h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK own up......who's laughed out loud on a bus/train/plane when reading a discworld book? I have and have sat next to people who have done the same.

Thank god for Terry Pratchett!

It happens to me all the time! From time to time, someone will look at what I'm reading, and say 'Oh, isn't Terry Pratchett great?!'. Of course, what usually happens is the person sitting next to me gives me an odd look and quickly moves to another seat...

When I saw the title for this thread and thought "these terms are generally synonomous". That should tell you far too much about my vocubulary. Pratchett's by far my fave author and I haven't laughed out loud at the books on plane, train or bus but I have in a car and several times at school. Brilliant the DW books are, but of course you all alreday knew that.

I have got to say that there are very few books that can make me laugh out loud. The discworld books are the few that can

but i can never read on a train or bus as it makes me feel ill
(i get mottion sikness easy you see)

I used to get that, awful, isn't it? If y-no. I won't give any advice because I might be wrong and..yeah. You get the idea.

I used to get that, awful, isn't it? If y-no. I won't give any advice because I might be wrong and..yeah. You get the idea. Sorry to hear about that then.

Sorry for that too, I didn't mean to post twice.

~grin~... no worries... me gets motion sickness as well... not very nice tis it... and worth mentioning a ciuple of times just to get your point across... ~wink~

Greebs..xx

Lol, thanks Greebo.

As me said no worries... ~grin~ and please call me Greebs... Greebo makes me sound like an old maiden aunt... or something... ~Greebo frowns~ hmmm... do you have an old maiden aunt called Greebo???

Greebs..xx

No, but Nanny Ogg's cat's called Greebo, Greebs.

Have you tried travel bands for the sickness.
You need to do something, to have to go through life NOT reading on the bus, train, plane. That's awful!

My mum's got some of those, the first time I tried one on I wore it like a watch with the lump on the outside on top fo my wrist. I *did* feel less ill though...
A placebo effect there I think.

I just reread Pyramids,I didn't like it at first, but I read early.I couldn't keep myself from laughing now that I've got Terrys wit. Sometimes he's alot better the more times you read.

Yeah. Then again, his work's still *brilliant* whenever. Of course with rereading you often get more of the jokes and if you've read other Discworld books in between some more of the characters' origions. If you've read the Watch books and Moving Pictures then you'll know what I mean quite accutely.

Half the fun is in the developement. 2/3 of the fun is in the whole twisted logic thing. Ande the way he grabs onrdinary concepts, and gives them a 90 degree twist.

More of a Moebius twist, I would have thought...