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Jan. 31st, 2004 10:43 pmBleah. Today has been a wasted day.
I just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan. I was looking around for a couple of paperbacks to read a couple of weeks ago and remembered![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
qos's recommendation of this book and also picked up another Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. Kay's stories are usually stylized and so the characters are larger than life, but they have the feel of legend to them, and always manage to leave me moved and awestricken. I wish I could write like that.
But to write like that I'd first have to write anything at all. I have an idea brewing, that has been fermenting in my mind for a month or so, but which I really need to develop more.
Men at Arms quickly became one of my favorite Discworld novels.
I am mourning my lost copy of D.C.Lau's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I have a copy of Hua-Ching Ni's translation but I find it too flowery and assuming.
I just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan. I was looking around for a couple of paperbacks to read a couple of weeks ago and remembered
qos's recommendation of this book and also picked up another Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. Kay's stories are usually stylized and so the characters are larger than life, but they have the feel of legend to them, and always manage to leave me moved and awestricken. I wish I could write like that.But to write like that I'd first have to write anything at all. I have an idea brewing, that has been fermenting in my mind for a month or so, but which I really need to develop more.
Men at Arms quickly became one of my favorite Discworld novels.
I am mourning my lost copy of D.C.Lau's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I have a copy of Hua-Ching Ni's translation but I find it too flowery and assuming.
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Nov. 23rd, 2003 09:29 amLast night, a few of us went to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. This is a much slower, more complex movie than I imagined. Nautical technobabble is kept to a minimum, believe it or not, but there is lots of blood, grime, and bloody and grimy surgery with no anesthetic for all you enthusiasts of such things. There are also several thought-provoking themes.
I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, and it has to be the darkest Discworld novel so far. Most of the book is light-hearted, but Pratchett has a way of letting his compassion and concern shine through -- with the effect that a very funny book suddenly becomes extremely moving. And, any book, even a comedy, with a theme that dips into torture and abuse of police authority is bound to be dark in places.
I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, and it has to be the darkest Discworld novel so far. Most of the book is light-hearted, but Pratchett has a way of letting his compassion and concern shine through -- with the effect that a very funny book suddenly becomes extremely moving. And, any book, even a comedy, with a theme that dips into torture and abuse of police authority is bound to be dark in places.
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Oct. 8th, 2003 07:49 pmMy favorite bit of Terry Pratchett's writing which I just typed up for challenging_god is this passage from Small Gods, which captures a conversation between the Great God Om (currently occupying a tortoise avatar) and his Chosen One, Brutha:
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challenging_god is this passage from Small Gods, which captures a conversation between the Great God Om (currently occupying a tortoise avatar) and his Chosen One, Brutha:( Read more... )
