Cue Etta James

[tealin]

This is what I will look like when not at work or asleep for the next, oh, say 24 hours to be safe:



IT'S MINE! MINE! MWAHAHAHAHA!! IT'S ALL MIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!


More for my own records than a desire to inflict my thoughts on the world, I'm going to take a page from Ubiquitouspitt's book and make notes as I read through.

8:40 PM Tuesday
To get the painting out of the gallereah (heehee) unobtrusively, it could have been cut up into squares. Or, hey, a jigsaw puzzle. Why not. I don't see why whoever the thief is would necessarily want to keep it intact.

Stamps. Heehee. He so would.

Whenever I am presented with a somewhat elderly building that is hot and stuffy with an undercurrent of strife, my mind dredges up my middle school. Vimes's office is now located in my Algebra 1 classroom. I'm sorry, Sam. I'm really, really sorry.

Is Mr Pessimal an auditor or an Auditor?

I have plumbed even deeper depths of admiration for Lord Vetinari upon learning his views on Art. TAKE THAT! Hahaha! The idiosyncratically benevolent tyrant of an entirely fictional city agrees with me! Let there be nailing of earlobes!

RELEVANCE. Holy cow.

8:51 PM Tuesday
[after reading Pg. 56] Good gravy, I have a mind like Nobby.

10:38 PM Tuesday
An odd sort of discrepancy I've noticed in the past: Carrot is a dwarf, sort of, yet ... he shaves?

Oh no, is Vimes not going to make it to the last page? He 'doesn't intend to expire' in the depths under Dolly Sisters ... a sure sign of foreshadowing. Noooo!

The 'deep down dwarfs' look kind of like the nomes' (from The Bromeliad) idea of what Outside nomes would look like. I find this ironically amusing.

Okay, the narrationsays that years later Vimes would remember the sound of the brick landing, so he's OK. I hope.

The Mine Sign, the circle with one line through it, which signifies the 'Long Dark,' is half of Susan Cooper's circle with bisecting lines which stands for the Light.

The Apocralypse is nigh: Vimes is getting along with his dis-organizer.

Isn't No Way José one of the associates of Foul Ole Ron? Not in his immediate clique, of course, but one of that general category of characters, along with Crumbling Michael, in the network of BumSpies?

I love the footnote on pg 115 regarding the trollish outlook on time. Yes, it is complicated. I can definitely feel a bit of 'Ayah, I do not want to explain this again.'

Oh my goodness. Where's My Cow. I thought it would be funny but I had no idea it would be so brilliant. And the Vimes version. To die for. But not literally.

Awwww, Sam is a good dad.

11:52 PM Tuesday
Pg. 133 - Angua smells pork pie. Did Dibbler kill ... er ... whats-his-name? Funny, he hasn't turned up to sell pies to the warring factions. Must be that intermittent survival instinct.

Boy, I'm glad I read Fifth Elephant first. I mean, I'd still be getting it, but all the little subtle references...

Well, now I have to get some shuteye, while my roommate goes to bed with Sam Vimes (haha). I'll get it back in the morning. Here's betting my dreams will be humdrum everyday affairs regarding, I dunno, lunch money or something. Really, my subconscious can be so uncooperative.

8:57 AM Wednesday
Okay, two naked attractive young women wandering around a muddy mineshaft is almost verging on the gratuitous. I know, I know, it serves a purpose in pointing out how Angua and Sally have more in common than they would care to dwell on, but ... really. I'm expecting (hoping) we'll find a fault in Sally by the end of the book. No-one can be that perfect.

I am loving the Vimes take on Moist and William, especially having recently read books where we're inside their heads. Who'd have thought, character development. It's like ... it makes the book good or something. Wow.

Bloody Stupid Johnson was quite a prolific ... artist.

Which book was it where Vimes arrests Vetinari? I know Vetinari ends up in the cells in The Truth but was there actually an arrest or was it 'You were conveniently knocked out so we locked you up and now you're charged with treason.'? I seem to remember an enigmatic smirk and a 'Oh, I demand you arrest me' but can't place it or vouch that it isn't imagined. Jingo? No ...

