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Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:09 pm

Pratchett's sci-fi/fantasy, right? I've heard only good things about him, so I guess I'll give 'em a go.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:49 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Pratchett's sci-fi/fantasy, right? I've heard only good things about him, so I guess I'll give 'em a go.

Just fantasy. Not all books are great (Sourcery, Small Gods, Pyramids are the ones I hate), and the entire series 'suffers' greatly from Early Installment Weirdness - the world at the start of the series and the world at the end have basically nothing in common. Also by the end Pratchett went more and more into moralising and pushing a viewpoint on the reader, which may or may not ruin the fun for you. Oh, and there are 41 books in the series, so get some free time

But overall, Discworld is pretty good.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:59 pm

Longes wrote:Oh, and there are 41 books in the series, so get some free time
But overall, Discworld is pretty good.

Hey, if I can read all of Stephen King's works, then 41 books won't be a problem.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:38 pm

I'm 12...

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:18 pm

Longes wrote:(Sourcery, Small Gods, Pyramids are the ones I hate)

What the hell?

At least one of those is among his all time best, one is one of the earlier successes that launched the whole thing and the other one was an often forgotten but totally OK entry in the series well above what eventually became a pretty mediocre average.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:24 pm

Discworld can be more or less divided into 4 or 5 "series"
Death, the Wizards of the unseen University, The Guards, the Witches, industrial revolution, Tiffany Weh(young readers witch but still pretty good)
I do not like the witches, i prefer the Guard and Death, then Wizards and industrial revolution and after that the young readers and at the very end the witches.

That picture is an animated gif of the "clacks" semaphore towers. Kinda sorta something like the telegraph lines of the wild west, but based on optic signals and with a set of instructions closer to bits and bytes than morese alphabet code.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:32 pm

Leress wrote:I'm 12...

So am I!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:30 am

Shrapnel wrote:Pratchett's sci-fi/fantasy, right? I've heard only good things about him, so I guess I'll give 'em a go.

Small Gods (the nature of gods and religion, awesome), Feet of Clay (mystery novel in a fantasy setting, awesome), or Going Postal (hard to explain. Con man gets set in charge of a city's moribund postal service and uses his people skills to revive it, awesome).

Just sayin'.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:57 am

And this may be helpful to the prospective Discworld reader.

(there's a few different versions of these, but I like this one's layout most)

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:24 pm

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:47 pm

I don't get it. Where's the funny?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:50 pm

Longes wrote:I don't get it. Where's the funny?

You're not in the US, right? Over here, a lot of Republicans say that gun control laws "just don't work over here". Like there's something special about the locality that keeps gun laws from possibly being effective.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:51 pm

Longes wrote:I don't get it. Where's the funny?

I think the funny is supposed to be the crushing terror you feel when you are reminded that stupid people still exist.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:35 am

Of course, that would mean that Nurgle is a Republican.

Huh. Suddenly everything makes so much more sense.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:19 pm

Back in 2008, there was a rash of Obama vs McCain things where Obama was Tzeentch and McCain was Nurgle. It worked pretty well.

-Username17

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:36 pm

Now it works better to have the Republican side be represented by the Imperium: A bunch of clearly independent factions upholding the ever-more transparent delusion of unity using vague religious dogma, bickering with one another over tiny scraps of former glory as their prophesied doom draws ever closer, each faction leader knowing deep down that even their unified power could only slow the inevitable and choosing instead to try and live as large as possible before the end, even if that means accelerating the end.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:38 pm

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:01 pm

Chamomile wrote:Now it works better to have the Republican side be represented by the Imperium: A bunch of clearly independent factions upholding the ever-more transparent delusion of unity using vague religious dogma, bickering with one another over tiny scraps of former glory as their prophesied doom draws ever closer, each faction leader knowing deep down that even their unified power could only slow the inevitable and choosing instead to try and live as large as possible before the end, even if that means accelerating the end.

But that fails to explain why they're so opposed to public health care.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:20 pm

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:49 pm

name_here wrote:
But that fails to explain why they're so opposed to public health care.

public health care == socialism for... reasons.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:36 am

That sounds like a much stupider reason than because they worship the Plaguefather.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:52 am

the plaguefather is actually BIG on healthcare . .
you do not get sick technically. you feel great and most things work just fine. untill they fall off. and by then, you probably simply grow something that works in a similar matter in its place.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:16 am

Well, clearly the higher-ups of the Imperium want their uppity peasant classes to be completely screwed if they need healthcare of any kind in order to make it less likely that they will get ideas above their station.

I mean, that is why the Republicans hate spending money on people who don't have any, right?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 3:00 am

Nominally, Republicans hate the government spending money on people who don't have any because it encourages Big Government, which is wasteful, infringes on the rights of individual citizens, and is bad for business. They're fine with private charity, and are strong proponents of individual citizens helping others without being told to do it.

Objectively, Republicans feel that government assistance should be a morality play where people on the dole suffer and are ashamed for it; hate paying taxes; love receiving benefits from the government (even though this is hypocritical); and most of the people that are poor are non-white, single mothers, etc. that fall into the "Fuck 'em" category.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:43 am

Ancient History wrote:

I had Christmas down in Africa