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...

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[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. :)