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I imagine him as being a bit wirier, with a wilder moustache than that - the sort that sticks out like a brush on either side. But I do see what you mean...
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But what was his position on Wow-Wow sauce?
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He's more or less exactly as I imagined Ridcully, Brad - if he glowered a bit more and was wearing the right gear, he wouldn't be a million miles away from Paul Kidby's depiction:
That ugly bugger on the left would be great as the Librarian too.
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Yup, I've always wanted to portray either the Librarian or the Bursar, though I'm too hefty for the latter....
And Tom could glower with the best of 'em. He was a great Pratchett fan, and I hope they get Sky TV up in heaven.
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Well, I thought it was okay. There were a few quibbles of casting and the like (I didn't like Ridcully - not overbearing enough), but I thought that the main problem was that it was mainly directed rather flatly. There was little in the way of tension or dramatic drive, and at no point did you disappear into the world - you were always aware that you were watching people act (and not always amazingly well).
I also wonder how well people who were utterly unfamiliar with the world would have followed it.
Mosh, Pratchett is well worth getting in to. His earlier books are obviously the best place to start, but are rather more slight than his later works. The first two are also more satires of the Fantasy genre as a whole, with pot-shots at specific targets, so unless you're into the genre (which I'd guess you're not, as you've not read a Pratchett), then I wouldn't start there.
I'd suggest Equal Rites as not a bad place to start, although the story is a little slight and it's not the funniest of the books. Mort and Sourcery are also good places to start.
He's that rare writer that can be extremely funny and extremely profound in the same book. He's also one of those people that, when you read him, even amongst the silliness, you get the impression that he knows a lot more about a lot of things than you do.
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I'd suggest Guards! Guards! as one Pratchett entry portal, or if you prefer quarrelsome but funny witches, perhaps Witches Abroad.
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Wyrd Sisters is the first Witches book (apart from Equal Rites, which only has Granny Weatherwax and is still tending more to genre parody than his later ones.) I would start with Wyrd Sisters or Guards! Guards.
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Pratchett is the one author whose new books I will look out for. I have all of the Discworld series, in hardback only from Men at Arms onwards but I am trying to find hardback copies of the earlier ones (preferably with the Josh Kirby covers). While I enjoyed Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic since I wasn't into the fantasy genre in general the references were a bit beyond me.
The Witches and the Watch tend to feature in my favourite books in the series, but it's always great when Death drops in too. He has a cameo in pretty much all of them I think.
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I've tried to get into Pratchett numerous times but it's just not funny, to me. I'm a big Fantasy genre fan. Horses for courses, I suppose.
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quote:Originally posted by Cinnamon: Pratchett is the one author whose new books I will look out for. I have all of the Discworld series, in hardback only from Men at Arms onwards but I am trying to find hardback copies of the earlier ones (preferably with the Josh Kirby covers). While I enjoyed Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic since I wasn't into the fantasy genre in general the references were a bit beyond me.
The Witches and the Watch tend to feature in my favourite books in the series, but it's always great when Death drops in too. He has a cameo in pretty much all of them I think.
Cinnamon, I've got a large print hardback of Equal Rites with the Kirby Cover. Its yours if you want it-not one of my favourites.
Geek Alert: the one Discworld that Death does not feature in, as far as I'm aware, is The Wee Free Men.
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