Nation

[tealin]

I had an appointment at the bank on Wednesday* but overestimated the time it would take to get to there by bus. What to do in the intervening half hour? Well, wouldn't you know, there's a book store just by the bus stop. Huh. Might as well stop in for a visit, you never know what they might have on offer. Bargain copy of something-or-other ... wait! Nation! And as it was more than a month since its release (here, anyway), they actually had it!

I bought it.

I'd been planning to read it on the anticipated train trip at Christmas but it's amazing how space-time curls itself around a new book. I finished it Thursday evening.

And ... you know ... it's good. Or, at least, I liked it, even though it had a number of things that ought to have annoyed me. There were a handful of Stock Pratchett Characters, a secret in a cave like unto Thud!, and at times it sounded as if someone asked him 'What do you really think about religion? I mean really?' But I liked it enough that these things didn't matter. Perhaps it had been a long time since I'd read through a new work of fiction and then done so in so little time (the last time this was the case, Going Postal happened), or perhaps I was just in an emotionally receptive mood, but it almost made me tear up a couple times and I never cry at books. Didn't really make me want to draw, though. Maybe later.

Yes, Canadian Thanksgiving. Seasons. Weather. Coats and scarves. Good stuff. Going back tomorrow. Wish me luck.**

*Nothing to do with the 'financial meltdown,' just a bank appointment because apparently investing in my future is something that can only be done in person and not, e.g., from 1700 miles away.
**A request, not a demand.

Comments

[danicarip.livejournal.com]

Luck! :D

That sounds like a good book, I'll have to check it out :) But what's this about you _inventing_ in your future? ;)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

LOL, apparently my future involves a lot of trying to listen to the conversation in the room while I type. [sheepish grin] [edits]

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

You don't need luck, you've got a new Pratchett book. That's even better.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Even a new Pratchett book was not sufficient to get our bus smoothly through customs on the way to the airport and not, say, have the driver hung up for two hours while people were missing their flights and being late for work and whatnot. Not fun.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Alas, some things are beyond the power of even great literature.

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

That's delicious. All I got was a copy of Twilight somebody left at a bus stop.

[uberklutz.livejournal.com]

you know, sometimes I think people have every right to demand luck. Though it doesn't make sense... Gosh, how long does a train ride from SoCal to Canada-the-land-of-the-free take?
I must be waaaay dead on the Pratchett boat, I had no idea there was a new one out so quick after "Making Money" (which I still haven't read).

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

36 hours from LA to Seattle according to Amtrak, but we're not going that far for Christmas.

Nation isn't Discworld but it's definitely Pratchett. I liked it better than Making Money.