Mark Reads Discworld
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No probs, high eight. I'm always interested in history and mythology, no matter where it comes from. 
To be honest, I couldn't care less what Mark thinks of TLC. I live in Australia and I pissed myself laughing (not literally, of course!) while reading TLC. :twisted:
I also couldn't care less what Mark thinks of Discworld. I've given up on that knob as long time ago as Mort.
Sigh... I know that not all Americans may understand UK culture, idioms, expressions etc., and that's fine. I'm an Aussie and I've studied UK history, geography, literature, and language for over 10 years, and I still don't know everything about the UK, which is what makes it interesting. But to then turn around and say that Terry is racist, well...
I remember reading that someone - I don't remember who - once said that there were two types of people. One type doesn't "get" you, and would say, "I don't understand this person. What's wrong with me?"
And the other type doesn't "get" you, and would say, "I don't understand this person. What's wrong with him?"
To be honest, I couldn't care less what Mark thinks of TLC. I live in Australia and I pissed myself laughing (not literally, of course!) while reading TLC. :twisted:
I also couldn't care less what Mark thinks of Discworld. I've given up on that knob as long time ago as Mort.
Sigh... I know that not all Americans may understand UK culture, idioms, expressions etc., and that's fine. I'm an Aussie and I've studied UK history, geography, literature, and language for over 10 years, and I still don't know everything about the UK, which is what makes it interesting.
But to then turn around and say that Terry is racist, well... I remember reading that someone - I don't remember who - once said that there were two types of people. One type doesn't "get" you, and would say, "I don't understand this person. What's wrong with me?"
And the other type doesn't "get" you, and would say, "I don't understand this person. What's wrong with him?"
Cheers Rathdarkblade - I've given up watching Mark read Discworld and I might well give up reading the comments soon - they;re not doing my blood pressure any good!
The Last Continent is my favourite Rincewind book and it is nice to know what a genuine Aussie thinks of it.
British humour can be very 'non-pc' at times and in my opinio is a lot better for it - I love the "did he/she really just say that?" shock. Getting offended straight away without thinking about it first id just plain silly, imo. For example, one of Mark's followers complained bitterly about fantasy authors who use a 'mash-up' of China and Japan as default 'eastern' without bothering to consider that maybe that is the kind of thing that Terry is satirising.
The "he doesn't get it" comment was by Terry himself, btw.
The Last Continent is my favourite Rincewind book and it is nice to know what a genuine Aussie thinks of it.
British humour can be very 'non-pc' at times and in my opinio is a lot better for it - I love the "did he/she really just say that?" shock. Getting offended straight away without thinking about it first id just plain silly, imo. For example, one of Mark's followers complained bitterly about fantasy authors who use a 'mash-up' of China and Japan as default 'eastern' without bothering to consider that maybe that is the kind of thing that Terry is satirising.
The "he doesn't get it" comment was by Terry himself, btw.
Tonyblack said:
The Last Continent isn't one of my favourites, but it does have some really interesting concepts in it. The whole "they have something worse than chains" bit in itself is incredibly insightful. But some of these people on Mark's site will totally miss that while they are busy being offended.
My previous attempt at a reply seems to have vanished into the interwebs. My apologies if this shows up twice.
How popular are Terry's books in Asian countries?
I used Google and only found a double handful of covers.
An ebook publisher in Taiwan seems to have published at least five if not eight books, all of which are Watch novels.
He said he had published Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, and Jingo, and there were plans to publish The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! and Snuff. Other publishers had done Sourcery, Pyramids, Eric, and Guards Guards in paper. I also found cover images for TCoM, TLF, ER, and Mort.
I found covers for TCoM in Japanese and Korean.
That's a total of what, fifteen? All of which were within the last five years, I believe.
If you have better data, I'd love to see it.
How popular are Terry's books in Asian countries?
I used Google and only found a double handful of covers.
An ebook publisher in Taiwan seems to have published at least five if not eight books, all of which are Watch novels.
He said he had published Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, and Jingo, and there were plans to publish The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! and Snuff. Other publishers had done Sourcery, Pyramids, Eric, and Guards Guards in paper. I also found cover images for TCoM, TLF, ER, and Mort.
I found covers for TCoM in Japanese and Korean.
That's a total of what, fifteen? All of which were within the last five years, I believe.
If you have better data, I'd love to see it.
Colin Smythe, Terry's agent, used to have a site showing where all the books were available along with pictures of the covers. This site is no longer available as far as I can tell. But there were certainly publications in China, Korea and Taiwan. I don't know offhand what books are available and where they are available. It would be nice to still have access to a database of DW covers from forn parts.