when you're strange no one remembers your name

[lyssie]

1. I made it through Color of Magic and Light Fantastic (Rincewiiiiind. Mwah) quickly and with a lot of glee. I pushed my way through Equal Rites, because I figured it couldn't be as awful as I remembered it being (sadly, it kinda was, as it just... peters off into a not-very-satisfying ending).

But Mort, which I've never read? He is so dull. I'm, like, barely 60 pages in and I just... I'm bored. A part of me is like "keep reading! History is here!" Bleh. Maybe I'll manage more tomorrow. And maybe it won't be as predictable. (like, when I'm skipping ahead to see if the next bit has what I think will happen in it and it happens, this is not a good thing--especially when this is the third time I've gone "I bet this happens next.... yep.").

2. In the last week I have written 3000 words of Annie and Jai from Covert Affairs fic, 800 words of assorted other ficlets, and 5000 words of Katherine Grey/Derek Kettering spies and sex and repression. (with the latter, part of it was accomplished by writing scenes that happen two or three years later. sigh. Sadly, if I wanted to finish and file off the serial numbers, there'd be no point as I am not Ruth Rendell.)

3. I am sure I had more. Oh well.

Comments

[mizz_destiny]

Can I suggest Mark Reads? He might be able to help you through some of the drier Discworld books :)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I might give it a look, thanks.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Katherine Grey and Derek Kettering as in Murder on the Blue Train? Ooh, I will so VERY read that if you ever get around to posting. Not trying to pressure you, though.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*small voice* Yes. I don't know WHY I came out of the re-watch shipping them. I expect it's the crack!otp aspect or something.

But they are both damaged people, and damaged people do seem to be drawn to one another -- and he's never going to make anything of himself unless someone kicks him in the balls and says, "dude, shape up your life, I'm not doing it for you." and it is also pre-war-time, which is always tempting because spies are like, my green kryptonite.

And they were involved in a murder, and that tends to change people as well (even if they didn't commit it).

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

Are you doing a Pratchett read? I am but in no particular order (just depends on when the library have the novels in!)

So far I've read Equal Rites (awful), Mort (meh), Small Gods (pretty good), Reaperman (brilliant), Hogfather (out of this world great), Going Postal (also pretty great), Pyramids (um what?) and Making Money (average)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Sort of. I ran out of enthusiasm for the Virgin NAs when I realized Deceit was next (why, Mr. Darville-Evans, why) which I've re-read twice now. And didn't feel like again.

And there was Rincewind, all innocent and un-re-read for years.

Most of the ones I've loved (from distant memory) were either Rincewind or Three Witches novels. We'll see how I manage this time through.

(I've given up on Mort and moved on to Wyrd Sisters which at least has the more entertaining opening line - "Lightning stabbed the earth, like an inefficient assassin." ...WHAT. sold.)

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

Death as a character I like a lot, but the books which focus on him have never been my favs. Vimes, Rincewind, and Granny Weatherwax are my favs to read, but I like Tiffany Aching and Moist a lot, too.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Well, I've read the later Death-focused books and quite like them. I suspect it's Mort himself I find dull. Unfortunately. (also, the plot is a fairly standard one, I expect)

[ellestra.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who didn't care about Mort . So many people put it in their favourite Discworld book lists and I always had problem with finishing it. And I also find Equal Rites disappointing. I really wanted to like it but the only good part was the beginning and then it just gets worse (but I still cheered when Esk came back).

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

That was why I thought I'd like it! I've seen people (not on my flist, so far as I know, mind) talk about how it's Awesome and.... not so much.

I am not going to finish it, because I just have no patience in my old age. I've moved on to Wyrd Sisters. (I'm going to have to track down my copy of Sourcery when I get to that moment, as I'm fairly certain mine has actually been victim of a sibling [so were Maskerade and half a dozen others /still angry about that])

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Heh, I feel the exact opposite way: Rincewind makes me, well, wince, and Death is almost always fun.

But Pratchett is v. good, yes. :)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It's Mort I'm objecting to,really. I quite like Death (at least, I have in his other appearances and did in most of this...), and look forward to seeing him in later books.

(I've never been able to explain my thing for Rincewind to myself. It's possible that I just like cowards with expediency in running away who accidentally save the universe or something. idk. It baffles me quite often, even as I'm reading and going "why do i like this?? augh." It's not like I have a thing for Arthur Dent, his SF counterpart, for instance. I much prefer Ford [and if I get a choice, hey, Trillian, I like chicks who do the math thing...]--and I'm rambling, sorry)