1) in my opinion, and that of several others, Night Watch is one of TP's best books. Yet it is at the end of an arc as it were, and the finer points of Character development and a lot of other pointed the book tries to address relies on having read at least some of the earlier books. Have you read any books part way through a series? ( a proper series like WoT or a kind-of series like Discworld?)
I don't think I've read any of them in sequence. I started out with the early ones, but I got fed up with them (I was very young at the time and made the extraordinary mistake of reading them in translation), so I may have gotten a basic introduction to Witches and Wizards, but apart from that I have not followed the sequence. I agree that Night Watch makes much more sense and is much better if you know Vimes and the Watch story well. This is why I never recommend it as a first book to people who want to start reading Pratchett.
2) do you think it affected the quality of your read for better or worse or not at all?
Hmm. I accidentally answered this, I think. Although in general I don't think it has affected my read much. I am good at retaining fictional information, so I get the pleasure out of books I've read later if I've missed things the first time around.
3) I personally think that TP's characterisation, due to the long length of the book arcs, occurs quite strongly but more slowly and subtly across the series. Do you agree? Is this good or bad or neutral? Basically this is a "read my rather silly statement: discuss" question
I agree. Particularly Vimes, Granny and Vetinari, but probably a few others as well.
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Sir Terry Pratchett
- 07/01/2011 05:42:34 PM
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I'm torn between my love of Pterry and my inherent laziness.
- 07/01/2011 05:55:25 PM
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Why do think you don't like unseen academicals as much as the others? *NM*
- 08/01/2011 05:41:30 PM
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Re: 
- 07/01/2011 05:58:54 PM
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What do you particularly enjoy about Pyramids?
- 08/01/2011 05:44:31 PM
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Re: It is self contained, it examines its themes and then moves on, it is packaged to my tastes.
- 08/01/2011 07:45:23 PM
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*NM*
Re: Sir Terry Pratchett
- 07/01/2011 08:21:35 PM
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Heh. I forgot Good Omens.
- 07/01/2011 10:15:01 PM
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Humorous. But his underlying nihilism always leaves me somewhat disturbed after finishing a book..
- 08/01/2011 09:21:56 AM
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Interesting
- 08/01/2011 12:18:56 PM
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To me atheism = nihilism...
- 08/01/2011 12:47:04 PM
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Ok, I fundamentally disagree with you, but I respect your opinion
- 08/01/2011 12:49:54 PM
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Fair enough. However...
- 08/01/2011 12:54:24 PM
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To quote the Angel line that is in the quotes here...
- 08/01/2011 03:29:33 PM
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A lovely word confusion (not quite a paradox but I'm not sure what to call it)
- 08/01/2011 05:38:38 PM
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re: Death
- 08/01/2011 01:33:10 PM
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What nihilism?
- 08/01/2011 04:28:59 PM
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not really a big fan
- 08/01/2011 04:25:33 PM
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A couple of new questions;
- 08/01/2011 06:03:15 PM
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Re: A couple of new questions;
- 08/01/2011 10:53:32 PM
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