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Box134

Pompous twit!

Still getting your names from fiction written for thirteen and
fourteen-year-olds? I'd say you're at the right intellectual level there.
 
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Ed Bennett

Box134 said:
Still getting your names from fiction written for thirteen and
fourteen-year-olds? I'd say you're at the right intellectual level
there.

Are you trying to tell me that Pratchett is aimed at 13- and 14-year-olds?
You've got to be kidding. I started reading it at that age, and didn't
understand the majority of the humour.
 
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Ed Bennett

Margolotta said:
Depends what we're talking about.

I, of course, was talking about the adult-aimed Discworld books, rather than
Terry Pratchett's children's work.

By the way, I went to listen to Terry Pratchett speak at the Oxford Union in
November - a very interesting hour. Then queued for an hour to get a copy
of Thud! signed.
I recall watching a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture (this was
before they were dumbed down and stuck on C5) given by Stewart and on
the desk he had a Clarecraft (sadly now defunct) pewter model of the
Discworld (an exact replica, it is said, of the one Death has in his
study) and he mentioned DW rather a lot (well the topic of the
lectures was, as I recall, astro-mathematics and he kept using it as
an example of a well formed alternative universe.

Damn, that must have been before my time. I can only vaguely remember a
couple of non-dumbed-down ones, and those were way back when.
 
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Box134

Yes, I was being too categorical. Of the 64 titles listed in our library
system, the classifications range from juvenile to adult science fiction. I
guess it's like The Simpsons, juvenile format with adult humour.
 
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Box134

Margolotta said:
There have been several Discworld children's books, but I have read them
because they're just too damned good.

And to your level.
Wee Free Men
A Hat Full Of Sky (both of these featuring Tiffany Aching - aged 9 and
then
11 - and the Nac Mac Feegles) I believe he's working on a third (where
Tiffany will probably be 13)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Is That My Cow? (a book taken from the novel THUD! It's what Sam Vimes
reads
to Young Sam every night)

Is That My Cow? Must get that one.
But, yes, I guess an Oxbridge-educated, well-respected maths lecturer
reads
kiddies' books if that's what you want to think, Box134.

So, even Oxbridge-educated, well-respected folks go slumming once in a
while.
Don't diss something you've never even read.

But then the ignorant (and stupid) always deride what they don't
understand.

The voice of experience.
I suggest you (Box134) read one - though it will probably all go right
over
your head.

No thanks. My reading list is quite long enough without any unnecessary
detours.
 
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Ed Bennett

Box134 said:
Yes, I was being too categorical. Of the 64 titles listed in our
library system, the classifications range from juvenile to adult
science fiction. I guess it's like The Simpsons, juvenile format with
adult humour.

"You guess"?

If you want to pass comment on someone's literature, you could at least have
the good manners to read it first.
 
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Ed Bennett

Box134 said:
Oh, cutting Sir. I shall read "Is That My Cow?" as penance. It sounds
riveting.

The name of the book is actually "Where's my Cow?"

I suggest reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld; if you're looking
for adult fiction, I'd suggest starting elsewhere than Where's my Cow?. A
lot of the Discworld novels reference each other; it's probably best if you
start with one of the books with fewer references to earlier novels in the
series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_My_Cow? has information on Where's My
Cow?, as well as having a categorised list of all the Discworld novels and
other books.

(Yeah, I'm OT)
 
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Mary Sauer

Did you ever play the video games of DiscWorld, Ed. Really lots of fun. DiscWorld
Noir was the last one we bought, don't know if there were any after that.
 
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Ed Bennett

Mary Sauer said:
Did you ever play the video games of DiscWorld, Ed. Really lots of
fun. DiscWorld Noir was the last one we bought, don't know if there
were any after that.

I played the original Discworld game for DOS - I got to the final scene, but
a bug in the game prevented me from completing it.
 
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Mary Sauer

That was the one with the pewter collectors item. I still have my item, not sure who
it is though. My game didn't have a bug. Rincewind was a sorry lot.
 
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Ed Bennett

Mary Sauer said:
That was the one with the pewter collectors item. I still have my
item, not sure who it is though. My game didn't have a bug. Rincewind
was a sorry lot.

Mine didn't have a pewter collector's item (but I have a big pile - our
local market has a model stall that has almost all the Clarecraft figures).
 
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Box134

Damn you Margolotta! She was the one who said it was "Is That My Cow?" (a
book taken from the novel THUD! It's what Sam Vimes reads to Young Sam every
night)

Just goes to show you can't trust anything she says. Or, maybe he had more
than one cow?
 
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Ed Bennett

Box134 said:
Damn you Margolotta! She was the one who said it was "Is That My
Cow?" (a book taken from the novel THUD! It's what Sam Vimes reads to
Young Sam every night)

According to some Googling, "Is that my cow?" is a line repeated a lot in
the book. Easily confused by the easily confusable.
 

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