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Fantasy » alt.fan.pratchett » [R] re-reading the books
| [R] re-reading the books [message #289530] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 14:43 |
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Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly weird as I've
always suspected I am.
I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld books I only
tend to read one storylive in them rather than the whole book. I just
really noticed this when I was rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all
the Fred Colon and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then I
realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM I tend
to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door one, and with L&L I
ignore the UU bit until they join with the main story in Lancre.
I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
a genuine freak of nature.
--
Rhiannon_s:
Just a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong.
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289552 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 18:28 |
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Rhiannon S wrote:
> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly weird as I've
> always suspected I am.
>
> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld books I only
> tend to read one storylive in them rather than the whole book.
<snip>
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
> a genuine freak of nature.
>
I don't do it with DW books but I do it with LotR.
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289553 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 18:29 |
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"Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4fq9h7F1k3e3eU1 [at] individual.net...
> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly weird as
> I've
> always suspected I am.
>
> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld books I
> only
> tend to read one storylive in them rather than the whole book. I just
> really noticed this when I was rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping
> all
> the Fred Colon and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline,
> then I
> realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM I
> tend
> to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door one, and with
> L&L I
> ignore the UU bit until they join with the main story in Lancre.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am
> just
> a genuine freak of nature.
>
> --
> Rhiannon_s:
> Just a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
;-)
Steve
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289581 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 22:34 |
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:28:57 +0000, Blake wrote:
> <snip>
>> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
>> a genuine freak of nature.
>>
> I don't do it with DW books but I do it with LotR.
Hi Rhiannon, I can't be bothered to re-read my entire DW books again on
my own either, so I can re-read several pages of a specific novel in the
morning, and then get somebody like Stephen Briggs to read another several
pages for me on an auto-book in the evening. I then simply just find the
page Stephen's finished on in my own DW book, and continue from there in
the morning.
Makes sense if you've read it all before anyway! :-)
All the best
Sofie
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289583 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 22:37 |
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The time: 20 Jun 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: "Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk>
> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly
> weird as I've always suspected I am.
>
> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld
> books I only tend to read one storylive in them rather than
> the whole book. I just really noticed this when I was
> rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all the Fred Colon
> and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then
> I realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the
> case of RM I tend to skip the Windle Poons story and follow
> the Bill Door one, and with L&L I ignore the UU bit until
> they join with the main story in Lancre.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or
> whether I am just a genuine freak of nature.
I don't, but I would observe that RM seems designed to make it
easy to do so, with the two typefaces.
How do you cope with Hogfather? I count *four* related (and
intersecting) storylines there, (Susan's quest, Death as the
Hogfather, Teatime's gang, and Hogswatch at UU). Do you pick
one, or two closely related ones (i.e. any apart from UU)?
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
Suggs against sexism. It's Madness gone
politically correct.
Jon Holmes, The Now Show 26/5/06
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| Re: re-reading the books [message #289640 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 02:24 |
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Rhiannon S wrote:
[(re)reading one plotline through a multi-plot book]
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
> a genuine freak of nature.
I vote "freak", but here at afp you are surely amongst like company ;-)
However, I have developed my father's habit of taking up a favourite
book and reading a few favourite pages - including starting at the end
and working back by steps, I'd say "chapters" if this wasn't
af._pratchett_ ;-)
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289668 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 08:13 |
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In article <Xns97E8DC09B6DF5daibhid [at] 130.133.1.4>,
Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidchenedelh [at] aol.com> wrote:
> "Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk>
>
>> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly
>> weird as I've always suspected I am.
>>
>> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld
>> books I only tend to read one storylive in them rather than
>> the whole book. I just really noticed this when I was
>> rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all the Fred Colon
>> and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then
>> I realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the
>> case of RM I tend to skip the Windle Poons story and follow
>> the Bill Door one, and with L&L I ignore the UU bit until
>> they join with the main story in Lancre.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or
>> whether I am just a genuine freak of nature.
