Interesting Times

I reread Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett.
The cover is coming off a bit. The glue seems to have given up on the cover without losing any pages. This was vaguely annoying until I checked inside the front and it said printed 1995. Then it's pretty much fair enough.
I shall ponder getting a new copy.

I liked all the bits with the very old barbarians (all that practice at not dying).
... having read a lot of rpg rules lately it I kept thinking of level 20 venerable characters. Hit points for days, as shown by never quite being there to be injured, but significant aging penalties to deal with.
I like the descriptions of their economy of movement. All the skill, all the experience, just doing the least it takes but doing it every single time.

Heroes.

Who really need to have a bath and stop treating women as loot.

Very vivid word pictures right there.

They're from another age ie much older fantasy books, which is neat meta.

I like Mr Saveloy the teacher too.


I am not at all sure I like the whole bit in the empire. I mean, it certainly takes a swathe of popular culture and puts a new more discworldy spin on it, but, I guess I prefer stories taking a swipe at Us, cause it's suspicious when it swipes at Them.

I liked Jingo better, but that's along in four books time.


Interesting and well written, but I was uncomfortable with some aspects of it this time around.

The Last Hero

I reread my big hardback of Terry Pratchett's "The Last Hero", with illustrations by Paul Kidby.

That is a brilliant book.

Made of very big feelings. It's funny, often, but it carries you along with their rage at the gods, makes the Code make sense while never leaving it the only perspective, and for a book that makes me happy definitely pulls through a bit of crying at the nearly end.

But I love the end.



And I love how Cohen rolls dice.



It do land me back being very angry that PTerry is dead. But it has good words for that as well. The song remains.

But I think we also remember the singer.