Post AltLmc4HbOFHFTERxA by Natanox@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #Aj7Zk12jHW4oLaVWDo by johnhattan@dobbs.town
2024-06-20T14:10:45Z
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@cjust OOK
(DIR) Post #Aldv9QW36gi7wmTTrU by cjust@infosec.exchange
2024-06-20T00:29:11Z
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(DIR) Post #Aldv9R4R2qDTfQYwSW by cjust@infosec.exchange
2024-06-20T16:00:53Z
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This just popped into one of my feeds - I think that it's a great story about a someone meeting the man.
(DIR) Post #AleCyZiaLqWsTcJUiu by Illuminatus@mstdn.social
2024-09-03T17:30:27Z
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@cjust I didn't have "crying at the loss of Terry Pratchett again" oin my agenda today, but seems I'll have to cram it in. :crying_cat_2:
(DIR) Post #AleCyaLa0rimQYYdVI by Archivist@social.linux.pizza
2024-09-04T03:45:19Z
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@Illuminatus @cjust Agreed, and I don't even have anything to drink to go with my tears
(DIR) Post #AltLIBkurm7qxFfLvM by Natanox@chaos.social
2024-06-20T09:26:45Z
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@michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen What did he say about human nature? Many people do have a really negative outlook in this regard, that's why I'm asking.
(DIR) Post #AltLICVM57GxHHORJA by onepict@chaos.social
2024-06-20T09:30:27Z
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@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen Pratchett was a compassionate angry man, who knew Human Nature as petty. The most loved characters were Granny Weatherwax and Captain Vimes.Both kind, but not nice. Forever striving against the worst of themselves. Through those characters some of us learned to serve the community despite what the world is like.Society is cruel. People are petty, occasionally there are cinnamon rolls of people who still have flaws and learn to do better.
(DIR) Post #AltLIDVkL9BCOmaGYa by Natanox@chaos.social
2024-06-20T09:35:34Z
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@onepict @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen I see, thanks. :) I don't agree with that assessment though. Sounds like an interesting take to write novels with though.
(DIR) Post #AltLIE8k0AN6LipPKy by onepict@chaos.social
2024-06-20T09:45:23Z
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@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen No problem, Pratchett started as a Journalist. In the 90s some folks compared him to Charles Dickens.But lots of folks looked down in his writing as it was comic fantasy.But he was way better than Authors like Craig Shaw Gardiner (another Fantasy author who I like).
(DIR) Post #AltLIEWUZrN1XNwNMG by hedders@mas.to
2024-06-20T19:15:22Z
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@onepict People looked down on Dickens too. I think Pratchett will be remembered as Dickens' equal, in time.
(DIR) Post #AltLIFx7GMGFyFP9Um by onepict@chaos.social
2024-06-20T19:20:36Z
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@hedders I think so.Pratchett's books were friends to me when I was a kid.
(DIR) Post #AltLIGms9vf4YlcUAS by hedders@mas.to
2024-06-20T19:21:57Z
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@onepict Me too. I was a pretty solitary kid, but I felt like he understood what it was like to be a bit sideways to the world. His stories got me through so many things.
(DIR) Post #AltLmSjkINTCJAYQC0 by KaraLG84@dragonscave.space
2024-09-03T09:16:17Z
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@onepict Random tangent, Roddy McDowall's reading of Craig Shaw Gardiner's novelisation of the 1989 Batman film is well worth listening to.https://youtube.com/watch?v=9517Miwosco
(DIR) Post #AltLmX9lrYfG12lGJU by shadowfals@mastodon.otherworldsink.com
2024-06-21T16:09:19Z
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@Natanox @michaelgemar the gist of the Discworld series is that humanity is ridiculous, creative, sometimes loving, and sometimes violent. @cjust @hannu_ikonen
(DIR) Post #AltLmZDOD4kOOqTBEO by herdsoft@gruene.social
2024-06-20T17:31:33Z
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@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen I love how Command Vimes always fights racism in these books. And races on the disc world are not like us humans with just different skin colors.There is so much positivity in it.
(DIR) Post #AltLmaoeG293MguRwe by Weanerdog@c.im
2024-06-21T07:07:36Z
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@Natanox Natasha have you not read Terry Pratchett? The diskworld novels are superb. The first couple can be a little trying but once you meet the watch and the witches. They are superb. Monstrous regiment is a stand alone and superb. Some of the 41 books are okay. But the ones that are great are fantastic. Pyramids is another stand alone. But you could read the Watch series by itself or the witches by themselves.Anyway. Sorry just went full fanboi there. I hope you have a fantastic day.
(DIR) Post #AltLmbDokSHIckgYAy by herdsoft@gruene.social
2024-06-20T17:43:32Z
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@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen But in one of "The Science of Discworld" books he developed a strange point of view that I later learnt is common upon a philosophy called longtermism. And I'm not sympathic with that.
