BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 10 May 16 - 01:08 PM

Wee Mad Arthur also manages to combine the "Craw step" (some sort of teleportation) with piloting a captured bird to travel long distances in another of the series.

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 May 16 - 07:43 PM

BBC wrestler (!! I didn't see THAT pun coming!!),
I think the book with the craw step is "Snuff" in which Sam Vimes and Lady (Duchess?) Sybil come to the rescue of the endangered goblins. Wee Mad Arthur has to go to great lengths to tell Vimes that goblin magic has been treacherously misused on Sergeant Colon, of all people. Tobacco is used to smuggle the drugs that are fatally addictive to trolls. That is a virtuoso undertaking, that plot.

Just got my first look, though, at the Hogfather book. I don't know if that's a good book to begin Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld with; I like it the better for having got acquainted with its characters in previous books.

I was weeping with laughter over that hilarious moment when Death's adoptive grand-daughter Susan is confronted with a terribly anxious "Death-of-Rats" telling her that her grandfather Death needs attention, because he is trying to substitute for the Hogfather at Hogwatch. And of course D-o-R is desperately trying to communicate all of this in rat-speak, or should that be, rat-squeak. At this point the references are layers deep:
Santa Clause/Hogfather with the jovial laugh Ho! Ho! Ho!
Death with his otherworldly earth-quaking "HO. HO. HO."

...and the poor D-o-R imitating Death's imitation Hogfather:
"...squeak eek squeak squeak eek eek "HEEK! HEEK! HEEK!"

Wonder if I'll ever get to see the animated version; the book is brilliant enough. Thanks for listening.

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 May 16 - 04:41 PM

Thompson, did I read you right? On your side of the pond, "Fanny" is the c-word?

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 May 16 - 07:50 PM

...and his name was Pratchett, not Prattchet....

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I didn't change the spelling in the thread title, so people who can't spell can still find Terry Pratchett threads.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 May 16 - 08:41 PM

Collins Dictionary - British English - fanny it's the same in Australian English!

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 May 16 - 05:49 PM

well, I tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: Brian May
Date: 27 May 16 - 02:53 PM

Well I'll start by spelling my hero's name correctly:

Terry Pratchett - I've enjoyed every single book I've read of his. Favourite character being Granny Weatherwax I'm afraid.

The 'Long' series are a bit strange.

The Tiffany Aching series is my favourite group of books.

Always puts a smile on my face - they're permanently on my Kindle.

I miss a world without him creating new masterpieces though . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 16 - 03:51 PM

I looked at the Long stuff myself. Well, those are a joint effort, so there is another author in there. It is indeed weird. Bit of a martyrdom complex at work with the characters.

Pardon the redundancy, but Pratchett's daughter Rhianna got her father's blessing to take the first of the Tiffany Aching books and adapt it.

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: michaelr
Date: 28 May 16 - 02:21 PM

I've read the "Long" books. Interesting concept, tedious execution. Nothing in there of the celebrated Pratchett wit.

Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
From: Brian May
Date: 28 May 16 - 06:54 PM

Yeah, the 'Long' series were . . . but as you point out it was a collaboration and I wondered how much influence TP had in the writing of them.

So 'nothing in there of the celebrated Pratchett wit' - agreed.

However there are over 40 books with plenty of it in there.

Take care all, enjoy them.