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jackI bought and read Thud (well, I read half of it in the shop...). If anyone wishes to borrow, they're very welcome.
Pratchett's recent books definitely aren't as funny to me as they used to be. This could be partly that I've read too many of them. On the other hand, while I am requiring some restraint, I couldn't avoid reading it in one day, so it's certainly still gripping.
There are other gripes. Again we see even more mysticism thrust upon drawf and troll races. They do have all their rich internal politics, etc, but somehow the diamond thing, etc, seems speciesist. The plots are a bit repetitive by this point, I wasn't really excited to know exactly what was going on. It's always difficult with Colon and Nobby to portray them as both valuble and bumbling. The cow thing was sort of cool but a bit tired.
Vimes and Vetinari are wondeful together, but surely by now they must know they're so valuble to each other they coukd dispense with the acting stupid. Who exactly are they fooling?
But there were many newer things in the books I do love. The progress. Individual characters, and A-M itself have achieved a lot you hoped they would and yet not stagnated in a "Oops, now he's president there's no plausible adventure story. Um, let's write about his son of the same name" way :) Vimes and his officers progress in good working relationships. Cheery is promoted. Detritus continues to be wise in his wonderful way. Vimes now married and has a son, who is growing up bit by bit.
Technology continues to come to A-M, giving a "living for tomorrow is worth it" feel. Cf.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
limyaael's thoughts on optimistic stories/societies. It's a change to see instead of struggling on the relics of a past society, or acquiring ever more powerful magic you can't use because of plot object, to genuinely achieve some progress that actually affects people in the future. Of course, it's very difficult to do, because you have to make two different societies internally consistant.
It was wondeful to see Vimes get on with an imp! They *should* be useful, and now finally are.
Pratchett's recent books definitely aren't as funny to me as they used to be. This could be partly that I've read too many of them. On the other hand, while I am requiring some restraint, I couldn't avoid reading it in one day, so it's certainly still gripping.
There are other gripes. Again we see even more mysticism thrust upon drawf and troll races. They do have all their rich internal politics, etc, but somehow the diamond thing, etc, seems speciesist. The plots are a bit repetitive by this point, I wasn't really excited to know exactly what was going on. It's always difficult with Colon and Nobby to portray them as both valuble and bumbling. The cow thing was sort of cool but a bit tired.
Vimes and Vetinari are wondeful together, but surely by now they must know they're so valuble to each other they coukd dispense with the acting stupid. Who exactly are they fooling?
But there were many newer things in the books I do love. The progress. Individual characters, and A-M itself have achieved a lot you hoped they would and yet not stagnated in a "Oops, now he's president there's no plausible adventure story. Um, let's write about his son of the same name" way :) Vimes and his officers progress in good working relationships. Cheery is promoted. Detritus continues to be wise in his wonderful way. Vimes now married and has a son, who is growing up bit by bit.
Technology continues to come to A-M, giving a "living for tomorrow is worth it" feel. Cf.
limyaael's thoughts on optimistic stories/societies. It's a change to see instead of struggling on the relics of a past society, or acquiring ever more powerful magic you can't use because of plot object, to genuinely achieve some progress that actually affects people in the future. Of course, it's very difficult to do, because you have to make two different societies internally consistant.It was wondeful to see Vimes get on with an imp! They *should* be useful, and now finally are.
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Date: 2005-10-09 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-10 12:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's a shame about the humour. For ages I denied it. I do wonder how a novice would react -- whcih books were best, and whcih were just read before I got too good at seeing Pratchett coming?