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Death is Jack's constant companion. What's more noteworthy, in a way, is the fact that he's also on his Christmas card list.
Funny, and rather touching.
Funny, and rather touching.
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Jan. 13th, 2011 05:50 pmAnother fic rec, this time for Discworld (it's from Yuletide, but I completely missed it): a plotty novella length police procedural, in which a Black Ribboner goes rogue and goes missing, and Reg Shoe and Visit-the-Ungodly fight crime, and to cap it all, the Patrician is concerned about threats to the Undertaking. I'm picky about Discworld fic, but this really does feel like a missing Pratchett story.
The Case of the Vanishing Vampire.
The Case of the Vanishing Vampire.
Yes, yes, it's another fic rec
Jul. 11th, 2009 11:57 amOnce again, something that you wouldn't think could work, yet does: a Discworld/ Silmarillion cross-over, in which Sam Vimes applies his brand of policing to the matter of the Silmarils.
Evidence, by Camwyn.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's really rather good.
Evidence, by Camwyn.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's really rather good.
Literature maps
Apr. 3rd, 2009 02:04 pmI have found a new toy! The literature map (based on an experiment called http://www.gnod.net/ ) asks you to enter an author, and then tells you what other books readers of X are likely to read (it appears to be run by a German and to incorporate German data).
I can't, having taken a quick look round the site, find out where he's got his data from, but it's fun nonetheless. I tried it with Hermann Kant, because it was one of the first hits on Kant (there's not a lot of stuff about him on the web, and most of what there is is just lifted from German wikipedia), and am torn between being baffled and half-convinced. The closeness of Kleist says 'German undergraduate reading list' to me, but I'm intrigued by the presence of Raymond Chandler (who Kant riffs on at various points in Die Aula and Terry Pratchett. Which I wouldn't have thought... but then I do read rather a lot of Pratchett, and I suppose there's a certain amount of similarity, even though Pratchett writes fantasy and Kant doesn't...
The Terry Pratchett one's quite interesting, too (and seems quite plausible).
Find it hard to believe that Tolkien fans are more likely to read Tom Clancy than CS Lewis, though, and am inclined to think something is skewing the sample (possibly this is it being a German site - Lewis is still quite obscure in Germany. All the same, Tom Clancy?)
ETA: found how it works. There's an interface where you stick in three favourite authors. Then it suggests names other people who like some of yours have liked, and you rate them as 'like' 'dislike' 'haven't read'. Not v. scientific, but a perilously addictive way of wasting time....
I can't, having taken a quick look round the site, find out where he's got his data from, but it's fun nonetheless. I tried it with Hermann Kant, because it was one of the first hits on Kant (there's not a lot of stuff about him on the web, and most of what there is is just lifted from German wikipedia), and am torn between being baffled and half-convinced. The closeness of Kleist says 'German undergraduate reading list' to me, but I'm intrigued by the presence of Raymond Chandler (who Kant riffs on at various points in Die Aula and Terry Pratchett. Which I wouldn't have thought... but then I do read rather a lot of Pratchett, and I suppose there's a certain amount of similarity, even though Pratchett writes fantasy and Kant doesn't...
The Terry Pratchett one's quite interesting, too (and seems quite plausible).
Find it hard to believe that Tolkien fans are more likely to read Tom Clancy than CS Lewis, though, and am inclined to think something is skewing the sample (possibly this is it being a German site - Lewis is still quite obscure in Germany. All the same, Tom Clancy?)
ETA: found how it works. There's an interface where you stick in three favourite authors. Then it suggests names other people who like some of yours have liked, and you rate them as 'like' 'dislike' 'haven't read'. Not v. scientific, but a perilously addictive way of wasting time....
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May. 20th, 2008 11:01 pmHave just been listening to "On the Ropes" on BBC R 4, with Terry Pratchett talking about his Alzheimers diagnosis, and am now feeling decidedly sniffly, not just because it's terribly sad, but because I am so filled with admiration for the way he's taking it - with humour, courage, refusal to be made helplessly miserable, and a good deal of gumption (you can tell he's Granny Weatherwax's creator).
JH: And yet you must have bad moments - dark nights of the soul.
TP: Yes, of course I do. But we all have those, anyway. And then you get up in the morning.
I'm slightly in awe of him, actually - I wish I had half his guts and hopefulness.
JH: And yet you must have bad moments - dark nights of the soul.
TP: Yes, of course I do. But we all have those, anyway. And then you get up in the morning.
I'm slightly in awe of him, actually - I wish I had half his guts and hopefulness.
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Feb. 16th, 2007 10:31 pmWhy, oh why can't I find any clips from House of Cards on You Tube, leaving me unable to demonstrate to an American friend why the moment in the Hogfather film where Death says 'You might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment' is, while admittedly gratuitous and borderline OOC, screamingly funny?
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Sep. 24th, 2006 03:23 pmBecause I'm bored, I've borrowed the Character Love Meme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dolorous_ett
Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will write no more than 100 words on why I love them.
Fot the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms are defined as Harry Potter, Tolkien, Doctor Who (but please bear in mind that I have never seen an episode of Six and my knowledge of Old Who is somewhat patchy), Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy L Sayers, Terry Prachett, and Star Trek (TOS and DS9).
dolorous_ettName a character from one of my fandoms, and I will write no more than 100 words on why I love them.
Fot the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms are defined as Harry Potter, Tolkien, Doctor Who (but please bear in mind that I have never seen an episode of Six and my knowledge of Old Who is somewhat patchy), Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy L Sayers, Terry Prachett, and Star Trek (TOS and DS9).
