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Jackie Blue:
Stardust is so perfect.
In every possible way.
The film is excellent also, but read the book first for sure.
imagist42:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 07 Aug 2008, 18:46 ---I'm going to second the discworld recommendation, though I will admit I didn't care so much for The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, I finished them, but I haven't re-read them like I have some of the others.
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What's funny is, these are the only two I actually own and have read. There are just so many more that beyond seeing where it all started I haven't had the time, patience or money to dig into Discworld properly.
That being said, I thought both of these were fantastic books (although he only got better with the second one) and if Pratchett outdoes himself as you claim, then by all means, everyone devour him as hungrily as possible.
Lines:
Stardust is one of the few cases where I actually really like the differences in the book and the movie. (The other is Howl's Moving Castle.) They are both so different for being the same story, but they are both so well done it doesn't bother me.
Jackie Blue:
Holy crap dude, if you think the first two Discworld books are good, for God's sake, start reading the rest of them STAT. By the time he hits his stride (around the sixth or so) there is an uninterrupted string of dozens of novels of sheer awesome. By the tenth book or so, the quality is literally about ten times that of the first two.
imagist42:
Well, see, I have the third one (whatever it's called, the one about the girl magician or whatever? Oh, Equal Rites, that's it) but I just didn't get hooked on it like the first two so I never finished it. And since then I've been so busy with other books that the only other Pratchett I've picked up is Good Omens, and there I can hardly tell what's Pratchett and what's Gaiman (not that that's a bad thing, as the superhuman conglomerate of the two exceeds the brilliance of either one on his own). I always meant to go back and give it all another shot but I severely doubt I'll ever have time to sit through every one of them at this point, and I always get conflicting recommendations on where to dive back in or what random selections to pick up.
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