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Nov. 20th, 2008 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsI just went and checked my last-year's booklogging, and I appear to have gone all of last year without reading any Terry Pratchett! That may be a record for me since the young age at which I discovered Discworld (eight? Nine? Whenever it was, I cannot take credit, since my mom was the one who brought me back Color of Magic from a trip to England on the vague premise that she thought it looked interesting for me.)
Anyways, this year I seem to be making up for it, since after the Great Johnny Reread I became determined to catch up and in short order acquired Making Money and Nation.
I enjoyed Making Money - I think being On A Break from Pratchett for a bit was good for me, since I liked it a lot more than I did Going Postal, which never quite grabbed me as a book. Moist is still not one of my favorite Discworld characters to follow, but I seem to be warming to him. And the Patrician, of course, shines like a beautiful and fabulously manipulative lamp. I was not sure about the Great Revelation about Bent, since it employs one of my least favorite tropes, but other than that I liked the plot, and while I don't think it's going to rank among my favorite Pratchett books, I had been missing Ankh-Morpork and I definitely had fun with it.
Nation, on the other hand, I loved pretty much completely, and will definitely be ranking among my favorite Pratchett books. It helps that I have a weakness for community-building stories. And that I loved Mau and Daphne both a tremendous amount - Mau is so angry and Daphne is so scientific, and they are both so determined! And that - well, while in some ways Nation is one of the darkest Pratchett books I've read, and certainly one of the most serious, I still think Nation is not as dark as the Johnny books. Yes, it features a lot of death and genuine loss, but . . . while this world is hard, it isn't grim, and there is a significant difference. There is a whole lot of hope and a whole lot of triumph. And while I love the Johnny books too, sometimes you need that.
Anyway, all this recent Pratchett-reading has sparked my curiosity, so: time for a bookpoll!
[Poll #1300910]
Anyways, this year I seem to be making up for it, since after the Great Johnny Reread I became determined to catch up and in short order acquired Making Money and Nation.
I enjoyed Making Money - I think being On A Break from Pratchett for a bit was good for me, since I liked it a lot more than I did Going Postal, which never quite grabbed me as a book. Moist is still not one of my favorite Discworld characters to follow, but I seem to be warming to him. And the Patrician, of course, shines like a beautiful and fabulously manipulative lamp. I was not sure about the Great Revelation about Bent, since it employs one of my least favorite tropes, but other than that I liked the plot, and while I don't think it's going to rank among my favorite Pratchett books, I had been missing Ankh-Morpork and I definitely had fun with it.
Nation, on the other hand, I loved pretty much completely, and will definitely be ranking among my favorite Pratchett books. It helps that I have a weakness for community-building stories. And that I loved Mau and Daphne both a tremendous amount - Mau is so angry and Daphne is so scientific, and they are both so determined! And that - well, while in some ways Nation is one of the darkest Pratchett books I've read, and certainly one of the most serious, I still think Nation is not as dark as the Johnny books. Yes, it features a lot of death and genuine loss, but . . . while this world is hard, it isn't grim, and there is a significant difference. There is a whole lot of hope and a whole lot of triumph. And while I love the Johnny books too, sometimes you need that.
Anyway, all this recent Pratchett-reading has sparked my curiosity, so: time for a bookpoll!
[Poll #1300910]
