The Multiverse's Octarine Tribute Thread to Pratchett

[ShinymetalASS]

....and here it is.... because I know you all love death as much as I do.

....and because....

[Aardvark]

Chelys Terryprachettus

[Movius]

Wizzard

[Arsozah]

Death... yeah, he's cool. I mean, he's COOL, but nothing compared to the Luggage. The Luggage followed Rincewind right into Death's little house and came back unscathed. The Luggage rules...

And my mind has not changed despite having read two non-Rincewind books. Esk's staff had nothing on the Luggage.

[ShinymetalASS]

Im actually a bit of a fan of Vimes and Angua. Oh, the vampire from Monstrous Regiment. Oh bugger it I like em all.

P.S. It was actually Twoflowers luggage. It just kinda adopted Rincewind.

Oh, and theres this line about thunder clouds stalking around on legs of lightning.

I just think thats kick ass imagery.

[ersatz]

damn, I've got to read some Pratchett sometime. Only played a bit of the old adventure game and read a bit of the graphic novel which I downloaded

[Arsozah]

P.S. It was actually Twoflowers luggage. It just kinda adopted Rincewind.

I know, but the storyline isn't really as much about Twoflower as Rincewind as Rincewind crops up in further books and Twoflower doesn't, and it followed Rincewind into Death's house... (albeit it was to rescue Twoflower)

I never actually said it was Rincewind's... :confused:

:p

[Kez]

What the fuck is this?

[MisterBishi]

What the fuck is this?

Stop stealing my lines you uneducated heathen.

:fag:

[ShinymetalASS]

I know, but the storyline isn't really as much about Twoflower as Rincewind as Rincewind crops up in further books and Twoflower doesn't, and it followed Rincewind into Death's house... (albeit it was to rescue Twoflower)

I never actually said it was Rincewind's... :confused:

:p

Oh I know you never said it was Rincewinds... and twoflower is only in that one where he is discworlds first tourist. Rincewind is the original hero of discworld (i just typoed discoworld hehe)....

We agree. And I also have to note that someone who posts anything asking wtf about this thread prolly should go back to one of them tech threads. You know, that doesnt have to do with paper and those weird things with no buttons... you know.. little cubes.... errr... ask Granny, she'll tell you they are good for one thing and you'll find em in her privy. :D

[Sparhawk]

IS THIS JOLLY?

I really should read some of the older ones.

[Sinwah]

Sparhawk: Hahahahaha, Hogfather owned

Anyway, Pratchett is a king among men. He created Lord Vetinari, the Disc's foremost evil genious and hater of mimes (my personal hero). Not to mention Death, the Nac Mac Feegle, the Unseen Faculty and the Watch. Ugh, pleasure overload

[SuCC]

My own opinion on the Discworld is the earlier ones were better in general, the first couple of Watch ones were good, but Vimes started to piss me off gradually. As if he was Pratchett's pet character..... Rincewind was also nerfed a little becoming 2dimensional and overly goofy and silly.

But the earlier one's were great! :) Cohen the Barbarian, Unseen University, The Librarian,.....

[ttpuk]

two flower appears in a later book called "interesting times" (i think)

wish they would make a movie of these books.

rincewind - shaggy from scooby doo
nobby nobs - pug faced guy from pulp fiction and armageddon
vetinary - patrick stuart
death - christopher lee

[Sinwah]

I could see Christopher Walken as Death, or Vetinari for that matter.

Keanu Reeves could play any of the golems, he's got the personality and facial expressions down pat.

[Manshoon]

The Luggage belongs (if it really belongs to anyone) to Rincewind. Twoflower gave it to him at the end of The Light Fantasic.

The Librarian is awesome.....Ook ook EEK!.....The Nac Mac Feegle are great. and DEATH....this guy is just the BOMB!

[Death]

DEATH....this guy is just the BOMB!

I AM? YOU ARE TOO KIND

[Something Fast]

I always imagined Gary Oldman as Lord Vetinari.

I absolutely love Terry Pratchett's novels, and Good Omens is just Godly. No pun intended...

[Foxfire]

The Luggage belongs (if it really belongs to anyone) to Rincewind. Twoflower gave it to him at the end of The Light Fantasic.


Aye there was no adoption involved, the Luggage was given.

Personal favourite characters are Victor from Moving Pictures, Conina from Sourcery, Cohen, and the Bard from the last hero.

I like Carrot and Death and all the famous ones as well, but it's the minor guys who need a little support now and then.

[Sparhawk]

My personal favourite minor character is Mr Teatime. What a nutcase.

Or the guy that runs the Assassin's Guild.

And to Death: Your style is wrong. It should be WRITTEN LIKE THIS. YOU SEE?

[Drakin]

DARK IN HERE ISNT IT.

[Foxfire]

"It wasn't that he was talking to a dog. People often talked to dogs. The same applied to the cat. And maybe even the rabbit. It was the conversation with the mouse and the duck that might be considered odd."


I love moving pictures.

It and "Interesting Times" would have to be my two favourites... And "The Last Hero" of course, just because it was full of sweet sweet awesome cliche`s or however you spell that thing properly.

