• What book is currently on your nightstand?
  • Who is the author?
  • What genre?
  • How do you like it?
  • Would you recommend it to others?
  • Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Been reading Guards! Guards!

    Written by Terry Pratchett

    Fantasy/Comedy

    I’m absolutely loving it right now

    For sure would recommend to anyone with a love of fantasy and snarky humor

    Doing it as a trade of with one of my buddies. I’ve been trying to get him to read Dune for years because I know he’d love it and he finally agreed on the terms that I read this one. It’s been a win win because we’re both thoroughly enjoying our respective books.

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      1 year ago

      I finished Guards! Guards! recently - loved it! For years I struggled to get into Discworld because I kept starting The Colour of Magic and then failing to finish it. Eventually broke the back of it and then progressed onto the other books - with hindsight I wish I’d done what I’ve seen suggested before, to start with something like Guards! Guards! instead of reading in release order.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah my buddy had me start there under the logic that I would enjoy it so much that I would get utterly sucked into the series and he would finally have someone to talk to about it lol. Which is understandable because that’s the same reason I wanted him to read Dune. Neither of us really have many other friends that read unfortunately.

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            1 year ago

            I found Colour of Magic fine once I got into it, but it took me several attempts before it clicked for me - usually made it perhaps 50 pages in and then failed to pick up to again, so restarted a few years later. Whereas when I started Guards! Guards!, I couldn’t put it down and blitzed through it in no time.

            I particularly found that the Ankh-Morpork of Guards! Guards! was a far more interesting and settled setting than how it was depicted in Colour of Magic (where I thought it struggled to rise above being a generic fantasy parody and so never really caught my attention).