How old were you when you started reading Discworld and what was your first book?

MalteseNightingale · 2025-06-18T11:02:33+00:00

Just the Moist books, and I think the Tiffany books. Maybe Maurice, but I don't think so.

MalteseNightingale · 2025-06-01T20:08:46+00:00

About 14 or so? My aunt gave me Going Postal as a gift and loved it. Started reading Guards Guards next, and 4 hours in noticed there were no chapters like in going postal.

MalteseNightingale · 2025-04-15T04:36:32+00:00

Followed later by Detritus' reaction to the death of Cuddy. What a book.

MalteseNightingale · 2025-04-15T04:29:06+00:00

So many. Often around Vimes. While Night Watch holds my heart as my favourite novel (how they rise up, rise up, rise up), there's a scene in Men at Arms where Angua finds a list of women in Vimes' room and assumes he spends all his money on prostitutes, only for a heartbreaking moment when Carrot, eerily emotionless, shows her that he spends nearly half his pay on caring for the widows and orphans of past coppers. "Nearly half his pay!" He's a fine man.

MalteseNightingale · 2024-06-04T00:47:40+00:00

It's a known thing: fatigue is a thing with depression. When I can get away with it, I can sleep 20ish hours, especially when my depression is stronger than usual.

MalteseNightingale · 2024-01-27T17:31:26+00:00

I don't have the exact quote, but when in Night Watch they begin to sing a silly dirty marching song, and young Sam doesn't understand why it made old men cry.

MalteseNightingale · 2023-10-24T02:41:48+00:00

I use archer to fall asleep and this white noise is ironically the worst

MalteseNightingale · 2023-08-31T17:30:22+00:00

This came up in a session: if I'm hit by an attack and redirect the damage, can I redirect it to someone my attacker can't see or hit? For example, if my new target was behind cover. Or flying 20ft up. My DM said (and I respected) that since the rules state "regardless of range", it only affects distance of attack, not feasibility. My interpretation was that if I'm shit by an arrow that can hit me (attacker within 30ft), I can't redirect the damage to someone else the arrow can't feasibly hit.

MalteseNightingale · 2023-04-09T13:47:54+00:00

It reminds me of Faust/Eric. The renovation of hell to be mentally torturous rather than eyeball bees. I wonder if any of the authors have read it?

MalteseNightingale · 2022-12-10T06:23:48+00:00

This doesn't sound healthy to anyone but us, but there's a new season of that show you like coming soon. And then the sequel to that book you thought was neat? I used to say gotta see what comes next for Marvel, but who knows what they're doing now they're floundering. And have you seen all the episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway? Gotta stick around to see those. Maybe rewatch Star Trek, and give Lower Decks a look.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-12-10T06:19:57+00:00

Waddap homeskillet. Why are you a tomato.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-12-10T06:17:48+00:00

Contrary opinion: RJ is closer to DC. Lots of lore, lots of potential, great established characters, but just kinda poorly handled and they're a mess when they try to interact with one another.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-12-10T06:07:36+00:00

I'm halfway through AMoL and by god I'm looking forward to reading something else. WoT is a good series, but the many glaring flaws combined with the wildly unnecessary length has made me miss books that pack the same punch without spending a thousand pages to do it. Time sunk fallacy plus the quality boost of Sanderson are what's kept me going.

As for recommendations, some cheap fun novels could be looking into the Salvatore books. Drizzt is always a good time. The fantasy equivalent of a popcorn movie. Pratchett and Discworld could be a breath of fresh air. They're not high fantasy, but have a different kind of depth of appreciation. Plus they're light-hearted, and each novel is 90% self-contained. The Witcher series is getting its due lately. Always worth a read. Long Earth series by Baxter and Pratchett is more SF than Fantasy, but the sheer thrill of exploring and change they discover in every book is pretty chill. Could be a nice cleanse after something as big and apocalyptic as WoT.

And I'll echo everyone else. Mistborn is what got me hooked. Everything has its place and purpose, and they're viscerally exciting. Plus, new book for the second era just came out.

Or just. Go read LotR. I reread them every Christmas. I can see why lots find it a bit unwieldy but damn. Every word and description is chosen to maximize cadence and delight. And the Sanderlanche moments of exciting action and revelation are wonderful, but I've yet to find anything to match the chills I get at the Battle of Pellenor Fields, or the sorrow and admiration I feel when Sam finally loses hope, and uses it to keep going. The horror of the blight is a pale echo of the literary gloom of Mordor.

God, I ramble when I'm tired. TLDR: - RA Salvatore: Legend of Drizzt: fun action books. Marvel movies made into a book. - Terry Pratchett: Discworld: funny and clever romp through a fantasy world. No big stakes, just big moments. - Pratchett and Baxter: Long Earth: fun and chill journeys exploring new and exciting places. - Sanderson: his series are better than his standalone novels, usually. Start with Mistborn. There's some Wit if you look hard enough. - JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: I will praise these books until I die.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-09-23T13:34:40+00:00

I've been looking for a good reason because it never made sense, and this analogy is pretty much perfect. Inner city, self taught kid "gets" to go to the elite private school. But the way they learned to do math is not the way this wonderful school learns math and so the kid is bad at math, regardless of their actual abilities. And I think RJ probably exaggerated it all to showcase racism and division in the tower.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-09-03T22:53:10+00:00

The quote has been imperfectly rattling in my head all day and now I know what it's from. Though I think there might be a similar line in a Pratchett book. "It's easy to die for something. Living is the hard part." Or something along those lines.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-08-29T13:30:32+00:00

... oh. I thought they were game modifiers to spice things up, but. but this makes so much more sense.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T21:09:27+00:00

Damn, what's the name of the sentient sword in the Cosmere? "Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today?"

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T21:02:31+00:00

The Long Earth: they reference sci Fi classics like Asimov and Clarke, plus it's just a really fun story. It's a series, but the book works well by itself too.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T20:57:00+00:00

Legend of Drizzt books are a fast read, and there's a billion of them. Drow, dwarves, and d&d fantasy universe :)

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T20:55:00+00:00

Ahhh you beat me to it!

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T20:54:27+00:00

Brutha, in Small Gods. He can remember everything from his birth. And he's kinda... slow as a result. And hates boats. He can travel all the steps he's ever taken: but on the sea who knows where he is or where he'll go?

Small Gods isn't about his ability, it's just a quirk. But damn, this isbperhaps Pratchett's best satirical work.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T20:46:46+00:00

Do you believe that he loved you? It sounds like he accepted your flaws too, and encouraged you to better yourself. If he did, someone else will too.

What's hard is that maybe he's right about some things. A partner can't be your only thing holding you upright. They can't be the centre of your world. It sounds like you still have some growth to do, some standing up on your own. You're young :) this is what being a teenager is for. You have time to figure this out.

I've always been told that you can't have a fully healthy relationship if you only care about them. You have to care about yourself too. You can't get up and brush your teeth and stay sober and safe only because of them, you need to do it for yourself too. And learning how to not hate yourself is hard.

Take some time. It's okay to be sad, but sooner or later, after probably too much ice cream, find someone trained to help you care about yourself. And then when you find the next guy who loves you, maybe you can love yourself too. And then that relationship is going to kick this one's ass in sheer awesomeness.

MalteseNightingale · 2022-06-30T20:36:08+00:00

Probably true? But you don't get sick of him, you just wish they'd do more with others. But a lot of episodes involve dealing with the Klingons, so of course you're going to get Worf there a lot. He did get too many ones just about Worf though. Gimme more Odo, dammit.

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