2 posts tagged “rincewind”
By average Discworld novel, I mean one that is entertaining. Thus, above average means very (if not extremely) entertaining. From what I can remember of Night Watch, it is one that sets the standard for what is a top-notch Discworld novel.
Oh, and I saw The Shawshank Redemption again yesterday. It's a bloody brilliant movie. If you haven't seen it already, drop what you're doing and see it immediately.
Finished Icehenge last night. It's an old Robinson novel from 1984. The story unfolds through three different journals, the first written by a miner and eyewitness to one of the central events, the second by an archaeologist who researches the events told of in the first journal, the third by a historian who disputes the theories published by the archaeologist. When people in live for more than 500 years, with no increase in memory capacity, and the government is a semi-totalitarian regime, the past, on both the individual and universal levels, can easily be distorted. Icehenge illustrates this by creating a constant sense of reality (and KSR is good at realism), which forces you to re-evaluate what seemed real in the last chapter. A good book, and a must-read for any Kim Stanley Robinson fan.
Next up is Pratchett's Interesting Times. Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian seem to be two of the main characters.
