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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.
Margolotta said:Depends what we're talking about.
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.
Margolotta said:There have been several Discworld children's books, but I have read them
because they're just too damned good.
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)
But, yes, I guess an Oxbridge-educated, well-respected maths lecturer
reads
kiddies' books if that's what you want to think, Box134.
Don't diss something you've never even read.
But then the ignorant (and stupid) always deride what they don't
understand.
I suggest you (Box134) read one - though it will probably all go right
over
your head.
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.
Box134 said:Oh, cutting Sir. I shall read "Is That My Cow?" as penance. It sounds
riveting.
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.
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.
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)
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