The Color of Magic (Hey, you forgot the ‘u’!)
Hogfather
Going Postal
And I ain’t talking the books.
More please! I wants it!
They’re all pretty cheap at the iTunes store, which surprised and pleased me. You’ll find them under TV shows. Sean Astin (Sam from LotR) as Twoflower? Awesome.
Just started The Color of Magic yesterday, only watching it on the bus to and from work. Have already finished the other two.
There’s the promised TV series of the Ankh Morpork City Watch, but that’s been quiet for a while so I’m not sure where they are in the progress of that.
The book has been sitting on my coffee table partially read for 6-7 months now. I just kinda lost interest about 40-50 pages in. Someday I’ll finish it.
slowly sinking lower and lower I liked the book. I couldn’t care less about any sport whatsoever, and am not sure about it as a movie, but I really liked Mr. Nutt and Pterry’s take on orcs. I more or less put up with the bits about the sport for the other stuff I enjoyed.
Clearly the book is not about sports, but about fame. It’s all about a (reluctant) sporting hero and a (reluctant) supermodel, and the insanity that goes along with that. And a lot of very funny stuff with the Wizards. And maybe a little bit about fanaticism and hooliganism.
I think it lost its way about two thirds of the way in, where the plot took over and the jokes started to thin out, but really the soccer is just a maguffin.
And mob mentality, don’t foget that. The individual becoming lost in something bigger, for either good or ill. It made me understand, for the first time, why people become follow sports avidly, the quasi-religious fanaticism. I saw that there can be something beautiful and transcendent in something that I had previously seen only as silly or stupid. Not my favorite book, but it did expand my way of seeing the world, and my understanding. Don’t know how they’d film that.