I shall wear midnight
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Just this evening, I finished this latest work by Sir Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight.
As with every other of his works that I have read (all the Discworld novels thus far, and a few other works), I feel as though I have just left the company of wise and dear friends too soon, and I have a heart full of hope that I shall see some of them yet again before long.
The British Crown has done itself service to recognize with a knighthood this great and humble man, who has given us a world enough like our own to learn from and laugh at - and laugh with - and yet a world just fantastical and distant enough for us to wonder at, and for us to not take his much needed gentle chidings and kind reproach with anything but the affection and compassion with which they are intended.
He has simultaneously achieved a world more real to the soul than that of The Lord of The Rings, weaved through it stories more humorous and insightful than The Hitchhiker’s Guide series, and befriended his readers with characters richer and more endearing than the Myth and Phule books and Watership Down.
I am and will ever be very grateful to have learned of his work, and I will boldly declare that our world is better for his gifts to us.
PleasedReader
As with every other of his works that I have read (all the Discworld novels thus far, and a few other works), I feel as though I have just left the company of wise and dear friends too soon, and I have a heart full of hope that I shall see some of them yet again before long.
The British Crown has done itself service to recognize with a knighthood this great and humble man, who has given us a world enough like our own to learn from and laugh at - and laugh with - and yet a world just fantastical and distant enough for us to wonder at, and for us to not take his much needed gentle chidings and kind reproach with anything but the affection and compassion with which they are intended.
He has simultaneously achieved a world more real to the soul than that of The Lord of The Rings, weaved through it stories more humorous and insightful than The Hitchhiker’s Guide series, and befriended his readers with characters richer and more endearing than the Myth and Phule books and Watership Down.
I am and will ever be very grateful to have learned of his work, and I will boldly declare that our world is better for his gifts to us.
PleasedReader
raisindot said:
Good lord...is that the sound of a crossbow loading I hear coming from Jansway?
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Jane Austen whips both them in terms of great general characterisation and observational writing. Perhaps because she didn't have a typewriter and had to think (more) at the same time as she wrote. She didn't write anything like as much as either of them but what she did write was exquisitely observed and satirically crafted and very, very funny.
Six books before you start reading the Tiffany series is a pretty big order. I'd instead suggest if you really wanted enough backstory to get you going with the Tiffany series you could get away with just reading "Lords and Ladies" and "Carpe Jugulum" before you start "Wee Free Men," and then circle back to the other witches books when you're done with TIffany series.
Welcome Please Reader and Bookdweller.
Yes. Read these books in order.
Did Tiff ever really have a "normal" childhood... because in alot of ways she knew from a very early age she saw the world differently from other children. As you read her progress from childhood to witchhood, you get an understanding of her journey in those few short years. She is still young but an "old soul" and takes on alot of responsibility her contempories don't have to deal with, and in alot of ways I think she sometimes has a chip on her shoulder about this but is resigned to it and "does what is in front of her". (oops had to backspace there in case I mentioned a spoiler).
Raisindot said:
I agree.
Yes. Read these books in order.
Did Tiff ever really have a "normal" childhood... because in alot of ways she knew from a very early age she saw the world differently from other children. As you read her progress from childhood to witchhood, you get an understanding of her journey in those few short years. She is still young but an "old soul" and takes on alot of responsibility her contempories don't have to deal with, and in alot of ways I think she sometimes has a chip on her shoulder about this but is resigned to it and "does what is in front of her". (oops had to backspace there in case I mentioned a spoiler).
Raisindot said:
I agree.
