Bookses...

[jsbowden]

So, you may have guessed what I read over the weekend. I enjoyed it. But then, Vimes is my favorite. Not that I would object to another Witches or Death installment.

I started Anansi Boys, and have Son of a Witch in the queueueueueueue.

It's a .gov holiday today, so we're not terribly busy, and traffic was non-existant. Always fun, that.

Comments

[dilickjm.livejournal.com]

At this point, I'm loath to see *any* change in Pratchett, simply because he's written (IMHO) 3 of his strongest books -- sequentially. I'll keep my money on him until he goes cold. If that means 6 more Guard-centric books, so be it.

Anansi Boys, to me, was fun, light, and ultimately, forgettable. It was enjoyable, so I don't regret buying it, but I was hoping that Gaiman would flex his novelist muscles a bit more.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Almost sequentially. I still rate Monstrous Regiment as a middling Discworld book. Nightwatch, Going Postal, and Thud! are definately in the top five, with Nightwatch still being the best of breed to date, IMHO.

[dilickjm.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I thought he published MR before NW. Just shows how forgettable I thought it was. Not *bad* per se, just lightweight. Better than most of the Rincewind ones, but below almost all the others.

I agree that Night Watch is his strongest work to date. I can't recommend it as a starting point of Pratchett, since it works on so many more levels when you know the rest of the Guards books, but he really was brilliant in that one.

I don't remember which LJ I talked about this before, but I think the major flaw in Going Postal was that it followed Night Watch. It's a really, really, really good book, but suffers in the comparison.

Thud! is, IMHO, his 2nd strongest work ever, ranking right behind Night Watch. Damn, can't lj-cut in comments, so I won't say *why* I think that, other than it involves _Where is my cow?_ and Vimes' uncompromising integrity. That entire scene could have gone so many ways, yet PTerry managed to make it humorous without making Vimes a caricature. That whole scene literally took my breath away.