I think Vetinari is a little stressed out. When the Patrician starts second-guessing himself, he's probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown, or at least teetering on the brink of what would drive any normal human being to jump off the Palace. And he's complimenting Vimes to his face. Something is definitely rotten in the city-state of Ankh-Morpork.

12:55 PM Wednesday Sneaked a sketch earlier ... my hour formerly known as 'lunch' has been ravaged by deadlines. : P 1:49 PM Wednesday - Having Reclaimed the Hour of Lunch, a.k.a. Reading AAUGH SCARY IN THE VIMES HOUSE!!! This sequence must be directed by M. Night Shyamalan. COR. Why didn't Vimes kick that ersatz baby-toy Summoning Dark sign out of existence? This can only lead to trouble! The light is fading! Willikins is in da house. What the ... the dwarves have a Thing? Is this some sort of attempt to bring Bromeliad into the Discworld franchise?

4:05 PM Wednesday - I have a smidgeon of free time as the deadline was at 3:30.
A small thing, entirely inconsequential to the book. Pg 248: 'Someone was going to pay for all this ... this ... this thisness...' Once upon a time, I recorded Prairie Home Companion compulsively, and one of the episodes I still have on tape has a line where Lefty the Cowboy says 'This ... this ... divisivness' but until recently I had always thought he said 'this thisness,' so when I read that line, it was like ... whoa.

Haha! TGIO. I would so eat there. They should open up a chain of restaurants near animation schools.

Upon reading the drinks list, I probably wouldn't eat there. But they'd do a roaring trade near animation schools anyway.

Thursday - having completed the book last night
I think Ankh-Morpork is getting a subway system. I mean, think about it: tunnels, all around the city, watertight, with an unstoppable something-or-other for propulsion, rails already laid, and – ye gods, I just realised, the mine sign for the Long Dark which signifies the presence of a mine is the same shape as the London Underground signs. I am brilliant! I'm not sure how I feel about mass rapid transit in Ankh-Morpork, but ... it'll be interesting. And probably humourous.

Vetinari has many things in common with vampires. Just saying. I wonder about Lady Margolotta.

Best recitation of Where's My Cow? EVER. I love it. And I note the use of five exclamation marks. Nice.

I still can't get over the subway thing. :D Just when I think my brain has officially died...

It seemed like there was a little too much deus ex machina in this book, but the whole Summoning Dark thing kinda sorta excuses it ... a little...

Comments

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

TEALIN GOT THUD!!!!! WHOOOOOT! Actually, I got my copy of the good!cover yesterday too, so we's alllll good.

I loved Vetinari's art views. Sadly, I work in a museum's education department, so such pieces of 'art' are commonplace. However, I can say we museum workers are so much cooler than that curator. And we do cool interactive art and drama in galleries that makes art much more accessable. Even Vimesy'd have fun. Promise.

P.S. For extra fun, count the references to Carrot's muscles. It's fun, yet vaguely odd.
P.P.S. Waiting for your doodles with gusto. Hopefully it will get me out of this winged!Carrot kick. (Don't ask)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Interactive art and drama = cooool.

Now, Vimes in an interactive art gallery would be something to see. The Watch field trip. Teehee.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

"What do you see going on here- Sam, stop interorgating the guards! Cecil, step away from the painting!"

Your face

[(Anonymous)]

I have never seen on picture of you don't you like how you look or do you just was us to imagien how you look?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Everyone needs a little mystery in their lives.

Lord Vetinari

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that Lord Vetinari is arrested for treason under martial law in Jingo.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, OK, I remember now, I think... the heads of guilds and stuff demand it. Yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

I think i rather remember Old Lord Rust having something to do with it by Jingo. If i spoke like that for over twenty four hours i think i might go insane what what.

SWEETNESS!

[lepitot.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, the Canadian covers DO totally rock. Wow...

Why can't the US have those covers? Not that I would read it...because I have no idea which book is the first one, and I am taking a wild guess that it won't make sense if I start to read this one? Maybe I should read some of these...I'm sure the library has them...

But that has to wait til after The Great Tree of Avalon, after I re-read Book six, after I finish my novel, and after im totally swamped with schoolwork. Then I'll read it :)

Why does M. Night Shyamalan sound familiar? And...why does his first become a mere initial, and his middle and last name full???

