Worldcon participants

[stacer]

So I was looking at who would be presenting at Worldcon, and I see Tamora Pierce, of the Alanna series fame, will be presenting. I'm not sure who all I'll recognize will be there, as the list is really long and I've just been glancing. Interesting, though.

[stacer]

Oh, and there's also a Ruth Sanderson on there, but no Brandon Sanderson. However, Moshe is on the list.

[EUOL]

Heh.  I suspect they're a bit behind.  I don't think that list has changed in a while, and I STILL haven't gotten the program list to let me know which panels I'm on....

[stacer]

And speaking of people presenting, I've also decided to start reading some Terry Pratchett, so I'll know what he's talking about. He's just someone I've never gotten around to reading. I grabbed the first book in the Discworld series because it was cheap and handy. Would you guys say that's a good place to start?

[EUOL]

Unfortunately, the first Diskworld book is supposed to be the least impressive.  I hear Nightwatch is one of his best, as is Good Omens.  

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I started with book 3 (Equal Rites) and really enjoyed it. I read the first 2 books later and didn't care for them at all. Especially the first one I thought wasn't well written--and the style is rather different from the other books.

Small Gods and Pyramids are both good books in the series that stand on their own.

I forget which is the first of the watch books.

Good Omens is very funny and not a Discworld book.

[EUOL]

That's interesting.  It changed my text.  Why was the 'wat' in Nightwatch changed by the profanity filter, do you suppose?

[Spriggan]

umm beause that "wat" starting with a "t" is slang for a female groin.

[EUOL]

Yeah, but it left the 't' in.  

Ah, well.  Computers are silly.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

wait. I'm confused now.

was the original spelled
n i g h t w a t c h ?
because then all it did was replace t w a t with "thingy"

as you'll see, it appears the "t" is left, but it's just part of the replacement


Though what's hilarious is I just did a test of that, and it appears to not have replaced anything

[EUOL]

Oop, you're right SE.  That's a bit of an optical illusion.

[fuzzyoctopus]

twat

/me is far more amused by this than she should be.

The Allegience message board does it too. J.T. just told me he was trying to post about the game "God of War" and it posted it as "The happy chicken of war."

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm firmly in the happy chicken of war's camp. I mean, you never want unhappy chickens around soldiers. Bad for morale.

[Fellfrosch]

If you're going to read Discworld, go for the books about the City Watch--I can't remember any of the names right now, but they're his best ones. (Not counting Good Omens, which is primarily good because of Gaiman rather than Pratchett.)

[EUOL]

I dissagree, there, by the way.  I think I liked the Pratchett sections of OMENS better than the Gaiman.  (However, I divided them in my mind, so maybe what I actually liked was Gaiman.)