Mod edit to add this convenience link to Girl Genius. Original OP below:
Last thread vanished with the crash...
So, the Weasel Queen interlude is over. Is this Storm King opera another one?
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Feb 19th 2025 at 1:51:41 PM
Oh, I've read several; I just couldn't fall in love with the series. It was funny, but I think the only character I liked at all was Death, and that was just depressing. I can't keep going back to a series if there's not at least one likable character.
Incidentally, also not a Seinfeld fan.
eta: Total agreement on "Deadly but fun." :D
edited 10th Oct '15 8:35:12 PM by mona.soyun
@mona: Did you ever read Reaper Man? There's no way you can feel depressed or guilty about liking Discworld's Death after reading that; he shows that, deep down, he does care about more than Binky and cats.
Huh.
Wonder if Bloody Stupid Johnston was a Spark on the wrong world?
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettGreybeard, IIRC "displacer" was part of the name given to the dimensional travel machine introduced in The Number of the Beast. Can't find my copy of the book at the moment to verify, though, and the whole "World as Myth" thing was never really my cuppa joe anyway.
edited 10th Oct '15 11:35:44 PM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpPeter Henlein
(only one i) was famous real-life watch-maker, so it's possible the Foglios are making a double reference here.
Well everyone has tastes and all that, so if you don't like Discworld it is not like we will get the pitchforks just for that. I admit I came to read it after being mentioned over and over, specially on site, so I tracked it down and it was hard here. I started with Mort and enjoyed it.
Also how weird it seems that I was logged out but I haven't busted cookies unless my scan went and did that in a just in case.
While I do take the plague mask option as a call with the individual,the Spy vs Spy was more on the fun side.
Well here goes nothingI think that's Gods Need Prayer Badly.
I like the concept, it was the specific book I found kind of iffy for me. Although it wasn't as tedious as Pyramids.
It says something about the late great Pratchett, though, that even the least appealing of his books still had some truly stellar moments.
Spoiler for Reaper Man about the part I found most fantastic (it's near the end): Death goes to bat for every living thing on the Disc, appealing to a being that can make him less than an afterthought if it turns him down. I was blown away.
But to me, the best of authors may have their slow or poor moments, but even the worst has that thing you can point to and say: "That? That was great!" Whether it's a land endlessly recycling the same day over and over, or being in a castle with a mind of its own for ages, there's still some points that just shine.
edited 11th Oct '15 7:01:10 PM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettHehe, in college I sketched out a short story where a kid and his crush get sucked into cyberspace (a la Tron and Freakazoid), which was, for some reason, a real place. They have weird encounters with things like nixies and Santa Claus, and eventually discover that everything humans believed in exists (also kissing).
I wrote a few pages, and then it sat on the backburner, along with everything else not relevant to my degree. And then I found out about American Gods.
Dammit, Neil Gaiman.
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disaprovin'
Keep them sparkies movin',
Spark Guide!
Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope, throw, and brand 'em
Soon we'll be buildin' high and wide
My head's calculatin'
My true lab will be waitin'
Be waitin' at the end of my ride
Move 'em on
(Head 'em up!)
Head em' up
(Move 'em on!)
Move 'em on
(Head 'em up!)
Spark Guide!
Move 'em on, head 'em up, spark guiiiide!
Yah! [whip crack]
edited 12th Oct '15 4:00:22 PM by Daremo
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.I love the "Focus!" too; and also that the doorbell says "Science!". Hmm. That typical post-vitality personality drift doesn't seem to have affected DK as much as Madame Desmana. Interesting that Gil hunted the fellows down, for what I wonder? The implication is for the personality sculpting. I think he may have wanted them for his research on Tarvek-tech, aka Lunevka. They sound like similar techs. Though the Master sounds like maybe Klaus had Gil hunt them down; but with Klaus in Gil that doesn't give us any time frame.
I was reading that as Gil was in one of these after-school vigilante clubs, like Hoffman, and the Master assigned the Hurwood brothers as one of Gil's projects. It's possible Hoffman is a red herring and Gil just worked directly for him, but that's a waste of a good joke, imo. The potential there is hilarious — Gil, captain of he vigilante club.
eta: Note also Wooster says "shut down" and not "hunt down." Perhaps a small difference functionally, but I think the connotations are significant.
edited 12th Oct '15 4:21:13 PM by mona.soyun
It's amusing that the Foglios can't help but keep some sort of superior minion around to keep Agatha on track. Krosp, von Zinzer and now Wooster all have basically the same job, to yell "Focus!" at appropriate moments. It's amusing because while I hate to admit it, I, too, have often needed someone in that position . . .

Nah, I'll just tell you're missing some major fun not reading Discworld -and don't start with Pyramids or "Small Gods. They're interesting, but not his best work. The Last Hero'' is a good one to start with.
I was playing the video game House of 1000 Doors: Evil Inside, and there's a part where you help a robot called Hugo. He tells you that he's working on a chronograph, which can affect the flow of time. (As it turns out, in a limited space. But it's useful.)
What gets me is the line after he tells you about the thing. "That sounds deadly. But fun. Ha ha ha." (Say each "ha" syllable for the full effect.)
"Deadly but fun" sounds like it should totally be on a Spark coat of arms. Really.
edited 10th Oct '15 7:33:35 PM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett