This woman hates the Watch

[high eight]

Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series

I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series

Probably one of those pagan types who had been recommended the witch books by her local shaman and expected the watch to be more of the same.....

Oh dear lord don't get me started on those people. If you don't have any gods then it's not a religion "the feminine aspect" or whatever doesn't count, the only thing they worship is their own inflated sense of self importance.

It's all that 'ancient religion' guff that annoys me. Current paganism dates back about 75 years - its younger than my Dad!

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series

I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series

Probably one of those pagan types who had been recommended the witch books by her local shaman and expected the watch to be more of the same.....

Oh dear lord don't get me started on those people. If you don't have any gods then it's not a religion "the feminine aspect" or whatever doesn't count, the only thing they worship is their own inflated sense of self importance.

Hey! There's no need to be offensive, pagan covers a huge range of beliefs but not having any gods would not fit the majority of that group. I think you'd find the majority of pagans no more in love with their own importance than any other group.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Re:

Do we want to know what she would have called Reaper Man, Small Gods, Interesting Times etc?

Reaper Man - Good
Small Gods - fair to middling
Interesting Times - not very interesting

 

[Maura:-D]

Re:

^No. What triggered the important stuff was Polly going to find her brother. Vimes's 'reputation' was just tactics. The book was about perceived indentity & subsequent prejudices. Cause and effect, that kind of thing. Monstrous Regiment is a firm favourite of mine.

Re - The woman in the shop. My step-mother refers Discworld as 'those childrens books you read'. I mean, really!

Those children's books? REALLY!!! Well, I love them all, my dad's similarlly addicted, mum doesn't really like that kinda book... Although someone once said, "Oh, the geeky fantasy type books." I mean, SHOCK HORROR SWOON!

 

[One Man Bucket]

She probably doesn't like Vimes, who can blame her, and the latest Watch are pretty much Vimes and supporting cast rather than proper Watch books. Alternatively she doesn't like police procedurals

 

[meerkat]

Vimes is lovely! Hands off Vimes!

 

[KEN DOG]

i think vimes is one of the best thought out characters. the relationship between him and lord Lord Vetinari is great.
he has always thought of himself as a man of the street. haveing to fight for everything. but now finds himself one of the most powerfull people in the city. it is his unease with this i love about him.

as for the watch well i love all of them. even Mr A.E pessimel.

but each to there own. that is the great thing about diskworld. it is a world.

as for the women mentiond in the first post. thank God she didnt read wee free men first..........


“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp"

 

[raptornx01]

Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series

I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series

Probably one of those pagan types who had been recommended the witch books by her local shaman and expected the watch to be more of the same.....

Oh dear lord don't get me started on those people. If you don't have any gods then it's not a religion "the feminine aspect" or whatever doesn't count, the only thing they worship is their own inflated sense of self importance.

But, but, the witch books basically make a habit of making fun of those people. :confusion-confused:

 

[Anonymous]

Poe's Law.
Frankly every good writer could go and write a book filled to the brim with things that should make it obvious that a plot, character, etc is not to be taken serious/is mocking something (Bad writers do that on purpose to, but because they think they write something originally and grand). There still would be people to declare said plot/character/etc the best he ever wrote and that they can really feel with the character because it is just like them, or that the plot is straight out of their life etc.