Fifth or seventh time thru.... Glorious, just glorious! Another chuckle, an outright laugh, thru sometimes glistening eyes .... Not many stories bring such peace and joy...thanks. again
I wouldn't, but it's a matter of taste. I suspect part of me would forever cheer on the Feegles, hand Vimes a cigar when he got scowly or tut-tut at him so Sybil wouldn't have to, bring a banana to the Librarian in exchange for safe passage through Unseen U's notorious library, and buy Rincewind a baked potato.
The only other author I feel does this the same way is Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series - where somehow even just a short sentence... FITS perfectly and makes you chuckle and also think!
The only author who does the same thing was Douglas Adams and his "Hitchhickers Guitar to the Galaxy" series (and the Dirk Gently series to a slightly lesser degree) No other author have I ever seen whose ever single word, sentence, and paragraph fits perfectly, with hilarity and intellect building ever onwards and upwards.
I was at school with a girl like Annagramma. Every year of the 12 years I was at that school. Each year her name was different but it was the same girl...
When I was a teen, I asked our pastor's wife (who had known my mom when she was a teen), 'What is it like to be a minister's wife?' She smiled a little and said, 'Every church has the same sorts of people, and most of them expect certain things out of a minister's wife, but not all the same things. You can't meet their expectations, so you meet your own as best as you know how.' I took away forever the idea that pleasing others wasn't as important as meeting her own expectations . I didn't become a minister's wife, but her words and intent were immortal.
I like goats, because they have a twisted sense of humor. Bees are wonderful; if you encounter one, do greet her and ask after her queen. If you've a special secret, you can tell a bee. They collect information, don't tell, and they'll respect you; you'll hardly ever get stung. And they really know how to dance!
6:36:54 this is what I think god would have to feel like if it existed, experiencing actual infinity. Enough time to go entirely insane, then recover, then go insane again, just from the passage of infinite time. Enough to go from benevolent to genocidal to riven with guilt and all over again until it doesn’t know the difference. Creating and destroying universes again and again, for eternity, then fed up for eternity doing nothing, then again fed up with this repeating the cycle. Infinity, omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence- such being could only be insane.
Thankfully there are no gods, goddesses, jinn, demons, angels, faeries, ogres, cyclopes, or any number of other things which people made up when they had no functional ways to seek the facts behind the various phenomena we see day to day. It puts a lot of weight on humans like us to find our own meaning, and to motivate ourselves to be moral and peaceful beings without the fairy tale of getting forever ice cream if you're good and spending eternity in an oven if you have the "wrong' beliefs.
Only if it only has something like the limited brain capacity we do First you must imagine a stick and rock This is us Now imagine a supercomputer At least that amount of difference at independent memory and computing skill
@ no . The thing that you need to imagine first is the thing that is impossible to imagine- the infinity. The horror of it. Imagine the knowledge that ‘this will never end’ . And however many times you manage to change the ‘this’ that you are living, it just becomes subsumed into the infinite, and sooner or later you will have done it all and it will all become just another part of an infinite cycle. And if blessedly you learn to forget, that too is a part of a cycle because you have an infinity to work with so eventually you will learn to remember again. Because infinity means inevitably. Of everything. A rock has an end, even if it doesn’t seem to. The supercomputer even more so. A sentient being without end- that is true horror.
Also, contemplating on hearing this read aloud: The hat, the jewelry, the dress - they tell people what you want to be. They can't tell you what you are. That's up to you. (Goes for non witches too.
@@blixten2928 we do, I would often steam like a kettle when shedding my windproof layer and exposing my damp woollens after a cross country skiing session.
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I went entirely sane once.... then decided that insanity was way more fun. God.... if even remotely logically evident, took no part in the process. I then read some more Terry Pratchett and stayed nuts. I enjoyed that. Having lost the entirely loopy Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy fame, and now his royal Pratchetness, I am lost and distraught. It is now several years since his departure from the Disc. I'm off on a quest to find Rincewind and hopefully avoid DEATH with him!
