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Ohhhh they're GAY. And this is AIDS? They be fucking in the baths. I don't have this kind of vocabulary.

Started listening to this immediately after the first one. The heat wave here has made it hard for me to do almost anything, including using my eyes, so I read with my ears. 😛🙉

Oh boy I'm so confused. My Spanish comprehension is so low. WHAT GENDER IS THE NARRATOR? Mens hot baths? But I thought woman? Naked? I don't knowww 😭

Ok I'm reading this in Spanish, attempting to translate without any thinking/looking up words, then comparing with the English.

So far I've learnt the word for aquarium, everything makes the first paragraph make more sense when you know that word.

6: "forehead was striking low..."
Sort of giving neanderthal vibes here

"'Phillip Phillippovich!' Phillip Phillippovich cried irritably"
I guess this makes more sense in Russian? Who says their own name as exclamation?

"Ar-es-ef-es-ar"
RSFSR Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the largest and most populous constituent republic of the soviet union

Noooo the library want it back ): just as I'm about to go on holibobs as well

5: his testes?? I hadn't picked that up in the surgery scene
what is camphor what is alimentation and why'd they enema my boys butt???

Hell yeah the dog knows bourgeois when he sees it
"He has completely accepted the trousers. Spoke a long gay phrase: "let's have a smoke, or I'll give you a poke.""

Also this is starting to feel like a sci-fi book, also Jekyll and Hyde but I can't put my finger on why

What is pood

3:
"something resembling a tiny dark loaf of bread" what is this

"Hapless cardboard duck which hung upside down next to the cupboard" also what

"Six-legs" to refer to a dog out with its owner is good

"Photograph with an Easter rose hung over it" what is that

4:
"Little white lump dangled on a thread" what this

"A cigarette Zina, at once. Fresh underwear, and a bath." Honestly... Hell yeah that is a vibe.

1: what is french love? "You may be sure he will not take her in some ordinary way, no, he'll insist on French love."
"She has female trouble from that French love of his"

"Follow you? Why to the end of the world. You may kick me with your fine suede shoes, I wouldn't say a word"

2: why is the visitors head green and tobacco-brown? And baby pink wrinkly skin? I can't work out what he's seeing the doctor about.

I think this might be the first time I've thought one of the discworld books was dragging

Wait if this one is about Australia (but not) I hope they mention Captain Cook (but not). That would be very cool because I'm literally travelling across the UK to go learn stuff about captain cook right now.

Reading this in the Foyles café with a flat white. I think this is what it feels like to be a performative male. I'm so sensitive and smart and different to all the other guys wow.

But actually I am dumb, so many words I don't know. Who is Euripides? You rip these? What the hell is bacchantes?

Is this a journey to the center of the earth reference? A magical storm in a huge cave under the sea/earth? 😛

Ladies and gentlemen. I did it

Ladies and gentlemen. I did it

I've stolen Alex's copy. I've got one hour on the train, I'm about to speed run this shit

I managed to finish the introduction!! YIPPEE
The first line of the first chapter includes Arthur James Balfour. BALFOUR DECLARATION HERE WE COME. I LOVE GCSE HISTORY, 100 YEARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 1912 - 2012!!

So far I feel like he's said nuanced and many factors involved, not one distinct thing. But he's said it with a bajillion words and a million complex sentences. But I like it

this is like word soup to me

Finally gay had been mentioned

Aldeburgh mentioned!!! fish n chips please

All of these mentally ill men and NONE of them are gay??

One more week fellas then I'm free

Who guards the guards? Who watches the Watchmen?

I really hope there will be some police golems in the watch MAKE IT HAPPEN TERRY

Corporal Carrot needs to get bitch slapped so he learns that women can handle themselves

Oh hell yeah this one is guy Fawkes themed

We're so back boys. Finally got the next audiobook from the library. Nigel Plainer I love you.

YES!!! YES!!!