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edenfallingI got my copy of Going Postal today! And read it. All of it.
I love Terry Pratchett. He is god. Or a god, anyway.
It's not as good as Night Watch or Soul Music, my two personal Discworld favorites, but those are damn hard to live up to, and basically everything Pterry writes is at least better than good anyway. What I think, mostly, is that it's a little unfocussed, as if he was trying to fit five ideas into a story when really four would have worked better.
This should tell you something -- with a lot of authors, you're lucky if they get ONE interesting idea in a book.
Right. Am off to fight my computer some more. I think either my mouse is dying, or the internal thingy that interfaces with the mouse is going insane; in any case, it keeps moving oddly and freezing at inopportune moments. And there are limits to what I can do with keystroke commands alone.
I really need to get the blasted thing examined. But then I tell myself, I'm planning to get a laptop for Christmas (yes, I'm mooching off my relatives' goodwill), so what's the point of fixing up this monster for another three months?
I may actually break down and get a new mouse, though. That's not too hideously expensive.
I love Terry Pratchett. He is god. Or a god, anyway.
It's not as good as Night Watch or Soul Music, my two personal Discworld favorites, but those are damn hard to live up to, and basically everything Pterry writes is at least better than good anyway. What I think, mostly, is that it's a little unfocussed, as if he was trying to fit five ideas into a story when really four would have worked better.
This should tell you something -- with a lot of authors, you're lucky if they get ONE interesting idea in a book.
Right. Am off to fight my computer some more. I think either my mouse is dying, or the internal thingy that interfaces with the mouse is going insane; in any case, it keeps moving oddly and freezing at inopportune moments. And there are limits to what I can do with keystroke commands alone.
I really need to get the blasted thing examined. But then I tell myself, I'm planning to get a laptop for Christmas (yes, I'm mooching off my relatives' goodwill), so what's the point of fixing up this monster for another three months?
I may actually break down and get a new mouse, though. That's not too hideously expensive.
