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 Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:24 am
The Discworld series is not just entertaining sword-and-sorcery humor; it's social, political, and literary satire.
Just in the first novel, The Colour of Magic, Pratchett pokes fun at insurance fraud, the classic sword-and-sorcery fiction of Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, the genre films of Ray Harryhausen, classical mythology, and a number of other classic film and literary works.
Any thoughts or comments?
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:31 am
This is a Discworld guild, everyone already knows that, that's kind of why we're here.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:48 pm
thank you for that wonderful insight...
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:54 pm
ditto the other two guys, and because of that, I've managed to get two of my english teachers and one history teacher hooked on it
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:47 am
A quote, from memory...
"I need to get a shirt that says 'I am not an Intellectual! I'm NOTI'MNOTI'MNOT!"
- Terry Pratchett, on alt.fan.pratchett
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:02 pm
I've actually considered twisting the requirements on several different research papers to make them be about pratchett, but i decided against them.
i think the crowning example of the multilevel nature of Pterry's books is night watch.
and i just love the concept of, what was it, c-mail?
weareigors@uberwald
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:03 pm
The multilayered thing is just getting better and better, isn't it?
I'm sending "Monstrous Regiment" (and "Going Postal," and "Thud" when it comes out) to my cousin in Iraq as soon as his unit stops moving and we find out where we can send things. I know he'll love it, he's been a year without a decent book collection, but I don't know what the other Marines will think of it, subject matter being what it is - my thought is that it'll get denounced by a couple of guys and devoured/sagely nodded over by the rest. Good stuff, that.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:38 pm
If I may, I'd recommend sending your cousin paperbacks, rather than hardback editions. If his experience is anything like mine when I was in Kuwait, he's going to loose track of the books. I know I gave up trying to get my Saberhagen novels back after I found out my books had gone as far away at Saudia Arabia, Qatar, and the USS Nimitz.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:18 pm
in the hopes fo keeping the guild tidy, please take these conversations to the town center chat thread. thank you. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:16 pm
Yes, just one: Where did MacCaffery come into it? I missed that entirely.
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