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    Going Completely Bursar

    After some discussion with philsmove.......

    Meant to be an homage and discussion of Sir Terence David John Pratchett (possibly the funniest author at the moment and indeed for the last 25+ years), and the Discworld series. I'm not sure how to start this off. So I will begin like this.....

    I have just finished "Unseen Academicals." I did enjoy it, but perhaps not his best.

    I do like the stories involving the "Watch."

    I'm not sure about Tiffany Aching. I don't find them very funny and I think Terry has got her character wrong. she is supposed to be 9 in the first book, but talks like a 40 year old

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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    Thief of Time is probably his best, although I have a soft spot for Soul Music (but most of my friends don't).

    Unseen wasn't great, but I am tempted by Sky's live-action version of Going Postal.

    Tiffany fits superbly into the mythology of witches. Talking older than she is works because of her witchcraft (and is also influenced by Susan, granddaughter of Death, another magical older-than-her-years girl). Although my exposure to 9 year old girls has been limited in the past couple of decades I do know one that in adult company does demonstrate fascinatingly adult views and mannerisms. It's only when tired or with other children that she becomes a child again.

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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    Cederic

    I also liked Thief of Time and Soul Music. And like you am looking forward to Going Postal. Do you know when it is be broadcast?

    I will of course read the next Tiffany story which I believe is out soon, but the series remains my least favourite. I hope he soon writes another Watch story. am an especially big fan of Vimes, Colon, Nobby et all.

    Has anyone listened to the audio books. I do like them and have listened to each at least 4 times. But I think that Nigel Planer reads better than Stephen Briggs IMHO.

    If I am introducing someone to Pratchett though I start them with Pyramids
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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    My personal favourite is Making Money

    I know many fans prefer Going Postal, l but I think it depends on which you read first, I read Making Money first

    "Mr. Lipwig had been in trouble, but it seemed to Igor that the trouble hit Mr. Lipwig like a big wave hitting a flotilla of ducks. Afterward, there was no wave but there was still a lot of duck."

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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove View Post
    My personal favourite is Making Money

    I know many fans prefer Going Postal, l but I think it depends on which you read first, I read Making Money first
    I wonder if those marvelous people at sky will make "Making Money" next as a follow up to "Going Postal."

    I heard it said that there is a problem with making the Watch books into film and that is Carrot. In Guards! Guards! it is inferred that he is only about 16 or 17, with bright ginger hair and built like a brick privy or Arnie.
    Who would play him. Not many people fit that description and not at that age.

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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    Quote Originally Posted by Prian View Post
    I heard it said that there is a problem with making the Watch books into film and that is Carrot. In Guards! Guards! it is inferred that he is only about 16 or 17, with bright ginger hair and built like a brick privy or Arnie.
    Who would play him. Not many people fit that description and not at that age.
    Easy enough to give someone ginger hair.

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    Re: Going Completely Bursar

    I've only read one - a Discworld one about the Corporal Carrot. I'd assumed they were really a young-blokey sort of novel but I was incredibly impressed by the sheer creativity of the man and will certainly be reading more.
    I did find the narrative slightly difficult to plough through - i was reading it in episodes at someone else's house and could never remember where I'd got up to and there didn't seem to be many markers to help me pick it up. So I guess that means not much character development but a really richly woven episodic structure. It took a long, long time to get to the crux of the plot by means of increasingly obvious clues but the real joy was the inventiveness of character and incident along the way.

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    I think that Hogfather is most like the book. I understand that if you made a film based on a book you would have a ten hour film, but I'm sure that there is a case of giving a book to a producer and saying here is the script.

    Going Postal didn't really achieve this. Hogfather did but Colour of Magic was pants. I think Nigel Planer should play Rincewind.

    I did enjoy the cartoons of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters.

    Anyone know what the next film will be? I think it might be Wee Free Men

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    In Unseen Academicals the Cabinet of Curiosity produces a bouncy inflatable football as opposed to the wooden one used till then.

    But in Jingo, Carrot carries an inflatable pigs bladder to play football with.

    Is this an incongruity?

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