Jon

Re: SWEETNESS!

[(Anonymous)]

This cover does look good but isn't it origionally the British cover, not the Canadian. I know that Paul Kidby- the illustator is British and the books with these covers often come out earlier over here in the UK.

P>S> Right on Wilikins.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yes, the British and Canadian covers are the same, or at least the fronts are, as I haven't seen the back so I can't claim it that far. Paul Kidby ROCKS.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Backs are the same, as well. :)

[sparrowofjack.livejournal.com]

oh he did that recent, and, in my opinion, horrible movie called The Village. I think he does that with his name to sound... impressive. But he isn't. He's a little foreign guy. No offense meant to foreign people, of course.

As for the order of the books, I honestly don't think that Terry Pratchett himself knows the order. Of course, he links each new book to ones he had written before, so there would DEFINITELY be inside jokes that you'd be on the outside of. But it's nice to get a background check on things, so maybe the Truth, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, and Going Postal? I dunno. Give it a try.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Mr Shyamalan grew up in Pennsylvania, speaks perfect American English, and just happens to be of Indian descent. Say what you like about his movies, he's no 'little foreign guy.' Sheesh.

In my opinion, The Village is only horrible if you were expecting it to be a horror movie. As a character study and an exploration of social psychology, as well as commentary on the contemporary culture of fear, it's very good. He also made Signs and Sixth Sense.

I think The Fifth Elephant is a good prerequisite for Thud! but not absolutely essential, and The Truth and Going Postal are tangential at best. But they are good books on their own. Basically any of the City Watch books will give you a good introduction.

[(Anonymous)]

The Watch books are probably my favoutie mini-deries within the discworld books and althought i thought Thud! was good, I still prefer Night Watch- the story seemed to work better with an obvious start middle and end instead of Thud in which the scenes were good but in my opinion not as well connected at points.
Having said that, THUD ROCKS!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Really, though, few books even in the Discworld series beat Night Watch.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I too share your (and Lord Vetinari's) view on Art! W00t.

I read Thud! last weekend. I found it in Costco, and got it VATless. And I would not have realised the thing about the mine sign, but it makes sense.

Ooh, you tease! You're worse than I!

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

You didn't mention any trolls!? Mr Shine and all the rest of them pretty much made the book for me.

And you counted the exclamation marks too? xD We are amazing.

Hey, I never thought of the subway thing . . . that is pretty brilliant. MAN NOW I HAVE TO READ IT AGAIN.* >O

*Which isn't a bad thing, per se, but I do have to try and maintain a healthy and responsible academic lifestyle. School blows. :(

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Mr Shine, him diamond.

And I loved the 'clang.' Ahh, satire.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

A-men! I'm really glad we got to see the troll side, because I've always liked Detritus.

xD It sounds pretty authentic, though. I love how his books have sort of evolved from, what, parody to satire. Parody is more innocent, but satire makes me laugh more.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

:( Your cover is so much better than mine. Sadness.

The Mine Sign, the circle with one line through it, which signifies the 'Long Dark,' is half of Susan Cooper's circle with bisecting lines which stands for the Light.

I think it's meant to be reminiscent of British "Underground" signs.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yes, um ... read to the end.

[infiniteviking]

Algebra 1... Ahahahahahahaha!!!!!

I missed the sound of the brick, and was terrified all the way through.

Re Vimes and Vetinari, someone on discworld compared that section of the book to a 'twisted buddy movie'. (I can just see it.....) Maybe Vetinari was being so straightforward because Vimes was practically falling out of his chair? And I loved his reaction to the news about Pessimal. It's one of the many scenes I intend to draw if I ever hit upon the right character designs.

Actually I loved most of the book. As much, or almost as much, as Night Watch, in fact. There were a few little things that didn't really pan out, like the DisOrganizer and that ancient dragon sleeping under Young Sam's cot... makes me wish it had been about forty pages longer. But it was just so FANTASTIC!!!

[blooappall.livejournal.com]

It's definitely Jingo when Vimes arrests Vetinari.
:) I read THUD! yesterday. :D *sheepish*