Unseen Academicals Review
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For what it's worth and it's not worth much...
I felt I was waving a fond faretell to the DW. As I read through it appeared that certain characters were appearing and disappearing in sentences with very little 'fleshing out'. I felt I was reading a requiem. Having read it three times now, as I originally thought I had misunderstood the sensation I was getting, I still arrived at the same conclusion.
I am now re-reading the entire series and wait to see what happens when I reach UA.
I felt I was waving a fond faretell to the DW. As I read through it appeared that certain characters were appearing and disappearing in sentences with very little 'fleshing out'. I felt I was reading a requiem. Having read it three times now, as I originally thought I had misunderstood the sensation I was getting, I still arrived at the same conclusion.
I am now re-reading the entire series and wait to see what happens when I reach UA.
meerkat said:
For what it's worth and it's not worth much...
I felt I was waving a fond faretell to the DW. As I read through it appeared that certain characters were appearing and disappearing in sentences with very little 'fleshing out'. I felt I was reading a requiem. Having read it three times now, as I originally thought I had misunderstood the sensation I was getting, I still arrived at the same conclusion.
I am now re-reading the entire series and wait to see what happens when I reach UA.
I felt I was waving a fond faretell to the DW. As I read through it appeared that certain characters were appearing and disappearing in sentences with very little 'fleshing out'. I felt I was reading a requiem. Having read it three times now, as I originally thought I had misunderstood the sensation I was getting, I still arrived at the same conclusion.
I am now re-reading the entire series and wait to see what happens when I reach UA.
But I disagree with you.
When I read Making Money I thought the same. It wasn't original, it wasn't laugh out loud funny. It didn't seem to have any deep meaning. To me it seemed like a book that had been produced by a conveyor belt author who had to meet a deadline to satisfy his publisher.
But, I thought Nation was brilliant. And I thought Unseen Academicals was very good, definitely in the top half of all TP books.
You can't have a book set in AM without having Vimes, William De Worde, Angua etc. Their characters didn't need to be fleshed out coz we already know their characters. Nutt was good, Glenda was good, Vetinari was brilliant, and Dr Hix has to be one of my favourite characters ever.
I recommend not passing judgement until you read "Midnight".
I didn't like Monstrous Regiment. Maybe UA is just your Monstrous Regiment.
Hi Poohcarrot.
You could be right. I do not like Monstrous Regiment either, I think it is a bit anaemic.
But don't get me wrong, I liked UA very much and felt a lot for Glenda, and strangely and I can't explain why, Pepe. I also have a thing for Vetinari and don't get me started on why I like Sam Vimes or both of us could end up needing therapy.
It's just the sensation I got when reading UA. I shall plow on and see what happens this time round.
BAN ALL CRAB BUCKETS!
You could be right. I do not like Monstrous Regiment either, I think it is a bit anaemic.
But don't get me wrong, I liked UA very much and felt a lot for Glenda, and strangely and I can't explain why, Pepe. I also have a thing for Vetinari and don't get me started on why I like Sam Vimes or both of us could end up needing therapy.
It's just the sensation I got when reading UA. I shall plow on and see what happens this time round.
BAN ALL CRAB BUCKETS!
Two things in my re-reading that I found rather odd to be there:
U A Page 57
Now when I read the word cute, I think of cats, spaniel dogs, bunny rabbits and guinea pigs ... I do not think of Politicians ... could that have been acute?
U A page 72
What does an Omnian prophet got to do with football? Especially one that someone like Trev has probably never heard of? Should that have been brother? 'Oh brother ...' sort of thing?
Just some observations that I thought were odd word choices that's all!
U A Page 57
Now when I read the word cute, I think of cats, spaniel dogs, bunny rabbits and guinea pigs ... I do not think of Politicians ... could that have been acute?
U A page 72
What does an Omnian prophet got to do with football? Especially one that someone like Trev has probably never heard of? Should that have been brother? 'Oh brother ...' sort of thing?
Just some observations that I thought were odd word choices that's all!
Tonyblack said:
Lady Vetinari said:
Well, for once I am going to mention it ...
Does anyone else think that the Micromail is just a parody of Mithril in Lord of the Rings?
Does anyone else think that the Micromail is just a parody of Mithril in Lord of the Rings?
Tolkien was an author not an ism. His writings are fictional and not about civilised society, rather on how they became civilised in a parellel timeline vaguely based on north-western European myth.