[Glompbot]

Personally I'm a big fan of the vimes books... My favourites being Fifth Elephant and The Night Watch

(i refuse to read the books until they're out in softcover, so i've not read any of the newer ones)

I'm also becoming a big fan of the books with Susan in them...

[Sinwah]

My favourite is the latest book, Going Postal. It's got some of the best jokes I've seen in a Discworld book and the main characters name is Moist von Lipwig :D

[Foxfire]

Haven't read going postal, but The Night Watch was good, I'm also the only person I know who liked The Thief of Time, but that's mainly because I enjoy things that much about with time.

Plus Deja Fu just cracked me up.

[ShinymetalASS]

Haven't read going postal, but The Night Watch was good, I'm also the only person I know who liked The Thief of Time, but that's mainly because I enjoy things that much about with time.

Plus Deja Fu just cracked me up.

Hey hey there Foxy, did you read what my favourites were??

Thief of Time and Pyramids... i love a pisstake on physics.

[Foxfire]

I haven't read pyramids... I started to read it back in high school, but for some reason never finished it and haven't seen it since.

And no I hadn't read what your favourites were else I'd have said "Shiny is the only other person I know that liked thief of time" *grins*

[Glompbot]

I loved theif of time!

[Hippy Vindalou]

I also think Two Flower was in Interesting Times as well.

No movie could do those books justice I reckon, they have too much detail built up over the series that you just couldnt fit into a flick. I found the cartoons really dissapointing, the backgrounds were too bare and dull, the stories seemed slow and plodding. Bits in the book that had hilarious quick snappy dialogue became slow and tedious in the cartoons 'cause it seemd like they were trying to hard to get the farney arksents roight.
But thats just one hippy's opinion.
The books rock.


although if the people who did the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings movies got together with a fuckload of money to spend they could probably pull a good version off.

[Foxfire]

I'll second that one Hippy... Harry Potter is still the only movie(s) to date that I like better than the books... and no it has nothing to do with Hermione being a super cute bundle of yummalicious joy (you'd have to know me to understand I'm joking about this, it's a long standing joke between my friends and I since I saw the first harry potter movie way back when).

And I know Two Flowers daughter is in Interesting Times, I'm just not too sure about Two Flower himself...

[Hippy Vindalou]

Actually you could be right about his daughter .....buggerit I'm too lazy to go look it up :D

[Foxfire]

I loved theif of time!

It seems I need to find new friends :D

...


And I'm not to lazy to go look... I just don't have the book... why doncha send that little ole book on down my way and I'll have a gander for ya there Hippy? Save you all that trouble and whatnot. :p

[Glompbot]

Twoflower AND his daughter were in interesting times.

[Hippy Vindalou]

why doncha send that little ole book on down my way and I'll have a gander for ya there Hippy? Save you all that trouble and whatnot. :p

You know I'd love to man but that would require even more effort.
See I knew if I held out long enough some one else would do it. Good on ya Sapia ;)
Any book with Cohen in it has gotta be good. An unbeatable geriatric barbarian cum thief with diamond dentures = :cool:

[Glompbot]

It would be interesting to note here, that I have a piece of paper i got out of a fortune cookie stuck to my monitor at work....
it says

There is a Chinese curse which says, 'May you live in interesting times'.

[ShinymetalASS]

It would be interesting to note here, that I have a piece of paper i got out of a fortune cookie stuck to my monitor at work....
it says

There is a Chinese curse which says, 'May you live in interesting times'.

You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Sapia again.

Thats Gold that is!

[Foxfire]

Mm that's what I like so much about Terry Pratchett. He has an awful lot of real world mythology hidden away in the discworld.

The whole turtle and elephants was actually an anciet view of what our world was like. This led to the question of what exactly held the turtle up and the answer was that there was a stack of turtles each one balanced on the other.

Or something like that, it was back in highschool when my comp teacher was telling us about it.

[ShinymetalASS]

I've just scored a copy of Pyramids off Manshoon! Fucken yay! I know what I'm posting in the "what are you reading now" thread

[Foxfire]

damn you....

*puts on a dress and heads over to the 'shoons joint to beg for books*

[ShinymetalASS]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll....... I now own me a copy of interesting times. Which is good and all..... but the best part?

ITS A SIGNED COPY!!@$#@!$#@!@#$^%^%^%#

Bought it from a book store in Southport. Which had heaps and heaps of Pratchett. And then I pick up this hardcover and I'm like, 35 bucks?? WTF?? But then I notice it says signed next to the price. So I start looking and looking and then, on the title page, is a signature. And it's Pratchetts!!!!

To re-iterate:

I OWN A SIGNED COPY OF INTERESTING TIMES~!!@~@$#!@!%#@$#@!

[Serpent_Girl]

"I HEARTILY APPROVE OF THIS THREAD"


oh yeah, and GO THE LUGGAGE! So cute ^-^ I so want a signed copy now too. Most of my books are in e-reader format, I read them on my ppc. But when I can afford the real books I get them. :) I also love the games! :D

[Arsozah]

I have seen the copy of Interesting Times and it is very impressive. Shiny thought it was important you could also see it, so here it is

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/ryana00/InterestingTimes.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/ryana00/PrachettSig.jpg

:)

[Manshoon]

damn you....

