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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Jeg overvejer Terry Pratchett som det næste, jeg skal bare lige finde ud af, hvor jeg skal starte, nogen forslag?

    Jeg synes der er stor forskel på tidlig Pratchett og sen Pratchett. De tidlige bøger er klassiske og tydelig satire over fantasygenren, men er ikke så medrivende på personsiden, synes jeg. Historierne er bedre i de senere bøger, og hans Tiffany Aching-serie er decideret glimrende som børne-ungdomslitteratur. Så det kommer nok lidt an på hvad du leder efter.

    Rent kvalitetsmæssigt vil jeg rate de forskellige story-archs sådan her:

    • Tiffany Aching (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, og The Shepherd’s Crown)
    • Moist von Lipwig (Going Postal, Making Money, Raising Steam)
    • City Watch (Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch , Thud! og Snuff)
    • Witches (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum)
    • Death (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather, Thief of Time)
    • Rincewind (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery)

    Men - der er også en point i, at man i de første bøger får en masse worldbuilding som de senere bøger så bygger på. Så selvom jeg personligt synes Rincewind-archen er den svageste rent litterært, så er der også en værdi i at læse bøgerne i den rækkefølge de er skrevet.

    Du kan også følge nogle af de forskellige online-guides:




  • Hi :)

    So the first coin is definitely not Roman - but I am not certain what it is, as it’s not my specialty. I think it’s an indian coin from the Mughal empire. Weight and diameter, both to .1 digits, would make it easier to get closer. That would technically make it a modern coin, although it is of course still quite old. Think 15-th 16th century. But similar coins were also struck up until the 19th century.

    The second coin is in a little bit too bad of a shape for me to really recognize. I think it’s unlikely that it’s Roman, but if it is I’d guess the byzantine empire from around the 6th century, as it looks vaguely like the crude coins struck by the caliphate after they conquered the levant from the Byzantines.