Changing readery

More amendments, it's a fluid list, ok?

#83 was to read all of Warming Up. I'm not going to do this. I love Richard Herring to bits, but I find him a little obnoxious in his blog, because of the nature of bloggage. I received his book, Bye Bye Balham, for Christmas and the added context makes it far more palatable. I'll keep up with the new ones, and catch up as he publishes the old ones - it'll always be the same amount to catch up whenever I do it.

So that's gone. I have instead put in its place that I am to read Terry Pratchett's Mort. I've been happily oblivious to Terry Pratchett, lumping him in with the LOTR tedium. But having fallen utterly in love with the work of Jasper Fforde (it's his birthday on Sunday you know) I've had to reassess the potential enjoyment of Discworld. Apparently they all, bar one, feature Death in some way, and the following paragraph from Wiki has made my head go all cold:

As dictated by tradition, he [Death] is a seven-foot-tall skeleton with a black robe and a scythe who sits astride a pale horse (called Binky). He Talks like this, as he IS a skeleton and therefore makes the distinct sound due to talking with no vocal chords and projecting the words right into the heads of those who do (or sometimes, do not) hear him.

Shudder. No *s, that's a real shudder. And my head has gone cold, that's not a peculiar metaphor. To read, my type of therapy, to address irrational fears.

Once I've read Mort, if I don't actually die of fright, I shall decide upon the rest: whether Discworld are more Jasper, or a LOTR mindset J.R.R.

Lordie. To be a successful sci-fi (is it sci-fi? or is it fantasy? what's the difference?) writer you must clearly have a name that starts with J. There's them and old J.K.

Like Jouglas Adams, Jarthur C Clarke and JS Lewis. Maybe it's not all about the initial.