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Fifth or seventh time thru....
Glorious, just glorious!
Another chuckle, an outright laugh, thru sometimes glistening eyes ....
Not many stories bring such peace and joy...thanks. again
And wisdom!
This is one of the best quality discworld audiobooks on YT.
His reading is very nearly impeccable. I admire that.
Terry Prachet books are wonderful, funny & so much fun, who wouldn’t want to live in/on Disc World👌❤️🤪
I don’t think I would
Seems unsafe
I wouldn't, but it's a matter of taste. I suspect part of me would forever cheer on the Feegles, hand Vimes a cigar when he got scowly or tut-tut at him so Sybil wouldn't have to, bring a banana to the Librarian in exchange for safe passage through Unseen U's notorious library, and buy Rincewind a baked potato.
Oh my gosh this is my favorite comment section ever. Come have tea and talk about books and witchcraft with me
The incredible mileage I've gotten out of "Not afraid of heights, but afraid of depths" is excellent.
Also "I'm not afraid of falls, it's the LANDINGS i'm terrified of!"
Basically every sentence in a discworld novel is worth knowing.
It's true, isn't it? It's the sudden stop at the end that's nasty. Well done promoting thought-provoking ideas!
These books are a VERY GOOD motivation for being a witch. Of some sort.
I love listening just for the splendid writing. The sentences are just so... PERFECT.
Right up there at the very top with Wodehouse.
The only other author I feel does this the same way is Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series - where somehow even just a short sentence... FITS perfectly and makes you chuckle and also think!
The only author who does the same thing was Douglas Adams and his "Hitchhickers Guitar to the Galaxy" series (and the Dirk Gently series to a slightly lesser degree)
No other author have I ever seen whose ever single word, sentence, and paragraph fits perfectly, with hilarity and intellect building ever onwards and upwards.
Fantastic in several ways. A little clover of magic, indeed.
I was at school with a girl like Annagramma. Every year of the 12 years I was at that school. Each year her name was different but it was the same girl...
When I was a teen, I asked our pastor's wife (who had known my mom when she was a teen), 'What is it like to be a minister's wife?'
She smiled a little and said, 'Every church has the same sorts of people, and most of them expect certain things out of a minister's wife, but not all the same things. You can't meet their expectations, so you meet your own as best as you know how.' I took away forever the idea that pleasing others wasn't as important as meeting her own expectations . I didn't become a minister's wife, but her words and intent were immortal.
Brilliantly funny. Thank you.
This is one of the few Discworld books I have on CD. I have listened to it many times, but I couldn't resist listening to it again.
I thing this story was SUCH a necessary learning experience for Tiffany!
Reminds me of Ged's near disaster as a wizard trainee in A Wizard of Earthsea
Stephen Briggs is by miles the best Pratchett narrator. What was Penguin thinking of to "update" the books he narrates?
Oh I agree completely. Stephen Briggs is THE complete cast of characters
Probably had to do a new run to keep the rights, but fully agreed. Tho I do like Planar for the earlier books
Right?!?? I would pay for every one of these if I could.
Nigel planner was great also
Loved Nigel planer
Thanks for the book
I like goats, because they have a twisted sense of humor. Bees are wonderful; if you encounter one, do greet her and ask after her queen. If you've a special secret, you can tell a bee. They collect information, don't tell, and they'll respect you; you'll hardly ever get stung. And they really know how to dance!
6:36:54 this is what I think god would have to feel like if it existed, experiencing actual infinity. Enough time to go entirely insane, then recover, then go insane again, just from the passage of infinite time. Enough to go from benevolent to genocidal to riven with guilt and all over again until it doesn’t know the difference. Creating and destroying universes again and again, for eternity, then fed up for eternity doing nothing, then again fed up with this repeating the cycle. Infinity, omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence- such being could only be insane.