(DIR) Post #AltLmbIQTJxqr2qEMK by Natanox@chaos.social
2024-06-21T08:05:23Z
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@Weanerdog Unfortunately not. I would've always loved to read more, however my ADHD and inner agitation keep stopping me from doing so. 😶 They are on my list of things to read once I've found a solution though!Wish you an amazing day as well. 🙂
(DIR) Post #AltLmbfT5eOc0VcdH6 by leroimiracle@piaille.fr
2024-08-23T21:37:19Z
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@Natanox sorry I'm just popping in, have you considered audio books ? I sometimes miss on some paragraphs but it works well for me :) (sorry for the unsollicited advice, i'm on the adhd spectrum but mine hasn't kept me from reading yet - however I do enjoy doing various tasks while listening to audio books and podcasts :) helps me focus.)
(DIR) Post #AltLmc4HbOFHFTERxA by Natanox@chaos.social
2024-08-23T22:31:57Z
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@leroimiracle Cool if it works for you. 🙂 Unfortunately I couldn't concentrate at all as I can either listen and build the imaginary world the book describes (or the logical connections if it ain't a novel) or work an whatever I want. 😅 Only music works for me that way.Listening to audio books generally sounds like an idea, however I despise big companies and their streaming services. Can't afford to buy everything physically either though so I'm just avoiding the whole concept. 😐
(DIR) Post #AltLmeNV0unyPeEpBQ by slowenough@mastodon.social
2024-06-20T03:15:23Z
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@cjust @danlyke Now I'm trying to think of other worthy series. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon comes to mind, for science fiction.
(DIR) Post #AltLmej7iW6PUiM5tA by aserraric@social.tchncs.de
2024-06-20T08:40:38Z
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@slowenough @cjust @danlyke For stories about wizards, may I suggest the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, starting with "So you want to be a wizard" IMHO vastly superior to anything Rowling has every written.
(DIR) Post #AlusGpTpgy7BDxawKG by bnthepm@die-partei.social
2024-06-20T19:16:39Z
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@cjust In „Moving Pictures“ he came up with the movie title „Valley of the Trolls“ and you gotta love him for that reference alone. „Monstrous Regiment“ is a femmnist manifesto and „Going Postal“ is another masterpiece with a brilliant title. Oh well. They‘re fantastic in every sense of that word. Now I feel like reading all of the novels again.
(DIR) Post #AlusNA2o9F0kjwyPGS by lydiaschoch@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T16:42:53Z
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@cjust @MsHearthWitch Which Discworld book do you recomend starting with?
(DIR) Post #AlusNAP8oCsLrDQF4i by MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop
2024-09-09T16:46:47Z
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@lydiaschoch @cjust So Discworld is made up of a lot of smaller series of books. Many characters and things will cross series, but each has it's own feel.Personally I'm a big fan of the Witches series. It technically starts with Equal Rites but you could also jump in with Wyrd Sisters.I also think Guards! Guards! is a solid entry point. And you can never go wrong with Mort. It all really depends on what you want to read about.
(DIR) Post #AlusNBFbf8qKTvy8qu by MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop
2024-09-09T16:47:40Z
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@lydiaschoch @cjust Ty alt4me for the alt text when I had no spoons. This is the discworld reading order chart.
(DIR) Post #Alusb17S808576kkGO by clacke@libranet.de
2024-09-12T04:46:29Z
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@cjust I've read this before, both this exact fedi comment two months ago and I believe I've seen the quoted post elsewhere too, but I still feel my eyes tear up when I see it.GNU Sir Pterry, what a fine human.
(DIR) Post #Alz9OjoJ8DaXoFMtiy by krono@toot.berlin
2024-09-12T17:59:46Z
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@CppGuy @cjust One can try that.To me it looked like a bog-standard run-of-the-mill shopify page.
(DIR) Post #Alz9OkTme0lVssm1NA by krono@toot.berlin
2024-09-12T13:53:31Z
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@cjust And you can get eBooks for 60 Prachett books for a combined price of 42$ here: https://thrillerandhorror.com/products/complete-works-of-terry-pratchett
(DIR) Post #Alz9OkdM4QQCMZFfI8 by ljrk@todon.eu
2024-09-12T19:07:10Z
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@krono @CppGuy @cjust The scanner didn't find anything specifically "wrong" with the site though, it's just a "credibility rating" by Sophos. Since Google & Co. anti-phish do not classify it as anything evil it could just be a fluke.
(DIR) Post #Alz9Ol2sXWq1djC34i by ljrk@todon.eu
2024-09-12T19:08:21Z
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@krono @cjust Hm, you know which version the epubs are/who the publisher is? They differ wildly in quality and the US version in addition had some questionable changes in e.g. Monstrous Regiment that made the Sgt. un-trans...
(DIR) Post #Alz9Oljly39JmlGIvw by clacke@libranet.de
2024-09-14T06:12:20Z
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@ljrk Oh no, that's awful.@krono @cjust
(DIR) Post #AlzTZpXIBNWfpryaLA by ljrk@todon.eu
2024-09-14T08:29:36Z
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@clacke @krono @cjust Jup, basically Jackrum was "she" again and Mal suddenly presented in "female" uniform:https://www.tumblr.com/falseficus/728290585888292864/i-read-a-physical-copy-of-monstrous-regiment-soon:(