(no subject)

[mipeltaja]

Oooohhhgoddd has anyone else read Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith? It was fabulous. And I have to say, right after Deathly Hallows Pratchett's writing is.. indescribable. I'm not dissing Rowling, but Pterry's writing just flows way better for me.

I want to draw fanart but as always with Discworld I feel like I can't put my mental image to paper (or canvas, as the case may be, because this one would have to be painted. With like, real paint) and that it's a waste of time to even try. orz

And I still want a copy of Where's My Cow?. I hear it has Vimes's own version of the story in it and I. WANT.

Comments

[muura.livejournal.com]

discworld is like the best ever

you've read the hitchhiker's guide I assume but it's pretty much equal in brilliance

I have a crush on rincewind ♥

[mipeltaja.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've read Hitchhiker's Guide, too and I loved it ahehhee. Though I hated how the book almost made me believe it would be possible to fly simply by forgetting to hit the ground after falling. D:

Ohh Rincewind is such a darling ♥. I can't understand how some people hate the Rincewind books. Though the Watchbooks are my favourites. Especially Vimes, who is a kickass dude with a kickass group of cops, plus a kickass wife and a kickass butler at home. (seriously Sybil just owns and Willikins once bit some dude's nose off aksjalkskdsas)

[muura.livejournal.com]

Oh my god seriously! I loved reading those parts and pretty much hated going back to reality afterwards :( Douglas Adams you cruel, cruel bastard.

I have to be honest, I haven't read much else besides the Rincewind-series and some of the Death's miscellanious adventures. But when I have more time, I'll certainly remedy this, can't have too much pratchett in your life ever.

biting noses off sounds hot.

Then again I don't mind, dorky wizards are a real weakness of mine and I'm sad they don't exist in real life. :'(

[atiko.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for the paperback version of Wintersmith, I think it's supposed to come out in a few months. I can't wait!

Terry Pratchett rules everything. *hero-worships him*

[mipeltaja.livejournal.com]

We (that is to say, my mother, sister and I, the three Pterry readers in our household) usually wait for the paperbacks, too, but my sister brought a hardback copy of Wintersmith back with her from England because she saw it in a store and couldn't just walk away. :D I love her.

[kissface.livejournal.com]

I'm not dissing Rowling, but Pterry's writing just flows way better for me.

personally, i think rowling is anything but a good writer. the first line is of the entire series is
'Mr and Mrs Dursley...proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.'
for bloody sake. harry is yet another poor little orphan, england magic, the hero wins in the end, virtue, yadayada. i know it's supposed to be a children's book, but that's not much of an... excuse, or whatever. it's not like it stopped lewis carroll, robert louis stevenson or j.m. barrie from making timeless, honest to god masterpieces, while harry potter is recognized almost solely for it's marketability records.

but that's just me.
.________.
*hides from rocks being thrown?*

[mipeltaja.livejournal.com]

No need to hide from me. To be honest, I stopped thinking Rowling was a good writer around the time I first read one of the books in English, I just don't generally discuss her talent in any way because it was never about Quality Literature or First Class Fiction for me. She's got something right to get so many people interested, I'll give her that, but really, she is not a master with the words. Nor is the HP series anywhere near the best or deepest story in the history of ever, but I don't think the series itself or Rowling is even pretending it is.

And hey, people (including me, orz) enjoy it, so I figure there's nothing really wrong on that front. The problem is mostly that a lot of people are making such a big deal about it and other people expect it to be amazing when it's really just another fantasy that, for one reason or another, made it big. Eh.

[kissface.livejournal.com]

Oh, no doubt Rowling has something going for her. She's seemed to of found this kind of simple dream that lies in the back of millions of peoples mind. Granted, Harry Potter isn't a very in depth dream. But I suppose when it comes down to it, people, sometimes, just want to read an easy-on-the-brain novel and hear the heart-warming tale of The Boy Who Lived, even if it's not the most... clever writing.

Harry Potter really does appeal to the cliche in everyone. :B It just irks me when people compare HP to the likes of Tolkein or something. People are happy that Harry Potter is being read by millions of young children, 'anything to get a kid to read these days', blahblah, i just don't want to see them reading only Harry Potter. >:

[kissface.livejournal.com]

also pratchett = yessssss♥♥