ITS TRUE AND THE REASON I FEEL SORRY FOR GODS, WHATEVER SIZE THEY MIGHT BE!!
Thankfully there are no gods, goddesses, jinn, demons, angels, faeries, ogres, cyclopes, or any number of other things which people made up when they had no functional ways to seek the facts behind the various phenomena we see day to day.
It puts a lot of weight on humans like us to find our own meaning, and to motivate ourselves to be moral and peaceful beings without the fairy tale of getting forever ice cream if you're good and spending eternity in an oven if you have the "wrong' beliefs.
Only if it only has something like the limited brain capacity we do
First you must imagine a stick and rock
This is us
Now imagine a supercomputer
At least that amount of difference at independent memory and computing skill
@ no . The thing that you need to imagine first is the thing that is impossible to imagine- the infinity. The horror of it. Imagine the knowledge that ‘this will never end’ . And however many times you manage to change the ‘this’ that you are living, it just becomes subsumed into the infinite, and sooner or later you will have done it all and it will all become just another part of an infinite cycle. And if blessedly you learn to forget, that too is a part of a cycle because you have an infinity to work with so eventually you will learn to remember again. Because infinity means inevitably. Of everything. A rock has an end, even if it doesn’t seem to. The supercomputer even more so. A sentient being without end- that is true horror.
CRIVVENS!! ~GREAT AS ALWAYS!! THANK YOU!! XX
Nice one Briggs!
Neat, so sad Audible purged their Briggs Discworld Audiobooks, only the mediocre new ones and the abridged Plainer ones are left.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING, SORRY ABOUT CAPS-LOCK BEING STUCK!!
Nigel Planer ❤
6:51:25,the voice of death I recognize from other Terry Pratchett audiobooks. 🎉
Also, contemplating on hearing this read aloud: The hat, the jewelry, the dress - they tell people what you want to be. They can't tell you what you are. That's up to you. (Goes for non witches too.
The internet is a sort of Fahrenheit 451...audio books 📚 is a way of preserving actual books , against growing adult illiteracy ❤
That had just occurred to me recently. I listen to this frequently, but I did read it first.
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I think this is" Wintersmith" not "A hat full of Sky". Anyway it's a great reading😊
Does anyone know the name of the song at the end?
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38:50 ish 😂😂42:25 👐 👐
Whats the Musik at the end called
👐 1:50:16 😂
Nigel planner is the best narrator for the discworld serie
He is very good but this version is by Stephen Briggs whom I consider a cut above Nigel. Truth is there isn't much in it. Both are excellent.
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1:02:13,horses do not steam on hot dry days.
Is this important? Does this knowledge you have inflicted upon us advance the Human Condition?
Good to know! They just sweat, then, like us, in dry heat? I wonder why humans don't ever steam, by the way.
I'm not sure if Pratchett knows that or not but there was "magic happening" in the area at the time
Just a point to your comment; Trolls, Dwarves, Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men, Ankh-Morpork, Disc World; none of it is real.
@@blixten2928 we do, I would often steam like a kettle when shedding my windproof layer and exposing my damp woollens after a cross country skiing session.
Nigel Planner is the greatest narrator and character actor, Stephen Briggs is ok too.
why the heck is there ads ruining a good reading? this is the first Terry Pratchett reading i have heard that has been spoilt this way, bye now.
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They ARE annoying but the book is too good to miss so ... patience 😊
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@@dorissoler1987 it's not bad for a Tiff book.
Thank you
I went entirely sane once.... then decided that insanity was way more fun. God.... if even remotely logically evident, took no part in the process. I then read some more Terry Pratchett and stayed nuts. I enjoyed that.
Having lost the entirely loopy Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy fame, and now his royal Pratchetness, I am lost and distraught.
It is now several years since his departure from the Disc. I'm off on a quest to find Rincewind and hopefully avoid DEATH with him!
@@ikm1964 GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!!~ NO,,REALLY, GOOD LUCK!! XX
Thank you
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