you need to do is simply make your own Discworld Companion.

Simply read all 37 (or what ever it is) novels and all the short stories, including the Science of Discworld books, Nanny Ogg's Cook Book, the various Discworld Diaries and the Discworld Maps. Make sure you make copious notes about everything that happens, all characters and the places the characters visit. Don't forget to include any publications mentioned, songs, moving pictures, plays, operas and include a section on the flora and fauna to be found on the Disc. Include a section on the nature of Magic on the Disc, how the Unseen University is run, the Guilds and Associations that are in the cities and the structure of the Watch with a sub section on Law and Order.

And there you have it - your very own Discworld Companion.














Does the Terry Pratchett/Stephen Briggs version still seem so unobtainable?

 

[raisindot]

....All you need to do is simply make your own Discworld Companion.

Simply read all 37 (or what ever it is) novels and all the short stories, including the Science of Discworld books, Nanny Ogg's Cook Book, the various Discworld Diaries and the Discworld Maps. Make sure you make copious notes about everything that happens, all characters and the places the characters visit. Don't forget to include any publications mentioned, songs, moving pictures, plays, operas and include a section on the flora and fauna to be found on the Disc. Include a section on the nature of Magic on the Disc, how the Unseen University is run, the Guilds and Associations that are in the cities and the structure of the Watch with a sub section on Law and Order.

And there you have it - your very own Discworld Companion.

"And next week, on 'How To Do It,' we'll show you how to solve global warming, how to prove that string theory is true, and how to bring peace to the Middle East!"



J-I-B

 

[Tonyblack]

A solar toupee.

 

[Watchman44]

Looking forward to a new edition, but nothing would replace the front page of my current one,

 

[CJDobs]

I've got three versions of the companion. I think thats all there is?

I have the first one in hardback, then the paperback version of that one with 'revised and updated' splashed on the cover and a third soft back, taller book with the Librarian in some kind of occult book setting (funny symbols and dribbly candles galore) on the cover!

I personally think they made a mistake in editing out old material for the third 'revised' version as I would dearly love one compendium, or at least release the companions as versions covering book 1 to whatever etc.

But then, I am a bit of a geek.

I might follow and adapt Tonys tongue in cheek advice and start glueing all my copies together!

 

[The Mad Collector]

Looks like the new companion is going to be a monster but we are going to have to wait a year for it. Amazon have it listed as follows

The Complete Discworld Companion
Hardcover: 672 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (20 Oct 2011)
ISBN-10: 0575091185
ISBN-13: 978-0575091184

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

But we are all going to buy it no doubt.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Well I've got it on pre-order already

 

[deldaisy]

Hi Jane,
As a fellow Aussie I know your pain. Luckily for me I have a 23 yr old daughter who is a crazy TP fan too and she is the QUEEN of never paying full price. AND she buys me TP books for Christmas or my birthday (but I don't get it if its the ONE hardcover SHE has been looking for... oh well. If you can get TP books in second hand shops for $1 - $8 then buy them and resell them on ebay hun. I paid over $20 for my hardcover of Nightwatch in a second hand store. There is ONE bookstore here in OZ that always stocks TP... can't remember the name but will find out and let you know. Sadly hardcovers are hard to come by after the first launch. If YOU find out where to get the Companions let me know; I will ask the child if she can locate them too and will let YOU know.

I refuse to have a credit card. Lets not talk about the time I was rich, newly married and had two unlimited credit cards, and then gave the pin numbers to my husband. Lets also not dwell on the year I worked in customer relations trying to calm down major clients who had had their credit cards stripped month after month after they had handed credit card details over for automatic deductions. I now use a debit card. Its great. And I have friends who use the prepaid credit cards too and they swear by them.

Your sister is a dill. You will still be cuddling you TP books chanting "My precious! My precious!" long after her faux fur purple platforms have gone out of style.

 

[james.a.vivian]

Hi Jane, If your in Sydney try Broadway on the street side facing the Park there is a small secondhand book shop that sells new paperbacks $10-15 I haven't been there for a few years though.

 

[FirstoftheGangtoDie]

Looks like the new companion is going to be a monster but we are going to have to wait a year for it. Amazon have it listed as follows

The Complete Discworld Companion
Hardcover: 672 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (20 Oct 2011)
ISBN-10: 0575091185
ISBN-13: 978-0575091184

And helllo pre-order!