I do it only when one of the storylines is upsetting to me
(my tolerance varies for certain ones). Sometimes I just
want a particular storyline and not the whole book. But usually
I read the whole thing.
>I don't, but I would observe that RM seems designed to make it
>easy to do so, with the two typefaces.
>
>How do you cope with Hogfather? I count *four* related (and
>intersecting) storylines there, (Susan's quest, Death as the
>Hogfather, Teatime's gang, and Hogswatch at UU). Do you pick
>one, or two closely related ones (i.e. any apart from UU)?
Of course I don't know what Rhiannon does, but I skip the
Teatime parts and generally follow Susan and Death. For me,
UU is optional in this sort of reread, much as I enjoyed it
the first four or five times.
=Tamar
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| Re: re-reading the books [message #289679 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 13:06 |
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Robert Carnegie wrote:
> Rhiannon S wrote:
> [(re)reading one plotline through a multi-plot book]
>> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
>> a genuine freak of nature.
>
> I vote "freak", but here at afp you are surely amongst like company ;-)
>
> However, I have developed my father's habit of taking up a favourite
> book and reading a few favourite pages - including starting at the end
> and working back by steps, I'd say "chapters" if this wasn't
> af._pratchett_ ;-)
>
My dad does that too! and I have developed the habit of getting to a
certain point in the book and then Just Having to turn to the end.
Sometimes I follow certain story lines even on a first reading because I
find some plots annoying (not in Pratchett books though, definitely in
Tolkein).
The other Habit I appear to have inherited from dad is to have a Pile of
books next to the bed, which I'm part way through. My mum can't stand it
because she only reads one book all the way through and then starts another.
n
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #289686 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 13:19 |
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"Daibhid Ceanaideach" <daibhidchenedelh [at] aol.com> wrote in message
news:Xns97E8DC09B6DF5daibhid [at] 130.133.1.4...
> The time: 20 Jun 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
> speaker: "Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk>
>
> > Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly
> > weird as I've always suspected I am.
> >
> > I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld
> > books I only tend to read one storylive in them rather than
> > the whole book. I just really noticed this when I was
> > rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all the Fred Colon
> > and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then
> > I realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the
> > case of RM I tend to skip the Windle Poons story and follow
> > the Bill Door one, and with L&L I ignore the UU bit until
> > they join with the main story in Lancre.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or
> > whether I am just a genuine freak of nature.
>
> I don't, but I would observe that RM seems designed to make it
> easy to do so, with the two typefaces.
>
> How do you cope with Hogfather? I count *four* related (and
> intersecting) storylines there, (Susan's quest, Death as the
> Hogfather, Teatime's gang, and Hogswatch at UU). Do you pick
> one, or two closely related ones (i.e. any apart from UU)?
>
To be honest it's been so long since I read Hogfather I can't remember.
It's the Susan effect, just puts me off it.
Erm, I don't follow the seperate storylines in all the DW books (because not
all of them have them) just I noticed it in books that have two particularly
strong and mainly seperate storylines. Reaper Man I think is the clearest
example, because perhaps of the different fonts (although I only have the
paperback and didn't notice that until it was pointed out to me), it's
almost two intertwined novellas.
--
Rhiannon_s:
Just a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong.
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| Re: [I] re-reading the books [message #289695 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 14:05 |
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naomi posted:
....
> The other Habit I appear to have inherited from dad is to
> have a Pile of books next to the bed, which I'm part way
> through. My mum can't stand it because she only reads one
> book all the way through and then starts another.
The total waste of time following Frodo, such boredom, much
better to stick to the other hobbits ;-)
--
Ciao
Thomas =:-)
<Good sig's are rare>
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #290393 ] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 11:10 |
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"Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk> writes:
> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly weird as I've
> always suspected I am.
>
> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld books I only
> tend to read one storylive in them rather than the whole book. I just
> really noticed this when I was rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all
> the Fred Colon and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then I
> realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM I tend
> to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door one, and with L&L I
> ignore the UU bit until they join with the main story in Lancre.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
> a genuine freak of nature.
