Search results for query: Lord Vetinari

...with Jingo is that there is no underdog. The people on both sides of the argument are equally wrong, so there's nobody to cheer for. Lord Vetinari does at one point neatly express how symmetrical the situation is. I just keep seeing the expressed attitudes as a poison inherent in human...

I haven't read The Three Musketeers lately, but if I recall correctly, the carte blanche is issued to Milady by the Cardinal Richlieu, rather than by Louis XIII. *shrug* Of course, I may be wrong... The only thing we are told about the envelope is that Vimes receives it, and on the envelope is...

Here’s a Discworld BookTag I created this month I thought I must share with all of you. How well you think you know the most emblematic characters of the Discworld series and what other books written by different authors do you think that get along with their personalities? Do you accept the...

The whatnot is particularly delicious. :twisted: Anyway, just wondering if anyone here has played the Discworld Noir game. If so, what do you think happened to after the game is finished? :) I thought that came across just right. From what we can see (or, rather, hear of him), was not too...

Hmm... I'm not sure that bureaucrats are solely to blame. Here's why (warning - do not read further unless you have read the above-mentioned novels): Of these, are obviously government bureaucrats; however, are bureaucrats without belonging to a government, as such. behave more like...

I've just been contacted by an NADW organizer who wanted permission to use one of my pics of Lord Vetinari to make a life-sized standee for the DW Con Exhibit. Feeling very flattered by this and gave permission for free although I did ask for a pic when it is in place for my blog and website. :D

In SM, the situation pretty much took care of itself. (Still, in the Trousers of Time, who knows what other versions happened?) In MP, Vetinari was puzzled, but he didn't issue any orders. He didn't have to; by the time it was known to be really dangerous, the situation was taken care of. In TT...

So, in Raising Steam, unlike in Moving Pictures, and Soul Music, why is the time/place ready for the railway? Why is it an natural development rather than, say film or rock music? And why Lord Vetinari okay with it when in Moving Pictures he doesn't really approve? :think:

What an interesting video Tony! Thanks for sharing it! ;) I know there are lots of different English accents (the same happens with Catalan depending on the area) but nobody had ever explained me one so well… Let alone the way Pratchett embodies them on the paper. He perfectly reflects how...

Okay, we've had the general "Who's the better audiobook reader" debate, but in some cases one reader will do a better job on certain characters than others. So, here's an informal poll: Who do you think does a better job "read-acting" each character? The criteria for character inclusion here...

Well, I kept my word and read “Going postal” again and… Wow! Love it!!! :happy-smileygiantred: Reading things like this I almost blushed: :oops: How can Pratchett be so brazen? Amazing! :o It’s like: your calmly reading and suddenly… Your eyes have to stop and move backwards to the...

Re: Welcome and Introduce Yourself 5 I think my main motivation for joining is thinking that Lord Vetinari would have sorted out the Roundworld financial crisis (if we imagine Ankh-Morpork is analogous with the UK) and ensuing economic crisis by dynamically setting bankers' top-rate of income...

Hi everyone! Wow, your debates are amazing! :o Well, I just wanted to say that I'm recently rereading all the watch seriesbooks and am enjoying them a lot more than the first time. Actually I’m finishing Jingo and I have to say it’s extremely greater than I remembered! Wow, just the first...

Yes, indeed, a very good question. They surely know each other, they have met occassionally while during their job, they have read in newspaper about each other, they have met on officially occassions... but so have Vimes and Lord Downey, Mr Slant and not long ago even Lord Rust too... Although...

...and wants to hit the Mint to become Money. Funny. Thanks. That really helped a lot. And again I didn't know the Italy part from Lord Vetinari but I should have known better, he's got an Italian name. I usually do some research by the names. But when I opened the Lord Vetinari Wiki Page...

...like respectable local doctors and social workers, but I'm fairly sure that Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are not mentioned at all. Lord Vetinari probably should be explained because his rulership is like that of the Medici in the city-states of Renaissance Italy; without that knowledge...

...I really admire and I’m sure that with her among us she would work wonders with her headology! I would certainly visit her! And last but not least, Lord Vetinari. Come on people! The world would be beyond any doubt a better place! Or at the minimum we would know where they stand. :whistle: Mx

...attacked, not just threatened, quite a few times in the course of the series. There has been a bit of fan speculation that the Lord Vetinari Ward is not just a place to stash madmen who think they are him; it might be a safe place for him to relax. He is definitely under a strain. For the...

Mm-mm. I don't watch some documentaries, so I wouldn't know. (-: Anyway, I read about this solicitor/law firm in early France C17th and the crimes were mostly on par with Ankh-Morpork 'suicide'. Vetinari's actions (but I think Vetinari didn't join the upper classes when he became a Lord after...

...drove him mad in the first place, if not the job. I think Pratchett is either planning to kill him off shortly, or dump him into the Lord Vetinari ward. Later, I don't know what possessed him to go on holiday with Vimes, Cheery and Detritus, Fred and Nobby. In previous books, such as Jingo...