Any Questions?

[Tonyblack]

The Clarecraft reference is DW18.

The 18th Book in the series is, apparently, Maskerade, which probably means nothing!

No - it means it was the eighteenth DW item they produced.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Ahh.

Mind, it did give me an excuse to peruse the webby world for Maskerade:

Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.

 

[llanelwy]

I tried finding the reference over the weekend with no luck. Guess it will remain a mystery.

 

[Tonyblack]

The only thing that shows up when you Google "Maleficos Inheritance Accelerator" is references to the Clarecraft figure. This makes me more convinced that it's not actually mentioned in any of the books. But I could be wrong. Sorry we couldn't be more helpful.

 

[llanelwy]

Its ok. still a cool item either way. Will see what the tent card says when the one I won on ebay arrives. It will take pride of place next to my luggage figure.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Like the other two potion bottles (Hilda Goatfinder's Diabolica for Men and Granny Weatherwax's Invigoratore and Passion Philtre) this is a Clarecraft specific item and doesn't reference any of the books other than it could easily be believed that it would exist on Discworld

 

[Dotsie]

Surely the invigoratore is in the books though?

 

[Dotsie]

A quick google tells me it's in Mort - 'Granny Weatherwax's Ramrub Invigoratore and Passion's Philtre, Onne Spoonful Onlie before bed and that Smalle'.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Thanks Dotsie, I was just going by the info in the Clarecraft collectors guide

 

[turtlerider]

I'm not sure if this is relevant but I was wondering if there was a parody to one of the Discworld books. I mean the parodt to Lord of the Rings is Bored of the Rings (I just read it )...

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Good isn't it. there are others The Sellamillion (Simarillion) and The Soddit (Hobbit) by A.R.R.R. Roberts, but none that I know about Discworld ones.

 

[Ghost]

the Barry Trotter books are ace

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

There are also Star Wars, The Matrix and Davinci code ones.

 

[Tonyblack]

I think it would be difficult to parody a DW book as they tend to be parodies in themselves.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

There is that in itself Tony, I never thought of that going back to the Colour of Magic with it parodically piss take of the fantasy genre.

 

[AgProv]

There are a few pages in one of Tom Holt's books which explicitly parody Discworld, (viewing it through T0om Holt's universe) but this is more an author homage, I think. Wish I could remember which one!

 

[turtlerider]

Thanks!

Also I just finished reading Mort when i realized that there weren't any chapters only a few stars (***) every now and then. Why?

 

[Tonyblack]

Terry generally doesn't write in chapters at all. There are chapters in Colour of Magic and in his Tiffany books, but that's about it for the Discworld books. I don't think the books suffer at all because of this.

Tom Paulin the critic on Newsnight Review once said of Terry's books:

. . . a complete amateur - doesn't even write in chapters - hasn't a clue.

This is a review you'll actually find printed inside one of Terry's books.

 

[Square12]

Because pTerry is actually an evil genius who has discovered that chapters give you an excuse to stop reading for the night to get some sleep!

 

[Tonyblack]

That is soooo true! The times I've thought - I'll just read a bit more until I get to a good place to stop . . .