tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post2297717747512487712..comments2023-09-10T16:48:15.803+01:00Comments on Paperback Reader: HogfatherPaperback Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579608422235511054noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-86212909404366431572010-01-04T23:52:54.291+00:002010-01-04T23:52:54.291+00:00Yay, Jodie, I love the Luggage!Yay, Jodie, I love the Luggage!Paperback Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14579608422235511054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-76609467258116782342010-01-04T13:54:16.946+00:002010-01-04T13:54:16.946+00:00Yes I really liked Jingo but many others did not, ...Yes I really liked Jingo but many others did not, it seems to have acquired the status of 'the book whose name we do not say'. I remember really enjoying Sourcery because the Luggage is back!Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462660276240016464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-30244908521780110192009-12-30T19:35:35.315+00:002009-12-30T19:35:35.315+00:00Ana, I love that quote! It is such a clever book o...Ana, I love that quote! It is such a clever book on the nature of myth. <br /><br />Book Pusher, it makes wonderful festive reading for when we don't have the free time to read. I'm finding it far easier this side of Christmas to read as less hectic! <br /><br />Jodie, I fully appreciate your point; it is a very dark book and quite depressing in its way (on the nature of charity as reflected by the Alfred quote). The next book chronologically is Jingo, which is fantastic. I've been attempting to read them in order but Hogfather was an exception for Christmas (oh and Unseen Academicals because it was new); I need to go back now and pick up where I left off with Sourcery.Paperback Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14579608422235511054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-12379609145286785962009-12-29T15:59:38.477+00:002009-12-29T15:59:38.477+00:00Sadly this is the only Pratchett I will not reread...Sadly this is the only Pratchett I will not reread because I find it unbelievably sinister (I know weird huh because lots of bad things happen in his other books but I'm quite happy with them, oh well everyone's cultural baggage that makes up their perfect horror is crazily different). I'm glad you've had a Pratchett year, because he is just the best, what comes next in the chronological order do you know?Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462660276240016464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-3652835219773858362009-12-28T22:49:39.777+00:002009-12-28T22:49:39.777+00:00Hogather is such a clever book, my favourite Chris...Hogather is such a clever book, my favourite Christmas book and the lines about humans needing fantasy to be the place the falling angel meets the rising ape, wonderful. It was also my pre Christmas read, amazing how little time we do get to read at this time of year. Really enjoyed your post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837109525874407713.post-62938214905383941222009-12-28T16:25:45.157+00:002009-12-28T16:25:45.157+00:00lol, gotta love Albert. I love that quote about th...lol, gotta love Albert. I love that quote about the Little Matchgirl. This is indeed a perfect book for the holidays, and I really should do myself a favour and re-read it. It also has one of my all-time favourite Discworld quotes:<br /><br />"‘All right,’ said Susan. ‘I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.’<br /><br />REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.<br /><br />‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—’<br /><br />YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.<br /><br />‘So we can believe the big ones?’<br /><br />YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.<br /><br />‘They’re not the same at all!’<br /><br />YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.<br /><br />‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—’<br /><br />MY POINT EXACTLY."<br /><br /><3Ana S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16092495983972185943noreply@blogger.com