*puts on a dress and heads over to the 'shoons joint to beg for books*

You got NO chance...I dont think a dress would really suit you

[Sparhawk]

What was a library doing with a signed book??

Perhaps my next collecting spree will be Pratchett. I've already done gamebooks, Star Wars novels, Infinity Engine computer games and Star Wars comics, I need a new one.

*loads up EBay*

[ttpuk]

signed interesting times? nice one
my wife an i have 10 signed hardbacks all of which required long waits in bookshop queues. well worth it thought.
we collect the paul kidby discworld pictures too and have all but the rincewind pencil print. (were big fans if you hadden guessed).
http://www.paulkidby.co.uk/

[ShinymetalASS]

I have no idea what the Gold Coast City Library was doing with a signed copy, nor why it would cancel a signed copy and why a signed cancelled copy would turn up in a book shop. But do I care? Not a freakin bit!! And why? Cause I bought said signed copy for a steal* and will never part with it.... NEVER!@#@#$@#$%

*not 'steal' in the context Peter uses it in the family guy. No *wink wink*. It was $35

[Glompbot]

I have

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0552141593.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

except mine is shinier, and the cover is high gloss embossed, and has the title done in shiny gold stuff

[ttpuk]

http://collectables.listings.ebay.co.uk/Science-Fiction-Fantasy_Discworld_W0QQsacatZ69761QQsocmdZListingIt emList

check this lot out.

[Arsozah]

Have I mentioned just how much I love the Luggage?

I have just started reading Sourcery after a brief non-Pratchett interlude. I can't believe that I have missed out on so many Pratchett reading years by only starting the books last month. Ah me...

But, during the interlude I read a book that wasn't satisfying writing. It became a struggle to get through it and I ended up plodding through the last couple of chapters - my eyes would try and help and skip a few paragraphs and then my brain would notice something wasn't making sense and try and reread it. Ugh. In comparison, Pratchett's writing is so smooth - there was no boredom or eye rolling there.

Excellent.

[Glompbot]

I picked up interesting times the other day, planning to re-read it.

I bookmarked it.... put it down
and came back to it yesterday, to discover i was already HALF way through the book.

:D

[Manshoon]

Im onto The Last Continent now.....Ive read them all like 2 or 3 times now but I cant stop re-reading them!

[Arsozah]

I just finished Sourcery. Now, I am a bit under the weather and as such a little emotional at the moment, but I have a confession to make:

I cried at what the Luggage went through in this book. Poor Luggage... come to me, I'll own you. I have a closet homicidal maniac that would love the company of a homicidal maniac longing for a closet...

[Manshoon]

*looks at Arsozah and backs away slowly*......closet homocidal maniac eh......erm....Okaaaaay.....ummm.

I understand the luggage went thru a lot but DAMN the luggage is a BASTARD if I ever saw one. The luggage seems to thrive on the chase of its owner and kicking the ass of everything in its path....damn homocidal sapient pearwood.

[Arsozah]

I understand the luggage went thru a lot but DAMN the luggage is a BASTARD if I ever saw one. The luggage seems to thrive on the chase of its owner and kicking the ass of everything in its path....damn homocidal sapient pearwood.

So what's the problem??

;)

[Manshoon]

So what's the problem??

;)

No problem at all........Ill be good....I promise!!

:p

[Arsozah]

I've just finished Witches Abroad - hmmm. Any Pratchett is good, but I really like the books dealing with the wizards (and by acquaintance, the Luggage). The witches just don't do it for me. I did enjoy this one better than Equal Rights though - don't know what it was about that one that I didn't like.

Next up is Pyramids!

PS: The cameos of Death in Witches were brilliant :)

[Funk Puppet]

Current personal favourite is Monstrous regiment followed by we free men, Night watch, fifth elephant, Going postal... ah fuck it... Just imagine them in random order and that's my selection.

Pratchett got me through some hard shit in my life. Mighty author I salute thee.

[Arsozah]

Mighty author I salute thee.

We are not worthy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/ryana00/notworthy.gif

But we try to be.

[Manshoon]

Ive nearly finished The Last Continent.....and I must say trying to imagine the Luggage in drag is just weird!....on to Carpe Jugulum next!!

[Arsozah]

The Luggage in drag? wtf?

:confused:

[Manshoon]

You have never read the Last Continent have you :)

You may borrow it from me when I have finished reading it!

[Glompbot]

Eeeep! i wanna go buy books!

[dwarfthrower]

Mmmm... I read all his stuff ages ago... must dig them up again.

[Arsozah]

You know I haven't - I only started reading them a little while ago, I'm up to Pyramids and I'm reading them in order.

[ttpuk]

new pratchet book out in october

http://www.paulkidby.com/progress/index.html

[Arsozah]

The Death of Rats is cool.

Not as cool as the Luggage, but cool nonetheless.

That is all. :)

[Manshoon]

Death of Rats is as cool as Death himself

SQUEAK!