PeterchuMC
PeterchuMC t1_je6aufz wrote
Reply to When do you consider a book 'read'? by Penrod_Pooch
Personally, I consider a book fully read when I've read all of it. But I've also abandoned a few books partway through and I still consider those read but enough to realise that I don't like it.
PeterchuMC t1_je0ms20 wrote
Whenever I read Discworld, I always picture Vetinari as Roger Delgado.
PeterchuMC t1_je0mo30 wrote
Reply to Memoirs - yes or no? by the_akhilarya
Personally, I only read biographies about or by people I'm interested in. For instance, I've read Who on Earth is Tom Baker? and A Life With Footnotes(about Terry Pratchett), both of which were interesting.
PeterchuMC t1_je0m84x wrote
Reply to London book shop recommendations? by 3rd-eye-blind
Forbidden Planet is good for sci-fi and fantasy books. I'm mainly there for Doctor Who of which there is plenty.
PeterchuMC t1_jdv230f wrote
Reply to Cancelled books? by FaithlessnessOdd9006
One infamous one in Doctor Who is Campaign. It was a book that was commissioned by BBC Books on the basis of a synopsis however Jim Mortimore veered wildly off the synopsis which resulted in the book being cancelled. The download that I've linked even includes a section at the end that explains how the book was written and why it wasn't accepted. Just bear in mind that it was written by Mortimore so we can't say that his view of events is what happened.
It's a very weird book, the basic concept was the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan meet Alexander the Great but are scattered throughout time and have to find each other. Given the reason for cancellation, the book as written is not that.
PeterchuMC t1_jdk026v wrote
The way I fell in love with reading must have been back in primary school, I stuck to the same few books until I discovered Doctor Who and realised that Doctor Who books existed. That is almost certainly why I'm such a bibliophile today and most of my collection remains Doctor Who books. Basically, I found a genre/series that I was interested in and that allowed me to branch out into all kinds of books. I'm still mainly fantasy and sci-fi but I did recently read 1984.
PeterchuMC t1_jdjz3qp wrote
Reply to As a newbie to sci-fi, reading complicated sci-fi is making my brain hurt, but it's also really enjoyable. by justkeepbreathing94
Sounds like I need to check out Pathfinder. I've been reading Doctor Who and Faction Paradox which do have their fair share of complicated plotlines and time manipulation. Other pieces of media, that squeezed my brain include Legion(TV) and Control(Game), albeit in different ways.
PeterchuMC t1_jdjy0xy wrote
Reply to There is no logical reason to exclude people of different races in a fictional universe that features dragons and magic by ToeNo5165
>Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because -- what with trolls and dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
There's always at least one quote from Discworld for every situation.
PeterchuMC t1_jdjxrpg wrote
I've learnt so many terms or rather figured out what they meant by taking the context. But if there was a term that I genuinely couldn't understand, I would look it up. Noosphere was one of them.
PeterchuMC t1_jcu65im wrote
Reply to Do you ever look up the authors you're reading to get to know them better? by justkeepbreathing94
I don't really do that as it can result in people like Gareth Roberts. On the other hand it can result in people like Terry Pratchett.
PeterchuMC t1_jctuecu wrote
Would The Doctor be cheating? If it were, Samuel Vimes.
PeterchuMC t1_je727kt wrote
Reply to Do you guys create monthly tbr’s? by thegayboy__
I've just got a pile that I put newly bought books onto. If it's an especially interesting book, it goes right next to my bed, to be read after the current one.