08-08-2002 01:50									#31
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Wow, I'm impressed, even after dalgetti's feeble attempt, someone managed to answer the question and save the thread for a few more minutes.

:clap: :clap: hmmm, that's not a sanctioned smile.

	08-08-2002 01:50									#32
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quote: Originally posted by VetLegion whoever didnt read it (yes you paiktis) what are you waiting for! one of the best books I EVER read.

noted

	08-08-2002 01:51									#33
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and thanks to our generous new mod for letting me recommend this book, I really wanted to.

	08-08-2002 01:53									#34
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I don't get it. That means, well at least to me, that discovering the truth is usually pleasant. Or did he have some strange disease in his repro-organs producing agony whenever he touched them?

And was Reich some sort of philosopher to be spewing out such, hmmm, interesting quotes?

	08-08-2002 01:53									#35
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The unwritten motto of the Quisition (also used by Vetinari): When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.

	08-08-2002 01:54									#36
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Hell, recommed the whole DiscWorld series. They're all brilliant

	08-08-2002 01:55									#37
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rah accepts blatant suckup

But I didn't save the thread, the educated posters at Apolyton did. Let's keep it that way

	08-08-2002 01:57									#38
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quote: Wow, I'm impressed, even after dalgetti's feeble attempt, someone managed to answer the question and save the thread for a few more minutes.

hey!

I don't care , really.

	08-08-2002 01:57									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Andrew1999 The unwritten motto of the Quisition (also used by Vetinari): When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.

Ooh, translated from the "old language" of the DiscWorld, which happens to have the same words, yet subtley different meanings to Latin.

	08-08-2002 01:59									#40
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well it still fits because if someone has grasped your testicles he usually has your undivided attention. what?

	08-08-2002 01:59									#41
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quote: Imran and IW demonstrate their knowledge in good literature

Eh... I wouldn't totally deem it 'good literature'. An amusing yarn, yes, but I've read better .

	08-08-2002 02:01									#42
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so what's this book about?

DiscWorld series and Pretchell... smells AD&D fiction to me

	08-08-2002 02:04									#43
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Reich was fascinating. I have an orgone accumulator in my bedroom.

	08-08-2002 02:05									#44
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quote: The world spun under Om as the eagle sought for shell­cracking height, and his mind was besieged by the tortoise's existential dread of being off the ground. And Brutha's thoughts, bright and clear this close to death . . . I'm on my back and getting hotter and I'm going to die . . . Careful, careful. Concentrate, concentrate. It'll let go any second . . . Om stuck out his long scrawny neck, stared at the body just above him, picked what he hoped was about the right spot, plunged his beak through the brown feathers between the talons, and gripped. The eagle blinked. No tortoise had ever done that to an eagle, anywhere else in history. Om's thoughts arrived in the little silvery world of its mind: "We don't want to hurt one another, now do we?" The eagle blinked again. Eagles have never evolved much imagination or forethought, beyond that necessary to know that a turtle smashes when you drop it on the rocks. But it was forming a mental picture of what happened when you let go of a heavy tortoise that was still intimately gripping an essential bit of you. Its eyes watered.

this is the incriminated passage. in my opinion, on of the best single moments in world literature

	08-08-2002 02:07									#45
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Whut? You're talking about Discworld and Pratchett? Let's see, I've read the Fifth Elephant and Thief of Time. They are, hmmm, absurd and funny.

	08-08-2002 02:07									#46
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Not bad, Not bad.

	08-08-2002 02:11									#47
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Hehehehe

Love 'small gods'. Re-read it every two years or so.

Paikitis, I'm afraid I still don't know what that quote is supposed to mean... The most obvious interpretation would be that the truth is often hairy, but I don't know if translates into german, so that one is out... Discovering the truth can be a pleasurable experience, unless you clench to hard?

	08-08-2002 02:11									#48
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 so what's this book about? DiscWorld series and Pretchell... smells AD&D fiction to me

Satire of AD&D fiction actually. Like Hitchhiker's Guide, only fantasy instead of sci-fi. I think it's great.

	08-08-2002 02:13									#49
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How are his latest ones stacking up, btw? I got kind of saturated after 'interesting times', although I had a short comeback with 'the truth' (is that the right title? The one about the printing press) on an airport... Found it quite funny, although still not up there with his best work.

	08-08-2002 02:14									#50
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the truth is you have yet to discover your testicles

	08-08-2002 02:15									#51
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The truth is great, there's often two of them, you shouldn't go shouting it around in public - people don't want to know, and above all don't put too much weight on it.

	08-08-2002 02:15									#52
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quote: Satire of AD&D fiction actually. Like Hitchhiker's Guide, only fantasy instead of sci-fi. I think it's great.

In a nutshell yes. There's been some kind of competition and argument between fans of Pratchett and Adams, but I see no reason since both are great. The factor of laughing out loud during reading is high.

	08-08-2002 02:18									#53
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I dunno, I found Pratchett to get old quick. I loved the first couple books of his I read, but then, it seemed like I was kinda reading the same thing, and I got bored of it.

	08-08-2002 02:22									#54
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The first two are not his best at all. I depends how you read them. The humour is quite similar in most of the books, but the characters all look at life differently: don't read all the witches books, then all the Guards books, it doesn't work.

	08-08-2002 02:24									#55
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I liked the first two... Small Gods was boring in comparision.

	08-08-2002 02:27									#56
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They all depend on how knowledgable you are on the subject they deal with. The more you know, the mroe jokse you get, the better it is.
How good is your ancient Greek cultural/religious/philosophical knowledge?

	08-08-2002 02:31									#57
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Imran, I dont know what is obligatory in US schools.

but when you read madame Bovary, Ana Karenina, In search of lost time (Proust?), crime and punishment, and other nonsense you ll learn to appreciate a good book.

decameron and candide are the only decent 'classics'

btw pratchett does vary in quality, but Small Gods is his best, in my opinion.

	08-08-2002 02:34									#58
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Crime and Punishment was the most boring book I have every attempted to read.

	08-08-2002 02:35									#59
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CyberGnu: "truth is always hairy" now there is a quality understanding of philosophy, as well as anatomy

	08-08-2002 02:37									#60
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IW, you are right on spot with the references in pratchet books the more you recognize, the funnier it is.

about crime and punishment, its a thriller compared to 'in search of lost time'. I dont dare to describe what it is about, I may fall asleep in the process