Status Update.

[DaveC]

Just finished The Carpet People. Great book.

Starting Only You Can Save Mankind tomorrow. Just the Johnny books and Nation to go then I'm done.

I still have to buy Nation, it feels like I've been subcontiously putting it off...

 

[Selkie]

Nation is great. I was a bit reluctant cos it wasn't DW and I didn't think I'd really like it very much, but I wasn't disappointed. It really is beautifully written.

 

[Tonyblack]

Nation is great. I was a bit reluctant cos it wasn't DW and I didn't think I'd really like it very much, but I wasn't disappointed. It really is beautifully written.

I reread it recently and really loved it.

 

[pip]

Loved nation as well. Great story written so well . Nice place to finish til snuff.

 

[DaveC]

I am now on Johnny and the Dead and I've just, finally, ordered Nation from eBay ready for a couple of weeks time when I finish the trilogy.



Then I may actually take a Pratchett free month before Snuff comes out, unless decide to buy Unadulterated Cat, which is unlikely, I have read a bit of it, though.

 

[raisindot]

Just finished (well, listening) to Nation.

I don't know, but I wasn't particularly enthralled with it. Maybe because it wasn't strictly a DW book (although I loved Good Omens). Maybe because it seemed to me a bit derivative of The Life of Pi, Robinson Crusoe, the biblical book of Job and other post apocalyptic fiction. Maybe because Mau seemed to be an Earth-bound narrative descendant of Tiffany Aching, Daphne a combination of Wm. De Worde and Sacaricia(sp.) and all of the "villains" a variation of Carcer. Maybe I would have liked it more if I didn't know Pterry had written it. Maybe not. It isn't a bad book by any means, and is certainly a good young adult book. I guess for me at least, it's not up to Pterry's usual high literary standards.

 

[DaveC]

Thanks for the thoughts. I think mainly I've been put off buying it until I really had to was because of what you say, it looks a little derivative. Will read with and open mind and report back in a few weeks.

 

[Tonyblack]

Take no notice of Jeff. I think it's one of Terry's best books. Make up your own mind, Dave.

 

[Char]

Am reading through the Watch series, just finished Night Watch (loved it!), and so about to start Thud! All nice timing for Snuff really.

 

[meerkat]

Nightwatch os fabulous! Glad you enjoyed it. Thud is excellent too!

 

[raisindot]

Take no notice of Jeff. I think it's one of Terry's best books. Make up your own mind, Dave.

Ahhh, always thought there was a little pooh in all of us.

 

[poohcarrot]

But some of us are full of more pooh than others.

 

[DaveC]

I am now on Johnny and the Dead and I've just, finally, ordered Nation from eBay ready for a couple of weeks time when I finish the trilogy.



Then I may actually take a Pratchett free month before Snuff comes out, unless decide to buy Unadulterated Cat, which is unlikely, I have read a bit of it, though.

I'm still on Johnny and the Dead (cried at work during a bit yesterday , thank goodness I was working solo pretty much as everyone busy with an audit...)

Nation arrived! 8)

 

[pip]

Showing your emotional side Dave

 

[poohcarrot]

You'll blub at the end of Nation.
Mind you, just because you are a man who cries doesn't make you a big girlie.

 

[pip]

No . everything else makes you a big girly

 

[Tonyblack]

I blub all the time - especially over movies.

 

[DaveC]

Being surrounded at work by 12 films all playing at the same time can be a bit de-sensitizing so it takes something special to make the ole' eyes water...

 

[Willem]

I blub all the time - especially over movies.

Amen to that! Although only in the cinema (where it's dark and nobody sees my manly tears).

Return of the King, Deathly Hallows 2, Wall*E, Toy Story 3... I'm just a big old softie really.

 

[Char]

Finished Thud! earlier. I enjoyed it, but preferred Night Watch really. Moving onto Unseen Academicals next.