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This book is the last Discworld book I read for the first time ever. I did these all out of order, and very nearly backwards and upside down. Every single character has been so vivid and tremendously magically real. And just so with this one. How ver
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"wild that this was the last Discword book I read in my initial read. it's SUCH a Discworld novel. we lost so much when we lost Terry 11 years ago..." — May 22, 2026 01:02PM
"wild that this was the last Discword book I read in my initial read. it's SUCH a Discworld novel. we lost so much when we lost Terry 11 years ago..." — May 22, 2026 01:02PM
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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
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― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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