Books!

[Mélusine]

I re-read Patchett's Reaper Man last night and I am still emotionally compromised. Some of the Discworld novels just have that way of knocking me off my feet. Death is such a brilliant character.

*As the girl who opened the books in the library to see if there will be capital letters inside, nods*

...Still haven't read Shepherd's Crown. Part of me doesn't want to read it.

I found it in the French publisher of Pratchett's bookshop last autumn, which was a complete surprise, and grabbed it with a huge smile. I had to buy it, I was sure I had read all with Tiffany and suddenly, wow, an other one ! And a moment after, a part of my brain asked me if my English will be good enough to understand the Nac Mac Feegles. Ahem... ^^°

I would highly recommend the book I'm reading these last days, but "unfortunately" it's a first book of a new French author

[Yuuago]

I found it in the French publisher of Pratchett's bookshop last autumn, which was a complete surprise, and grabbed it with a huge smile. I had to buy it, I was sure I had read all with Tiffany and suddenly, wow, an other one ! And a moment after, a part of my brain asked me if my English will be good enough to understand the Nac Mac Feegles. Ahem... ^^°

How lucky! ...Were you able to understand them? ;p I love stuff written in dialect but mannn sometimes I have trouble.

I would highly recommend the book I'm reading these last days, but "unfortunately" it's a first book of a new French author

Ah! Well, at least you're enjoying it. (Maybe some day there will be a version I can read, if it's successful... : D )

[Mélusine]

How lucky! ...Were you able to understand them? ;p I love stuff written in dialect but mannn sometimes I have trouble.

*Coughs* Wellllllll, I hadn't read it yet, maybe for reasons similar as yours ? (Because it's the last one ?) Maybe it's time to make this try when I'll have finished my current book. It's funny, I always thought I wouldn't try to read a Pratchett in English before Because of how he plays with words, and because we have a marvelous translator. And the book I pick is one with the Nac Mac Feegle, who sometimes are hard to understand even in my language, I must be crazy ^^ For having troubles... I'll tell you after my reading

[Yuuago]

*Coughs* Wellllllll, I hadn't read it yet, maybe for reasons similar as yours ? (Because it's the last one ?) Maybe it's time to make this try when I'll have finished my current book. It's funny, I always thought I wouldn't try to read a Pratchett in English before Because of how he plays with words, and because we have a marvelous translator. And the book I pick is one with the Nac Mac Feegle, who sometimes are hard to understand even in my language, I must be crazy ^^ For having troubles... I'll tell you after my reading

Aaahhh I see! Yeah, understandable. For me, it's because of that reason, but also because I saw some spoilery discussions elsewhere that made me reluctant to pick it up. (Though I would have been waiting anyway, no matter what the content - because I always-always wait for the paperback release.) I'll get to it eventually... and probably save some of Pratchett's non-Discworld books to read after that, to console myself if necessary (the Johnny Maxwell series, probably. So good! Or maybe Strata...)
You might be crazy, but there's nothing wrong with being a little crazy now and then. ;p

[Mélusine]

You might be crazy, but there's nothing wrong with being a little crazy now and then. ;p

I'll be crazy when I'll try again The Year of Our War (by Steph Swainston : fantasy but more dark and mature with less expected characters, and I can recommend this ! When the main character is an immortal - but could cease to be one - and the only one who can fly but also a junkie, it's a good start when you're looking for an other kind of fantasy books.) and the next two in English. I still have vivid memories of me, ten years ago, trying to read the second one in English with a dictionary next to my bed (Basically, things like "... Okay, that's... complicated architecture words. She's describing the castle. Good. Next paragraph ?")

[Kiraly]

OH MY GOSH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TERRY PRATCHETT?!?!?

*deep breath*

I just re-read Thief of Time which is one of my favorites, and which I haven't read for years. After all this time, I still want to be Susan Sto-Helit. I haven't read Reaper Man in a while either (though I read it for the first time much later than many of his books, since my brothers and I sort of collected them as we came across them and read everything out of order) and your Tumblr posts have been making me want to read it again, Yuu.

I did read The Shepherd's Crown. The foreword will explain this, but it's a little less polished than his other books - for the simple reason that he wasn't done polishing it yet. I don't want to spoil anything, so all I'll say is that I enjoyed it (in a sad kind of way) and there are a lot of elements around the theme of growing up, growing old, and dying. So make sure you're in the mood for that kind of thing when you get around to it.

