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jbox:

--- Quote from: polaris on August 15, 2007, 12:14:39 am ---anyone like terry pratchett, when i first read his stuff i thought he was a poor mans adams but the more i read of his the more i really like him.

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Pratchett is one of the only authors I actually "collect". But to be fair, Pratchett writes political satire, while Douglas Adams wrote existential satire.  :cheers:

polaris:

--- Quote from: jbox on August 15, 2007, 12:32:07 am ---
--- Quote from: polaris on August 15, 2007, 12:14:39 am ---anyone like terry pratchett, when i first read his stuff i thought he was a poor mans adams but the more i read of his the more i really like him.

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Pratchett is one of the only authors I actually "collect". But to be fair, Pratchett writes political satire, while Douglas Adams wrote existential satire.  :cheers:


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me no clever like that, i had a friend explain me the significance of the symbolism in asterix 'books' recently, in thirty years of reading them i never saw any of it  :laugh: but i see what your saying now you've said it. i think above all i love the 'completeness' of the worlds pratchett creates, and the silliness, just what i liked with adams i s'pose. :cheers:

boykster:
Needless to say, I'm a fan of DNA's work.  My most prized book is a signed first print of "Mostly Harmless" that he signed during his US book tour for that books release.  I can't claim to have known him, any more than I "knew" him through his body of work, but I did have the honor of meeting him ever so briefly the day he signed the book for me.

Shortly after his death, I recounted my brief encounter with him for some fellow grieving fans in a thread over at floor42 dedicated to his memory:

http://floor42.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=979#979

cdbrown:
I'm on Jouster's side and don't do books either - unless it's a comic.  I had pretty much gone 30 years without reading a book from cover to cover, but then a friend bought me a book so I felt I should read it.  I do enough reading at work which isn't enjoyable.  Plus I read the news and webstuff so that's enough for me.

I had to search for Douglas Adams as I've never heard of him either.  I'd heard of the hhgttg (or whatever the abbreviation is) only through people quoting it and then explaining to me what it's from after seeing the blank look I gave.  Never even picked up a copy of the book to read.  Have seen that the movie is being shown regularly on tv but haven't watched that either.

As for audio books, when am I expected to listen to that?  I'd rather watch tv, go outside, play games than read so I'm not going to sit there staring at the wall while listening to someone read a book to me.   :soapbox:

boykster:

--- Quote from: cdbrown on August 15, 2007, 12:08:32 pm ---I'm on Jouster's side and don't do books either - unless it's a comic.  I had pretty much gone 30 years without reading a book from cover to cover, but then a friend bought me a book so I felt I should read it.  I do enough reading at work which isn't enjoyable.  Plus I read the news and webstuff so that's enough for me.

I had to search for Douglas Adams as I've never heard of him either.  I'd heard of the hhgttg (or whatever the abbreviation is) only through people quoting it and then explaining to me what it's from after seeing the blank look I gave.  Never even picked up a copy of the book to read.  Have seen that the movie is being shown regularly on tv but haven't watched that either.

As for audio books, when am I expected to listen to that?  I'd rather watch tv, go outside, play games than read so I'm not going to sit there staring at the wall while listening to someone read a book to me.   :soapbox:

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Do you "do" movies?

check out Idiocracy...right up your alley for you guys that "don't do books"

 :cheers:

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