Susan Hated Literature

Author: Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780552154901 DDC: 823.914
A Discworld novel.
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They lay in the dark, guarding. There was no way of measuring the passage of time, not any inclination to measure it.

We first met Moist Von Lipwig back in Going Postal, now, with the Post Office running successfully Ankh-Morpork’s beloved tyrant Vetinari has another role in mind for our con-man gone straight. What would suit him better than taking over one of the city’s ailing banks. Afterall a city needs money and investment in order to grow and prosper.

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Dir: Kevin Lima
Writ: Bill Kelly

• Amy Adams … Giselle
• James Marsden … Prince Edward
• Idina Menzel … Nancy Tremaine
• Susan Sarandon … Queen Narissa
• Patrick Dempsey … Robert Philip
• Timothy Spall … Nathaniel
• Rachel Covey … Morgan Philip
• Julie Andrews … Narrator

Enchanted is the story of Giselle, who meets her true love, Prince Edward after he rescues her from a troll. Or maybe an ogre. But before they seal their relationship with true-loves-kiss, and get married, Giselle is sent spinning out of her world. And into ours, a place where endings are never happy ever after.

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Dir: Kevin Smith
Writ: Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas

• Bret Harrison - Sam Oliver
• Tyler Labine - Bert ‘Sock’ Wysocki
• Missy Peregrym - Andi
• Ray Wise … The Devil
• Allison Hossack - Mrs. Oliver
• Andrew Airlie - Mr. Oliver

Yet another pre-air show has escaped onto the wilds of d’internet. Isn’t modern technology a wonderful thing? Right, on with the recap. We open with Sam on his birthday. He is 21 today, but his parents seem a little off, odd would be a good term^[1] His brother Kyle is more normal in his response, the usual brother banter goes on. Sam, at first distracted by a news story about an arsonist on the news, retaliates by asking, ever so innocently about a letter from Stanford. It turns out that Kyle had applied, and didn’t get in. His parents are a little upset at this, something that Kyle can’t quite understand and protests that Sam never went to college. His mother however disagrees, Sam did go to college, for a whole month, it just made him sleepy so he came home. They are both very proud of him.

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Created/Writer: Chris Fedak & Josh Schwartz
Dir: McG

1. Zachary Levi … Chuck Bartowski
2. Adam Baldwin … John Casey
3. Yvonne Strzechowski … Sarah Kent
4. Joshua Gomez … Morgan
5. Sarah Lancaster … Ellie Bartowski
6. Ryan McPartlin … Captain Awesome
7. Don Abernathy … Traveler

So having been alerted to the fact that pre-air tv programmes have slipped through onto the wonder that is the internet, and, having heard that Adam Baldwin was in this one, how could I not dl it for a gander? You can see the trailer on the NBC site, and there will be spoilers if you read on.

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Author: Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099468042
823.912
See also: Library Thing ; Wikipedia entry

“Do not, I beg of you, my lord, say more!” uttered Miss Milbourse, in imploring accents, slightly averting her lovely countenance, and clasping both hands at her bosom.

This may be my favourite Heyer so far. It has all the usual ingredients, romance, melodrama, along with a great deal of humour. Most of her books do have some, but this had me laughing more than any other. Plus the characters were great. Hero, or Kitten really isn’t much of a hero at all but she is so good-humoured that no matter the scrapes she ends up in you can’t help but like her. And Sherry is just as bad. And as entertaining and likeable.

The collection of friends are great fun too.

And as usual the book is a page-turner, you won’t want to stop once you’ve started reading it.

A Discworld novel
Author: Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552152676
DDC: 823.914
See also: LibraryThing ; Lspace wiki ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; One More Chapter

Thud…
That was the sound the heavy club made as it connected with the head. The body jerked, and slumped back.
And it was done, unheard, unseen: the perfect end, a perfect solution, a perfect story.
But, as the dwarfs say, where there is trouble you will always find a troll.
The troll saw.

Relations between dwarfs and trolls have never been all that great, but, with the death of an influential dwarf community leader it seems that things are beginning to escalate. Koom Valley may have been a battle a long time ago, but if Commander Vimes doesn’t manage to figure out who killed Grag Hamcrusher then it may just be re-enacted on the streets of Ankh-Morpork.

Vimes and the Watch have always been my favourite Discworld books, and this is a great addition to the series. You have all the usual humour, footnotes and all. But you also have the deeper meanings and social commentary that you can chose to ignore if you want.

What is really fantastic about the Discworld books however is the characters, and here Vimes is at his cynical weary best, although also concerned with ensuring he is home every day at 6 o’clock exactly, in order to read his son Where’s my cow?. All the usual Watch members are back, as well as some new recruits, notably Sally the new vampire on the force.

If I didn’t have a huge stack of books that I want to get through I’d've flicked back to the first page and started reading this all over again. Great book