In the case of T5E, no, you're not the only one. Then again, I happen
to think that the Colon subplot is the weakest bit of writing pTerry
did in years.
Mart
--
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
--- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #290394 ] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 11:16 |
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Rhiannon S wrote:
> Just a quick question to the group to see if I'm as utterly
> weird as I've always suspected I am.
>
> I've noticed when I go back to reread some of the discworld
> books I only tend to read one storylive in them rather than the
> whole book. I just really noticed this when I was rereading
> T5E yesterday, I was skipping all the Fred Colon and Carrot
> story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then I realised I
> do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM
> I tend to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door
> one, and with L&L I ignore the UU bit until they join with the
> main story in Lancre.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or
> whether I am just a genuine freak of nature.
I caught myself skipping some side-stories in Rumo And His
Miraculous Adventures yesterday.
I think I've done the same with Discworld books, but I'm not
sure which.
Anke
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #290410 ] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 14:08 |
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"Mart van de Wege" <mvdwege.usenet [at] wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:87veqpob2v.fsf [at] angua.ankh-morpork.lan...
> "Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk> writes:
>
I just
> > really noticed this when I was rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping
all
> > the Fred Colon and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline,
then I
> > realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM I
tend
> > to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door one, and with
L&L I
> > ignore the UU bit until they join with the main story in Lancre.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am
just
> > a genuine freak of nature.
>
> In the case of T5E, no, you're not the only one. Then again, I happen
> to think that the Colon subplot is the weakest bit of writing pTerry
> did in years.
I don't think[1] that it's as much as the Fred and Nobby story being
particularly weak, in fact I went back and re-read skipping the Vimes
section this time, as it is the Vimes story is really, really strong. It
was at the time (and maybe still is) one of Pterry's strongest plot lines,
particularly dark and nasty. I'm not sure if there has been a Discworld
story tht has been quite as raw and emotional since.
The Fred storyline does serve as comic relief and is quite funny, it's just
that the gulf between the two styles in the story line is particularly wide.
The same, perhaps, with Reaper Man. It was a really serious, thought
provoking story with a farce counterpoint as well.
[1]I could end the sentence there and it would still make sense, perhaps
moreso.
--
Rhiannon_s:
Just a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong.
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| Re: [R] re-reading the books [message #290445 ] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 17:08 |
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"Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk> writes:
> "Mart van de Wege" <mvdwege.usenet [at] wanadoo.nl> wrote...
>> "Rhiannon S" <mddestiny [at] hotmail.co.uk> writes:
>>
> I just
>> > really noticed this when I was rereading T5E yesterday, I was skipping all
>> > the Fred Colon and Carrot story and staying with the Vimes storyline, then I
>> > realised I do much the same thing with RM and L&L in the case of RM I tend
>> > to skip the Windle Poons story and follow the Bill Door one, and with L&L I
>> > ignore the UU bit until they join with the main story in Lancre.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone else did anything like that, or whether I am just
>> > a genuine freak of nature.
>>
>> In the case of T5E, no, you're not the only one. Then again, I happen
>> to think that the Colon subplot is the weakest bit of writing pTerry
>> did in years.
>
> I don't think[1] that it's as much as the Fred and Nobby story being
> particularly weak, in fact I went back and re-read skipping the Vimes
> section this time, as it is the Vimes story is really, really
> strong.
The fact that the Vimes-in-Uberwald storyline is so strong makes the
(relative) weakness of the Colon subplot all the more grating to me.
But that's personal opinion. YMMV.
Mart
--
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
--- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
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| Re: re-reading the books [message #294434 ] |
Di, 04 Juli 2006 18:23 |
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:06:13 +0000, naomi wrote:
> The other Habit I appear to have inherited from dad is to have a Pile of
> books next to the bed, which I'm part way through. My mum can't stand it
> because she only reads one book all the way through and then starts another.
Hhmmm, I think I'm with your mother on this one - must be my age? :-)
All the best
Sofie
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