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Snuff by Terry Pratchett AKA the new Watch book!

#1 QuickTidal

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Posted 15 March 2011 - 12:29 PM

I think this book is due to drop in October. I am a card carrying Pratchett fan, and love the Watch books best so I am REALLY looking forward to this new one. That coupled with the recent news that they are producing an ongoing City Watch TV series. Consider me jazzed!

Anyways, Check out the draft art for the cover below (I've spoilerized it only for size). Looks cool to me. Loming the ship and tidal wave (not to mention Vimes). Also, is it me or does all the recent Watch cover art make Vimes look like Clint Eastwood?

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Posted 15 March 2011 - 12:50 PM

In Pratchett's mind Vimes was always modeled on Pete Postlethwaite.

I was so happy to hear that he was doing another Watch book.

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Posted 15 March 2011 - 03:02 PM

Kanubis, on 15 March 2011 - 12:50 PM, said:

In Pratchett's mind Vimes was always modeled on Pete Postlethwaite.

That I did not know, and is indeed awesome to now know.

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Posted 15 March 2011 - 10:18 PM

Cyphon88, on 15 March 2011 - 03:02 PM, said:

Kanubis, on 15 March 2011 - 12:50 PM, said:

In Pratchett's mind Vimes was always modeled on Pete Postlethwaite.

That I did not know, and is indeed awesome to now know.

You want to get The Art of Discworld, which includes tidbits like that and that Pratchett agrees with QuickTidal that Paul Kidby always makes him look like Eastwood. Whereas Carrot is vaguely based on a young Liam Neeson.

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Posted 16 March 2011 - 03:03 PM

i can totally see carrot as a young neeson.

really good news on the city watch tv show as well, something else to look forward too

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 02:22 PM

the full colour cover has been released by Terry VIA his FB account.

check it out! Looks great in colour.

http://bit.ly/mMCAkF

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 03:07 PM

Hope this turns out alright. I've been pretty unimpressed with his last couple of books, Nation just seemed to be retreading old ground thematically and I found Unseen Academicals completely uninteresting. Pratchett's one of my favourite authors, so I'm hoping he's just made a few missteps and his illness isn't taking a toll on his writing.

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 05:03 PM

Unseen was good, if not great.

He is at his best writing the characters he obviously enjoys, which is Vimes, Venitari (venturi? crap I cant spell his name) ITS HAVELOCK, and possibly Moist.

It feels to me like he likes those characters more than the others, and it shows. I enjoy those characters the most in the series as well.

Very happy its another Watch book.

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 02:03 AM

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 19 May 2011 - 03:07 PM, said:

I strongly disagree about Nation. He stepped outside of the Discworld universe and wrote one of the stronger young adult books out there. I found it to be his most emotionally affecting writing since Night Watch.

But YMMV.

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 09:11 AM

Haven't read any Discworld for ages. Not really interested in this for the moment though as I've still got Nightwatch to read (!)

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 09:59 AM

amphibian, on 20 May 2011 - 02:03 AM, said:

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 19 May 2011 - 03:07 PM, said:

I'm definitely in the minority on it, and I don't feel his writing was much weaker than usual (as I felt it was in UA). tbh, I just felt that the humanist themes were done better in some of the mainline Discworld books like Small Gods - which, to be fair, is one of my favourites, so it's hard to compare objectively - and got a bit preachy in parts. It wasn't a bad book overall, though, and would be great by most authors' standards; I just feel that it doesn't stack up against some of his previous work.

Night Watch was bloody great, though. Maybe my favourite of them all.

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 11:11 AM

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 20 May 2011 - 09:59 AM, said:

I <3 Night Watch so dang much, but I can't ever recommend it as the first Discworld book to newbies. The Thief of Time gets that nod, and I urge the readers to backtrack to Wyrd Sisters and then mow the rest down.

I didn't like Small Gods that much. Pyramids seemed to hit many of the same themes and with lighter humor for me. But Small Gods did have Lu-Tze popping up in it...

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 01:16 PM

amphibian, on 20 May 2011 - 02:03 AM, said:

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 19 May 2011 - 03:07 PM, said:

I fully agree with Amph here. I really enjoyed NATION and found the separation from the Discworld series to do him good as a writer for a book. I am also a self-confessed City Watch Discworld fan....so SNUFF will be right up my alley.

I'd love to see him do soemthing else outside Discworld down the road a bit again.

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 01:56 PM

I'm sort of new to Discworld. I've read the first duology, Sourcery and Guards! Guards! and watched the Hogfather mini-series.

I'm going to continue with the watch saga since Guards! Guards! was awesome. So I'll eventually get to Snuff!

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 02:03 PM

Quick Ben, on 20 May 2011 - 01:56 PM, said:

If you liked Guards! Guards! you're in for a treat. The entire Watch series is flat-out awesome.

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 02:08 PM

I've been searching my disorganized library for awhile looking for the book that has the night watch commander reading a bedtime story to his son. Loved that story! The one with the cows? Been forever and I can't remember which book. Anybody?

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 02:15 PM

Kanubis, on 20 May 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

Quick Ben, on 20 May 2011 - 01:56 PM, said:

If you liked Guards! Guards! you're in for a treat. The entire Watch series is flat-out awesome.

I'm planning on reading the watch arc straight through from men-at-arms onwards. I have to get the books first though. I borrowed the three Rincewind books that I've read from my brother, but he has no watch books.