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The Rookie of the Galactic Football League series by Scott Sigler is one of my recommendations. He has two spin offs novellas too, one about fighting on the back of dinosaurs as an arena game that I've read and is ok, and one about MMA that I haven't read.
Can niggas who read The Book Of The New Sun throw Lexicon Urthus & GURPS New Sun in PDF/whatever form my way? Please, I am interested in the setting, I do not want to read about the tragic asshole.
The audiobooks are best when you can view it as Death telling bedtime stories to his granddaughter about the lives of interesting people on the discworld
Maybe it's just because I read them young enough, seeing as dad gave me them when I was a boy, or you fall into one camp or the other like with mustard, but I think Hitchhiker's Guide is hilarious and just don't care about Discworld. They're pleasant reads, but according to my notebook I read Guards! Guards! a few years ago and couldn't tell you anything about it.
Hello, I am here to join the city watch and I have memorized all of the laws.
*Slimes out three thugs being mean to a woman and dogwalks the leader of the Thieves Guild*
Not gonna lie, Carrot is a goon he don't give a SHIT about anything.
I have yet to join this delightful book club but felt the desire with nothing else on my current reading plate (and while suffering a bout of creative block) and I am highly delighted with the voted choice. I just finished the book, and I'll drop my thoughts below the spoiler.
I am going to chew my way through the rest of Discworld because of this book. I've never read any Pratchett before, but his prose are a gust of fresh air compared to much of my current reading rotation. The way he describes things in such a ludicrous way is delightful and where I would usually take issue with it in a much more grounded series, I can tell that Discworld is not that. This setting evokes the kind of whimsy and magic I think of when I harken back to early 2000's Magic the Gathering. I was able to determine a few of the twists pretty early on, but that made it all the better when my assumptions were proven true. I was FULLY blindsided by High Grand Master's reveal, but I may have missed something as I listened to the book while working. The dragon being a WOMAN was great, providing a wonderful parallel of Her and Earol to Vimes and Lady Ramkin. The setting was cynically believable, and the guards requests at the end of the book made me bust out laughing. 'We've saved the city, they were offering 50k for the dragon's death, but we're worried they won't pay us an extra $5 a month, buy us a new kettle, or possibly spring for a DART BOARD.' Most believable part of the book.
Vimes was a joy to read. Honestly, all of them were. Every perspective gave its own important input and they all wove together in a way that made sense and played well off of each other. Tropes were used unabashedly, and some were turned on their heads. Nothing ground breaking, but that may not be something that needs doing in this genre.
I did also expect based on what had been said in the thread that there was going to be some woke slop in the book, and there was a little when it came to dwarven sexes, but compared to current year shit I was surprised at how little it mattered and that it was basically window dressing. I did enjoy the magical asides, even if there were a few of them that I did not NEED thank you mister Pratchett. Its no giant five book spanning epic, but it doesn't want to be. I felt like I could have been a fifth, silent guard joining the boys on their adventure. This is what the horny dnd theater kids that keep popping up in my shorts recommendations on youtube WISH they were making. The political commentary was enough to be thought provoking without being ham-fisted.
TL;DR: Book Good, not my favorite, but well written in a distinct style. 8/10, cozy rollercoaster ride I would ride again.
I am going to chew my way through the rest of Discworld because of this book. I've never read any Pratchett before, but his prose are a gust of fresh air compared to much of my current reading rotation.
The way I put it is that he’s a unique flavor not for everyone, but if you love it you can’t get enough.
Personally, I absolutely love how he writes.
As for wokeness, really just consider the time he was writing in things were not like today and “liberals” were not as absolutely fucking nuts. Even the dwarves felt sensible as they’re a hyper-autistic race just different enough from man that the gender thing felt alright for their culture, and his jabs at capitalism and monarchy and in sewer ants and all that didn’t take away from anything for me. But whatever, I’m a simp.
Maybe it's just because I read them young enough, seeing as dad gave me them when I was a boy, or you fall into one camp or the other like with mustard, but I think Hitchhiker's Guide is hilarious and just don't care about Discworld.
I know in my (pre-Internet) group of friends, if you couldn't quote entire passages word for word from Hitchhiker's and Monty Python, you were automatically suspect.
Well, now technically Final Space counts with the finale in a big comic book that does recap everything from the show first. Sure it won't hit newcomers the same, but humor is kept right and story finally gets wrapped up nicely.
The way I put it is that he’s a unique flavor not for everyone, but if you love it you can’t get enough.
Personally, I absolutely love how he writes.
As for wokeness, really just consider the time he was writing in things were not like today and “liberals” were not as absolutely fucking nuts. Even the dwarves felt sensible as they’re a hyper-autistic race just different enough from man that the gender thing felt alright for their culture, and his jabs at capitalism and monarchy and in sewer ants and all that didn’t take away from anything for me. But whatever, I’m a simp.
I listened to the audiobook of Guards Guards. I had read the first few Discworld books, ages ago, but this is my first time with this one. Amusingly, there was a fuckup in the audiobook that made it to the final recording. I attached a clip of it here.
It's easy to like Terry Pratchett's prose. Every line has a clever turn of phrase, a mockery of a fiction trope, or a character acting in an amusing fashion. That's every single line; it's a non-stop hurricane of comedy and turned even my jaded ass's lips upward a few times, like the description of a sweater that was so stiff it needed hinges. But Pratchett's not just a pun machine/pervert like his contemporary Piers Anthony; he gets you to give a shit about his characters by making them the victims of bureaucratic bullshit, social misunderstandings, and just plain bad luck. There are some Bre-Eesh'isms that went over my head, but I got most of the jokes.
Pratchett deserves his reputation as an excellent comedian and worldbuilder. Yeah there's a bit of poz (some nonsense about all fantasy races being equal and borders being bad, which is an obvious metaphor for why England needs to open its borders to infinite rapefugees) but it's so mild compared to Current Year fiction that it's barely noticeable.
I'm gonna show my hipsterdom and name a fantasy parody comedy series that predates Discworld (but not Xanth or Hitchhiker's Guide), but only because I read the first 5-6 books as a kid in the 90s and became obsessed with it for awhile, and I finally went and read the entire series a couple years ago and had a blast. Myth Adventures by Robert Asprin still holds up, though the nerd world has forgotten it. Maybe some Kiwis will like it.
July should be "America fuck yeah" / "humanity fuck yeah". Space colonization, wars against aliens that humanity wins on its own, hell isekai fantasy colonization will do if you can find some where the protagonist is not a soylennial loser.