[Mélusine]

I don't want to spoil anything, so all I'll say is that I enjoyed it (in a sad kind of way) and there are a lot of elements around the theme of growing up, growing old, and dying. So make sure you're in the mood for that kind of thing when you get around to it.

I, errr, well...

[Yuuago]

I haven't read Reaper Man in a while either (though I read it for the first time much later than many of his books, since my brothers and I sort of collected them as we came across them and read everything out of order) and your Tumblr posts have been making me want to read it again, Yuu.

< 3 I read everything completely out of order as well. There were only a few of the books at the library when I was growing up, and the bookstore never had many of them in stock, so... let's just say I'm glad most of them can stand alone (ish). This is my first time trying to read them in publication order.
(And Reaper Man is so good, so good, yessss do a re-read)

there are a lot of elements around the theme of growing up, growing old, and dying. So make sure you're in the mood for that kind of thing when you get around to it.

It sounds like it'll absolutely wreck me. ...Then again, the Tiffany novels tend to have that effect. ;;

[Kiraly]

< 3 I read everything completely out of order as well. There were only a few of the books at the library when I was growing up, and the bookstore never had many of them in stock, so... let's just say I'm glad most of them can stand alone (ish). This is my first time trying to read them in publication order.
(And Reaper Man is so good, so good, yessss do a re-read)

That's pretty much exactly how it was for me too - the library had some and that's how we got hooked, and we ended up accumulating paperbacks around holidays when we bought them as gifts for each other. (I lucked out and ended up with most if not all of the communal Pratchett pile...hopefully my brothers don't mind). Luckily the library system I work for now has a huge collection, so now I can pretty much get any of them whenever I want.

It sounds like it'll absolutely wreck me. ...Then again, the Tiffany novels tend to have that effect. ;;

It might. I re-read The Wee Free Men right after he passed away and pretty much destroyed myself. But it is a good book, and I was glad to get to read one more in the Tiffany lineup. (I also aspire to be Tiffany Aching, in addition to Susan).

[Mélusine]

I re-read The Wee Free Men right after he passed away and pretty much destroyed myself.

I re-read Nation right after. Stoping every three pages, thinking once again "This is so good and I'm so small" and being thankful, especially for this book but also for all the other. *Has a personal story with Pratchett's books and wish now she had the idea to write him a letter before*

I had read the first two in right order, then like Yuu and you picked what I was finding in the library, with a particular taste for the Witches. (I came to Pratchett because of a short novel on the Witches.) And Death

[urbicande]

Totally unrelated to Pratchett, I understood a joke in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I tried to read it in French.

Ford Prefect's character name in French is "Ford Escort" which was understandable as a joke to me instantly.  Ford never sold the Prefect in the USA, but the Escort was a common car.

[Purple Wyrm]

Totally unrelated to Pratchett, I understood a joke in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I tried to read it in French.

Ford Prefect's character name in French is "Ford Escort" which was understandable as a joke to me instantly.  Ford never sold the Prefect in the USA, but the Escort was a common car.

I read something by Adams once where he said that he kind of regretted choosing the Ford Prefect because - in retrospect - there was no way for Americans to get the joke. He said that most American readers he'd talked to thought it was an odd misspelling of 'Perfect'.

[urbicande]

I read something by Adams once where he said that he kind of regretted choosing the Ford Prefect because - in retrospect - there was no way for Americans to get the joke. He said that most American readers he'd talked to thought it was an odd misspelling of 'Perfect'.

Which is why it made sense in the French translation.  They could, of course, have changed the name for the American market, but I suspect that the editors who go through the books changing Britishisms to Americanisms^* missed that one entirely.


^* I'm not a fan of this practice.  We're perfectly capable of understanding British English most of the time and the rest of the time we can figure it out.

[Mélusine]

Okay, we're not enough here to read in French so I won't be long : if you can and if you like well written books, fantasy in new universes, original characters, read La Passe-miroir by Christelle Dabos. Warning : it's addictive and only two books had been published for now. Second warning : this is so good that I wouldn't be surprised to discover a translation to an other language, at random English, a day or an other.

[Crumpite]

Hi, it's me Crumpite... (like you didn't know ;')

I just found a link to some weird Norwegian tales from the 1800's.
What I've read is pretty good, so any fans of weird might want to take a look at this.
All are pretty short, but creepy 

Enjoy !