Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind
Since the first volume of Discworld wasn’t available on Amazon, I finally ordered this one, not realizing it was a tiny 200-page book printed in big type and destined to teach high -schoolers how to read, baiting them with aliens and video games. Yet I should have guessed from the summary.
Anyway, you recognize the Good Omens style much more here (you’d believe Neil Gaiman didn’t contribute anything to the book, past the original story). It’s funny, pleasant, there’s a moral (killing for real is no joke) and it’s light and fast read, which is quite enjoyable after I finished a Maurice Dantec book.
Meanwhile, I found out that by removing the “u” in “The Colour of Magic” I could tap the US inventories and get into Discworld pretty soon. I had forgotten that American publishers were forced to edit those britishisms for fear of widespread complaints that they’d be so sloppy as not to fix huge spelling mistakes in the book’s effing title. (And I just spent ten minutes trying to rewrite the last sentence in a less awkward way, but it’s almost seven in the morning, so I’ll just forget about it instead.)
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garoo, 7 years ago:
Merci :)
Tu devrais t'acheter un iBook et jeter cet ordi à la poubelle, tu sais :)
Daria, 7 years ago:
C'est pas la faute de l'ordi, c'est que comme j'avais perdu le précédent commentaire, j'ai voulu taper celui-ci dans Notepad pour le sauvegarder en cours de frappe avant de le coller ici.
J'ai oublié que quand on fait ça, Notepad a une façon bien à lui de gérer les sauts de lignes...
Daria, 7 years ago:
*reboote le cerveau*
Ah si, c'est la faute de l'ordi s'il a planté. Mais bon, pour un truc fait avec des pièces de récup par un bidouilleur fou (mon paternel), devait-on s'attendre à mieux? Et ça lui faisait tellement plaisir de faire ça pour nous.
Carbon, 7 years ago:
En complément et redite de Daria, ne commence en effet pas forcément par le 1er volume de Discworld si tu ne veux pas être déçu... c'est loin d'être le meilleur. Mais la série mérite d'être explorée, il y a des perles d'humour là-dedans !
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