Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett) - Page 18

I tried that quiz, and it gave me a complete different random questionairre. >_< And has anyone read 'Jingo'? I just started it, and damn thats one attention catching start. Funny as hell.

Jingo is surprisingly relevant once again. I think it was actually written at the time of the first gulf war, though I may be wrong on this - don't quote me on that.
Anyway, having just bought it myself (again, my old one was falling apart) I quite like Vimes's outlook on war as just a very, very big crime. Colon and Nobby (or Beti?) surpass all expectations of being very good at being bad at being spies.
leonard da Quirm is an excellent character being sketchily based on da Vinchi, but with a slightly skewed genius for designing weapons of mass destruction. Also, there seems to be a kind of Bloody Stupid Johnson-ness about him. As in, what he designs and build doesn't do what it says on the tin. I quite like the external combustion engine.

The football match I think is a reference to the matches played between British and German soldiers during WW1.
Although it does say a lot about how inter-country rivalry, in Europe at least, is played out on the footy pitch.

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Jingo is one of the best books and the comedy used for Nobby (with his Betty sotryline) is one of the best I'd seen from a book for some time .

Yeah man, it's probably the funniest, from the first page to the last, the humour just doesn't die out. I wonder how Pratchett does that, got be some natural talent he's got.

But for kiddies.
I've been thinking some about Thud (or whatever it's called). A female vampire in the watch. And there's one thing I know about female vampires - they're seductive (at least if the movies and stuff I've seen are anything to go by, who know what Pratchett's going to do with it). So maybe she will tmept Carrot away from Angua? Or maybe even Vimes, or Nobby? *shudders*

Notice how he's has started to put references to books as yet unpublished in the ones that are published. In Going Postal, Vetinari is playing 'Thud' against the low king of the dwarves by clacks.
Where's that line in your sig from, Simmex?

New it was familair.
I would got to Amazon to check out the book, but I'd rather buy it eventually and find out myself.
Couldn't be long til it's out in hardback.