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  • 05-06-2003 2:38pm
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    Chowley
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    When will the next Discworld book be released and what will it be based on The watch or rincewind or who?

    This forum is seriously tucked away, its in the bowels of boards.I only found the bloody thing for the first time toaday.


    :D:D:D
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    ozt9vdujny3srf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭ozt9vdujny3srf


    1) I have asked DeVore if the forum could be moved to sci-fi / fantasy

    2) I did some googling but was unable to find out what mr.Pratchetts next novel will be, I am sure someone will be able to tell you though :P


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    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Considering Wee Free Men hasn't actually been out that long, he mightn't have started another book yet...


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    still haven't read wee free men :( i must get it next week

    has anyone read it? is it any good?


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    Chowley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Chowley


    Supposedly he is writing a DW book at the moment.His plan was to release Night watch at the end of last year and another at the end of this year.Its driving me mad.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    hey, 1 a year isn't bad :)


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    Havelock
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    Inside information,
    The Creator himslf is dure to appear in Easons (O'Connell St, Dublin) in August for the release of his latest book which is out then. I have no idea of what it is, I just know there is a new one then, a friend of mine works there and gave me a heads up.


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    #8
    Chowley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Chowley


    Discworld 028: Monstrous Regiment.

    Is the name and it is out on the 2nd of October according to Amazon.

    Good news.:D :D


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    sweet!!!

    monstrous regiment eh.. hrm, wonder what it could be about


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    Chowley
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    Judgin by the name its gotta be the Watch again, or maybe new characters altogether. But the watch books are the most popular i assume so its a safe bet.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    i was thinking the watch yeah, but i dunno... we haven't had a witch book in a while

    or it could be a standalone character one like pyramids or small gods..


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    Chowley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Chowley


    If its the witches Im gonna cry.
    Id love more of the Watch or another Rincewind book, Ridcully is brilliant and the Librarian ALL the WIZARDS are great.


    :D:D:D
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    Sarky
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    We need more focus on Nobby. A book about him would be nice.


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    Señor Juárez
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    an entire book bout him? not pushing it a bit? the way in which the watch ones go about him is written very well i thought...


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    Nevyn
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    he just to do two books a year one for yule and one for my birthday, now it is more like every 9 mnths or so .


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    Señor Juárez
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    oh, teh lazy bastard loike. shift his ass into gear!


    really though, that isnt such a bad rate. are the books gettign longer in general tho? i notice some of the earlier books to be much slimmer


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    bozzie
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    Originally posted by marclar
    are the books gettign longer in general tho? i notice some of the earlier books to be much slimmer

    is that really a bad thing??


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    Sarky
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    As long as he doesn't start rambling on inanely like Robert Jordan seems to be, then I'm all for longer books...

    So has anyone read Wee Free Men yet? I wanna know what it's about...


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    Señor Juárez
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    yeah, i never meant that it was a bad thing... more value for ur moneh :P


    i havent even SEEN wee free men:'(


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    aye, i haven't got it yet.. really damn want to though

    must drop a few hints around the house that he has a new book out.. my mam likes him almost as much as I do :P


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    Chowley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Chowley


    I think it's primarily a kids book.


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    Señor Juárez
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    go away truckle. make it a rule for everyone tbh. no GTA vice city for you, bold boy.


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    #23
    Chowley
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    unfortunately , yes.


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    #24
    Señor Juárez
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    tbh i think i would give it a go even still... pratchett's writings are genius mehtinks


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    Sarky
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    The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents was a kids book, but I still thought it one of his better books. Read it in a day, it was actually quite dark and kinda philosophical, and a damn good laugh. It only seemed to be short and very light on the swearing. I have no problem with WFM being a kid's book.

    Pratchett's writing has a healthy dose of immaturity in it anyway. He seems to know exactly how a young person's mind works, and all the children in his books are just like the real thing...

    "Sweetie NOW!"

    "Bugger off, precious."


    I'm just after thinking, how can he put the Nac Mac Feegle in a kid's book? They're foul mouthed drunken psychopaths! And they snaffle coobeasty, which is theft!


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    ozt9vdujny3srf
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    I think what makes a great childrens author, is an author who doen't underestimate or patronise children while they are writing the novels. This is why i think his childrens novels still make good reading for adults/


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    Dar
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    Originnaly posted by shinji on the harry potter thread:
    Replying to some of the comments earlier in the thread... There was a fantastic cartoon in Private Eye recently which really sums up how I feel about much literature at the moment. Two authors are introduced at a party; one says, "I write books for adults, they deal with grown-up things like getting pissed, having sex and mid life crises." The other turns around and says, "I write books for children - they deal with childish things like the true forms of good and evil, whether there is a god, the nature of friendship and loyalty, and the reality of the world around us."

    Says it all really


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    ozt9vdujny3srf
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    Originally posted by marclar
    go away truckle. make it a rule for everyone tbh. no GTA vice city for you, bold boy.


    The reason i made that one rule for you was becasue you were being a spammy tard. I notice you have alreaddy broked it once ( that i have seen) and i was going to give you some leeway and wait for it to happen a few times, buut after reading the above, i banish thee from discworld for a week


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    #29
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Alot of info on the new book Monstrous Regiment was dropped by the author himself during Terry Pratchett Week last January on the website http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com. Its all archieved in the msg boards but I'll give you some quotes.


    1.
    "No, Monstrous Regiment won't be a Watch book, although some well-known characters will probably feature in the background. Mostly, it's all new people, and set a long way from A-M."

    2.
    "Unless things go really wrong, both Otto and William de Word turn up in Monstrous Regiment. As I've said before, journoes are as useful as coppers in this respect -- they're easy to introduced into a plot."

    3.
    "All I'll say is that it's based on an old song called Sweet Polly Oliver..."

    Finally the blurb for the book is:
    "It was a sudden strange fancy, and now Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country. But who is the enemy? What is she really fighting for? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined the Monstrous Regiment. "


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