# Books by your favorite author you're glad you didn't read first **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-by-your-favorite-author-youre-glad-you-didnt-read-first/529713 "2010-02-19T23:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-by-your-favorite-author-youre-glad-you-didnt-read-first/529713/81 "2010-02-25T01:54:54Z")
> [@Staver808](#): > > And to the one who said they didn’t like drunken Vimes, I kind of like him more. He pulled himself together and made something of himself. It makes where he is now all that more special to me. Not many people can just walk away from an addicition like that. And that’s why he’s a hero. He stepped up to the plate when his people really needed him. It’s not that I don’t like drunken Vimes. It’s that I think (since in some ways his alcoholism is played for laughs in the Guards! Guards! in a way that it’s not later on) that I appreciate him more having seen what his addiction is like and how he deals with it before I saw just how bad it really was when he was “brung low.” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-by-your-favorite-author-youre-glad-you-didnt-read-first/529713/82 "2010-02-25T02:16:22Z")
> [@Anduril](#): > > What one scene? My guess was the prepubescent gang-bang in the sewers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-by-your-favorite-author-youre-glad-you-didnt-read-first/529713.md?page=4)