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[telophase]

Part of what I did today when I got out of work early (they tossed all nonessential personnel off campus due to needing the parking for the football game tonight) was to go by the bookstore, since Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith is out. I also caught theferrett's review of what has the potential to be the most totally awesome book evar, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. This sounds like it'll be great poolside reading on the CRUISE I AM GOING ON THAT YOU ARE NOT.

Oh yeah, and got the next book of Bleach.


Mello hates cruises, which why I didn't invite him, but he also hates not being invited places.

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[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

I have to smile about your school needing parking for a football game. That's great that the team is having such a good year.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I grew up in College Station. I understand the complexities of parking for football games. :D

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, tell me about it. It's just so unusual for your current employer to have that problem. But hey, if they let you leave early because of it - who's complaining? How is the game going, btw?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We lost to BYU 31-17, the end of the 13-game winning streak.

And I actually had to go look that up, since I had no idea who'd won or lost. XD

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of being at FSU - we were over a mile and a half from the stadium, and if I left the dorm within two hours of the game, I might as well not come back until an hour after the game was over, because it would take that long to have a parking spot anywhere close to the dorm.

Have fun on the cruise!

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

haha i was at a book reading last night and the author was asked what he was reading, and he totally said he read world war z

[taer-silveroak.livejournal.com]

Mello hates theferrett.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, duh.

[taer-silveroak.livejournal.com]

;)

[chisotahn]

Wintersmith is out?! YAY!

... is it sad that I'm more excited because now it's out, so Terry Pratchett can start working on the next book, which is the one I'm REALLY excited about? >>; Moist von Lipwig ftw~

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

But how will you be able to read after you suffer from Death By Stingray??

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Death by Stingray is scheduled for the latter half of the week, so I just have to finish it in the first few days.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Technically, I'd expect that he'd have started working on that already, since the book gets turned in a few weeks to a few months before it's published. XD

But you can start the countdown now. :)

[kate_nepveu]

Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith is out

OMG!!!

(And what's this about a new Moist von Lipwig book?)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

(I've heard it a couple of places: I'm assuming it means that the next Discworld book will star Moist von Lipwig. :D Not that you couldn't have figured that out on your own. I've also seen one vague reference by someone to the Royal Mint, so presumably he's doing something with the Ankh-Morpork currency?)

[kate_nepveu]

Well, there was the ending of _Going Postal_, but I didn't take that as a promise of a book about it, you know?

Ah. AFP's FAQ is so old that it still lists _The Night Watch_ as forthcoming, but Wikipedia comes to the rescue: _Making Money_ was announced at the 2006 Discworld Con.

That's . . . interesting. I really liked _Going Postal_, but my immediate reaction is "err, that's awfully close to the last book about Moist, isn't it?" But I trust Pratchett.

Meanwhile, _Wintersmith_! I've been salivating for it for 2 years, since he read from it at Noreascon 4 and the room spontaneously burst into applause at an evil cliffhanger, prompting him to not read the other excerpt he'd planned to.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That was more-or-less my reaction, too. But even when Pratchett is at his most rote, I still enjoy reading him so I know I'll like it a lot: it'll be a matter of whether I like it or love it.

BTW, the CD of Wintersmith is read by Stephen Briggs, and I'm hoping that's the version that goes up on audible.com.

[kate_nepveu]

They don't seem to be getting the abridged versions of Pratchett's novels, and since Briggs is the only one reading the unabridged these days, I think they will.

(BTW: would you be interested in Briggs' reading of the Bromeliad? I, cough, happen to be able to put my hands those . . . )

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yay!

(Ooh, yes, yes I would... :)

[kate_nepveu]

E-mail me a mailing address, then, and I'll send you a disc. (Anything else you want while I'm at it?)

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Cruise? You're going on a cruise?

Muchly with the Kewlness!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup! 7-day cruise with several other friends leaving out of Galveston, with stops at Motego Bay, the Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. Oct 29-Nov 5. I'm a bit askance at the whole cruise culture, but as my friends pointed out, it's a luxury hotel that takes you from cool thing to cool thing. Thinking about it that way, it makes sense. :D

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

*bogglement*

You may well be booked on THE SAME SHIP as my Ex and #1 Son!

I mean, what are the chances of THAT?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh - although large, not quite as large as you might think, since we picked this week because it was right at the end of hurricane season so unlikely to be interrupted by storms, but right before the fall cruise season starts, so that it still had hurricane-season prices.