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The Turtle Moves
Dec. 11th, 2021 10:51 amA few years ago a friend of mine was cleaning out her shelves and I wound up with her copy of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs’ The Discworld Companion, the “updated” version published in 1997 and therefore covering only the first twenty books in the series or so. I picked it up this week largely out of the desire to move it off my TBR shelf and onto the read shelf with all the other Discworld books. (This should tell you what kind of mood I’ve been in lately.)
Despite now being somewhat out of date, it’s still a delightful tour through Discworld, with some new tidbits of information but mostly it just makes a nice trip down memory lane about reading the first 20 Discworld books. It is almost 500 pages long, which seems large until you remember that it’s still a lot faster to read than rereading 20 Discworld books would be. That it makes me want to reread all however-many-there-are-now Discworld books immediately is probably an unintended side effect.
If you have not read Discworld I believe it would probably be quite baffling to read–I cannot imagine why you would even do so in the first place if you weren’t already a fan–but perhaps if the humor resonated it would pique your interest. I don’t know, my initial interest in Discworld was piqued by reading goofy crossover fanfiction back in the graceless days of the early 2000s.
Is there a name for Discworld fandom or its members? Are we just “Discworld fans”? If we don’t have a name, can we go with “Turtle Movement”?
Despite now being somewhat out of date, it’s still a delightful tour through Discworld, with some new tidbits of information but mostly it just makes a nice trip down memory lane about reading the first 20 Discworld books. It is almost 500 pages long, which seems large until you remember that it’s still a lot faster to read than rereading 20 Discworld books would be. That it makes me want to reread all however-many-there-are-now Discworld books immediately is probably an unintended side effect.
If you have not read Discworld I believe it would probably be quite baffling to read–I cannot imagine why you would even do so in the first place if you weren’t already a fan–but perhaps if the humor resonated it would pique your interest. I don’t know, my initial interest in Discworld was piqued by reading goofy crossover fanfiction back in the graceless days of the early 2000s.
Is there a name for Discworld fandom or its members? Are we just “Discworld fans”? If we don’t have a name, can we go with “Turtle Movement”?