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elucrehAll I've typed about lately is angst. Well, and TC. ^_^
But I meant to update on this stuff, I swear:
Wednesday night we went to an Indian restaraunt, and I actually enjoyed the food (this is bizarre, I never like anything with flavor). We then spent an hour measuring our heights and working out whether we were anywhere near the Grecian mathematical principle the Golden Mean. Then we watched Indiana Jones and tried to wax our legs with a Middle Eastern wax method. It didn't work--we teased Amelia it was because she didn't know what she was doing, even though she's been doing it for years--but I think really it was because we didn't have time to let the stuff cool enough to work. However, I would just like to stop and rejoice in the fact that I have a group of close friends who will spend an evening chasing sunset gaps in the houses on the hill, calculating Greek aesthetics, and playing with melted sugar.
I love my Aunt Jill. Have I said that? She is just the most amazing person. My uncles have fabulous taste in wives. (Of course, that may be because their mother, my grandmother, is fabulous in the same way. Except that on my dad's side they also had excellent taste, and it doesn't apply to them.)
Jess came to my house Saturday and we did nothing. It was great fun. We read I'm With Stupid, each of us taking a part. I love that book, have I mentioned that?
Also she leant me Good Omens, and I will say that I think that it clearly shows that even Terry Pratchett had to mature his talent before it was as amazing as it currently it is.
Question: trying to get an image as my background in my LJ. Not repeated, but just stretched out. How do I do this? MY LJ EXPERTS, HELP ME! HELP ME PLEASE!
But I meant to update on this stuff, I swear:
Wednesday night we went to an Indian restaraunt, and I actually enjoyed the food (this is bizarre, I never like anything with flavor). We then spent an hour measuring our heights and working out whether we were anywhere near the Grecian mathematical principle the Golden Mean. Then we watched Indiana Jones and tried to wax our legs with a Middle Eastern wax method. It didn't work--we teased Amelia it was because she didn't know what she was doing, even though she's been doing it for years--but I think really it was because we didn't have time to let the stuff cool enough to work. However, I would just like to stop and rejoice in the fact that I have a group of close friends who will spend an evening chasing sunset gaps in the houses on the hill, calculating Greek aesthetics, and playing with melted sugar.
I love my Aunt Jill. Have I said that? She is just the most amazing person. My uncles have fabulous taste in wives. (Of course, that may be because their mother, my grandmother, is fabulous in the same way. Except that on my dad's side they also had excellent taste, and it doesn't apply to them.)
Jess came to my house Saturday and we did nothing. It was great fun. We read I'm With Stupid, each of us taking a part. I love that book, have I mentioned that?
Also she leant me Good Omens, and I will say that I think that it clearly shows that even Terry Pratchett had to mature his talent before it was as amazing as it currently it is.
Question: trying to get an image as my background in my LJ. Not repeated, but just stretched out. How do I do this? MY LJ EXPERTS, HELP ME! HELP ME PLEASE!
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Date: 2004-07-12 11:31 am (UTC)Also she leant me Good Omens, and I will say that I think that it clearly shows that even Terry Pratchett had to mature his talent before it was as amazing as it currently it is.
You've never read that before?
That's probably the third Pratchett book I've ever read, following Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies (the library was pretty limited on their Pratchett collection back then).
It's also Neil Gaiman's first foray into novel-writing, so there'll be some questionable moments in the story. And they have very similar styles, probably mostly due to them having that dry British sense of humour, but if you've read enough of them individually, you can tell who wrote which scene and stuff like that.
I think 2 or 3 Discworld books are dedicated to Neil Gaiman.
And I dunno about Terry maturing his talent around G.O. 1991 is around a time when he's been writing Discworld for about a decade, and he's been a published writer since late 60's-mid 70's, so he's had plenty of time to totally develop himself and take himself and the series more seriously as a writer.
Have you read his pre-Discworld sci-fi works like Strata and The Dark Side of the Sun, where the Discworldian ideas were very much in PTerry's conscious, where the first images of Discworld were just coming to be?
Have you read the Discworld series in order in which they were published? That is the best way to see how far PTerry has come, how his writing has become more serious with less puns but still retaining his Voice as a writer and originator of the books, and retaining the tone of the multiverse he's created. It's beyond amazing.
Gosh, it's been so long since I gushed on PTerry. Sorry that you had to bear some of it.
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Date: 2004-07-12 11:43 am (UTC)I hadn't read GO before, no. Or any of his earlier stuff. And yes, I did read the Discworld stuff in the order it was written, but I really think that as a difference between his "early" and "later" works--GO contrasted to NW, for instance, is a classic example of how much he's progressed. That was what I meant--not that it was a maturing point, but that it was an example of what he was like before he matured.
Please, feel free to gush over PTerry. I love him too, after all!
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Date: 2004-07-12 12:14 pm (UTC)but I really think that as a difference between his "early" and "later" works--GO contrasted to NW, for instance, is a classic example of how much he's progressed. That was what I meant--not that it was a maturing point, but that it was an example of what he was like before he matured.
Noted and understood. It sort of hard to pinpoint exactly where a more serious outlook in writing became prevalent in any of the books, since it's rather gradual, and each book has that sense of developing seriousness. Does that make sense?
To compare NW with everything else that came prior to it... it's such a drastic change in tone and maturity... and yet all that change is in all the books. It's quite a paradox, really.
My impression when I met TP a few years ago is that he's still the humourist, the way he speaks is exactly the way he writes, only now he's a lot older, so a lot of his experiences and outlook are more dominant in his latest works.
I love PTerry, have I mentioned that?
PTerry-gushing abounds, yay!
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Date: 2004-07-12 01:40 pm (UTC)He is fantastic, isn't he? *sends PTerry virtual chocolate*
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Date: 2004-07-12 01:39 pm (UTC)Re: Background
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