Reading Wednesday

[yuuago]

Currently reading: Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. Not my favourite Discworld novel - in fact, I tend to forget that it exists - but I don't dislike it. I know a little bit more about the early film industry now than I did the first time that I read it, so I'm getting a bit more enjoyment out of it the second time. But it doesn't sparkle the way that some of them do, and it isn't as quotable as some of the others. If I'm to compare it to, say, Pyramids... well, Pyramids is way better. Very underrated book, actually. Go read that one.

I find that people don't talk about this one very often, even to say that they hate it. Maybe it's Just That Blah that people sort of... completely overlook it. I know that I tend to.

Reading next: With the mood I've been in, it will probably either be something random by Dickens, or a crime novel. We will have to see.

Comments

[dhampyresa]

*pushes Fred Vargas novels at you*

[yuuago]

[/adds this author to the "look up and potentially read" list?]

[dhampyresa]

Idk if you remember this thing

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Idk if you remember <a href="http://paris-novel-walks.dreamwidth.org/">this thing<:a>, but I'm going to be reading one of hers for it.

[still_intrepid]

XD I love how this became a plug for Pyramids somehow! (And oddly I also feel like it makes sense to compare them? student-ish main character not really connected to other stuff maybe? Dunno.)

[yuuago]

It wasn't intentional but somehow it happened.

And you're right! I didn't even think of the student angle, but it definitely applies. And also-also, the whole thing where... they're stand-alone books that aren't really connected to anything else and the principle characters never show up again.

Which is too bad, really, because I would have enjoyed seeing the Pyramids characters again. At least, Teppic and Ptraci.