I always do this.<\/p>\n
I really have taken the Oscar Wilde saying to heart, that too much of something good is wonderful<\/i> (or words to that sentiment, I can’t be bothered to look it up) and currently that means that I spend all my waking hours with headphones on, listening to Terry Pratchett audiobooks. When I was but a wee lad I used to buy the Discworld novels and read them in the same spirit that I’d read the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy<\/i>, but ever since I started downloading audio versions of the books, I’ve come to realise that Pratchett can have a lot to offer when it comes to plot and character development – or to put it differently, it’s all rather good. (albeit silly at times)<\/p>\n
Since I like compiling lists I made one showing the Discworld novels in their chronological order, ticking off the ones I’ve read:<\/p>\n
[x]The Colour of Magic
\n[x]The Light Fantastic
\n[x]Equal Rites
\n[x]Mort
\n[x]Sourcery
\n[x]Wyrd Sisters
\n[ ]Pyramids
\n[x]Guards! Guards!
\n[ ]Eric
\n[x]Moving Pictures
\n[x]Reaper Man
\n[x]Witches Abroad
\n[ ]Small Gods
\n[x]Lords and Ladies
\n[x]Men at Arms
\n[ ]Soul Music
\n[x]Interesting Times
\n[x]Maskerade
\n[x]Feet of Clay
\n[x]Hogfather
\n[x]Jingo
\n[x]The Last Continent
\n[ ]Carpe Jugulum
\n[x]The Fifth Elephant
\n[x]The Truth
\n[x]Thief of Time
\n[x]The Last Hero
\n[ ]The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
\n[x]Night Watch
\n[ ]The Wee Free Men
\n[x]Monstrous Regiment
\n[x]A Hat Full of Sky
\n[x]Going Postal
\n[x]Thud!<\/p>\n
Some of the uncheked ones I’m quite sure I’ve read already, but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away so to speak, so I’m gonna give em a listen and see if that doesn’t jolt my memory. Currently, I’m nearing the end of Moving pictures<\/i>; Not the best in the lot, there’s too much real-world-influence jokes (popcorn is called banged grains<\/i> and so on) for my liking, but still. It’s part of whatever disorder I have to go through them all. I just can’t bear the thought of not gobbing it all up in one go; A behaviour that can be readily observed whenever I’m making food and subsequently eating all of it<\/strong> regardless if it’s three helpings or six.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n Update: I’ve finished two more: Moving pictures<\/i> and Light fantastic<\/i>. I’m listening to Carpe jugulum<\/i> right now, althought I know I’ve read it already – it was a while ago, so the book is sort of new with just occasional anticipation on my part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I always do this. I really have taken the Oscar Wilde saying to heart, that too much of something good is wonderful (or words to that sentiment, I can’t be bothered to look it up) and currently that means that I spend all my waking hours with headphones on, listening to Terry Pratchett audiobooks. When … Continue reading Pratchett progress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[644,645,624,643],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-lists","tag-ocd","tag-reading","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}