^American Gods is good, but I though the idea was better than the execution. I don't think Gaiman managed to communicate everything what was on his mind that well when he wrote it and the story lacks direction, I think. It has a B movie feel to it, I think .. and it's 90s cheesy as hell, but that's what you want from Gaiman.

Still a good book and well worth a read, but I wouldn't rate it among my favourites.

I'm reading the latest Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals.

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It's about football and the story revolves around the Unseen University.

What's sad about Terry Pratchett is that a while ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease. This book is dedicated to Rob Wilkins who, it says, typed most of it so I think he might be getting help writing his books nowadays. :(

Hopefully, he'll manage to keep it up though. I love that man.

^ That's sadd about him getting diagnosed with Alzheimers, I hadn't heard about that.

Have you read The Wee Free Men?

Several times ;)

I've read all his books (or will have once I'm done with his latest), most of them more than once .. In other words, I'm a dedicated fan.

Which one is your favorite? I've only read The Wee Free Men and Thud (unless I'm forgetting one) and those were quite a while ago so I don't remember very well. Maybe I should read some more by him

My favourite from him is Night Watch :)

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Although all Discworld books except the two first stand well on their own, events in one book do carry over in the next. Different books are about different people and Night Watch is, of course, about the City Watch with the main character being commander Samuel Vimes. As such, it may be a more rewarding read to if you start earlier in the City Watch chronology before you tackle Night Watch which is fairly late, Thud! being the only watch book after it.

• Guards! Guards!
• Men at Arms
• Feet of Clay
• Jingo
• The Fifth Elephant
• Night Watch
• Thud!

These are the books that are about the Watch. Guards! Guards! is okay, but they get really good with Men at Arms. Men at Arms, Feet of Clay and Jingo are all brilliant, I think, then The Fifth Elephant is also good and Night Watch is the best! Thud! pales in comparison.

So, if you want, you can just read Night Watch - or - you could start with Guards! Guards! or Men at Arms and read your way up to it which will be more rewarding, but of course you'd have to get your hands on the books. :p:

There you go children, listen to the nice Norwegian man.

Kurt Vonnegut - Deadeye Dick

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My personal favourite Vonnegut book. It was the only one my dad didn't donate to charity, yes I use to have almost every Vonnegut book he ever wrote, almost all original prints and my dad donated them to charity without even asking me.

How rude. This is my second of his. I plan to read more.

That just sounded a lot more creepy than anything Tore said.