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im currently halfway through Men At Arms (im in my hyperlexic book/ Terry Pratchett nerd era) and i just wanna say how does this man keep writing so well all the damn time????? Like. Can he even write a bad book??? I don't think so
Too Sweat by Hozier is literally Angua at Carrot.
I was readi Men of Arms today, the song stuck in my head. I got to one of their scenes together. And it made sense.
i forgot to put this here
i finished Men at Arms. Holy fucking hell, man.
The gun?? Leonard da Quirm (i think that's his name in Eng)??? Everything????
Im just gonna put a few quotes here, scroll if you don't want them
"I almost became just like him" "No sir. You put it down"
"If you /have/ to be on the wrong side if the arrow, pray that the one holding it is evil... A good man will kill you without a word" (plus this tying back to Carrot?????)
"Dogs were also meaner then wolves. Another thing they got from humans"
Not typing the whole thing, but Vimes' boot theory of socioeconomic injustice
"It's better to light a candle then to curse the dark" and latter on "Better to light a flamethrower then to curse the dark"
I apologise if it isn't exactly a quote, again im bot reading in English, feel free to correct me
No because Gaspod was an absolute ICON. He IS The Character and deserves more recognition
I mean, come on:
Traumatic and dark past
Sarcastic and snarky while still being funny
Cares about people more then he'll admit
His height 📉 his ego 📈
He is LITERALLY The Wonder Dog
Chosen multiple times by Fate (or whoever chose him to be in Moving Pictures and M@A)
Saved the world and presumed dead by the first people to care about him
Values his freedom over a home (end of M@A, Carrot and Vetinari get him a home and a family with kids, but he runs away)
Similar to Vimes, he knows every part of Ankh-Morpok by smell
At the end of the day, he doesn't want to go save people, but SOMEONE has to
Omg I love Death, he seems like a sweetheart (wow this makes me sound deranged)
“It was said later that he came under bad influences at this stage. But the secret of the history of Edward d’Eath was that he came under no outside influences at all, unless you count all those dead kings. He just came under the influence of himself.
That’s where people get it wrong. Individuals aren’t naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are... well... human beings.”
-Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Klatchian coffee has an even bigger sobering effect than an unexpected brown envelope from the tax man. In fact, coffee enthusiasts take the precaution of getting thoroughly drunk before touching the stuff, because Klatchian coffee takes you back through sobriety and, if you're not careful, out the other side, where the mind of man should not go. The Watch was generally of the opinion that Samuel Vimes was at least two drinks under par, and needed a stiff double even to be sober.
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
Men at Arms; Terry Pratchett
For the first time she saw its eyes. They were red, and mad as hell. Anything with eyes like that could kill anything it wanted, because madness, true madness, can drive a fist through a plank.
Men at Arms; Terry Pratchett
BACKPEDALING TO CATCH UP ON THE BOOKS I MISSED BRING US TOOOO ~~
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