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This is normally my favorite Discworld narrator, but my word these are some aggravating character voices. Except for Nutt, he's a perfect adorable cinnamon roll.

Oh man I am getting The Last Man flashbacks. Girl, you need antibiotics for strep throat!

When has the historian ever finished the translation BEFORE the plot reveals the meaning anyway?

Somebody get these BEGGARS out of here!

I have yet to hear a good reason they shouldn't just fill the Ice Tube with concrete. Maybe it won't cure quickly enough? Or the glass containers are too fragile to handle the weight of the wet concrete? What about expanding polyurethane foam? I feel like there are easier solutions than diverting a volcano.

Despite constantly claiming that they won't be able to do this whole thing without Mac, the military really keep pulling him away from his work to show instead of tell him about problems he can't do anything about.

Oh, Rachel got FIRED from her day job.

Volcano-chasers? Please, ANYONE can do that. They only move like four inches per year!

How many of life's problems can we blame on the Senate Appropriations committee?

Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20 kg. Ammonia, 4 liters. Lime, 1.5 kg. Phosphorus, 800 g. Salt, 250 g. Niter, 100 g. Sulfur, 80 g. Fluoride, 7.5 g. Iron, 5 g. Silicon, 3g. And fifteen other elements.

Don't quit your day job, Rachel

Lewis wrote Transposition before the laser was invented, but today he might have instead called the concept of information from a higher medium expressed or encoded on a lesser medium Holography

A, uh, pneumatic Jesus? As opposed to a hydraulic Jesus?

Miss Tick made her own Missionaria Protectiva lol

I can excuse tiny blue men that are each stronger than three regular men, and even a mystical entity that brings the winter, but I draw the line at Granny Weatherwax violating the second law of thermodynamics.

My pet peeve is when music artists name their album after the first song in that album, and C.S. Lewis went and did that with this book >:(

Actually I already considered Phlebas, thanks.

These guys are like the Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific islands who kept fighting because they didn't know the war was over

Extra cables that were added later but not added to the ship schematics? Yeah that was me. I've been trying to learn SkyCAD, I promise! But there's always more cables to install and never time to add them to the drawings.

Strangely, despite being the same species as Xoralundra, I don't picture Xoxarle as Captain Gantu but as one of the Highbreed from Ben 10: Alien Force.

I don't love how this book suddenly shifted from third-person limited to third-person omniscient in the middle of a chapter.

Wubslin, chief engineer of a spaceship that can travel between stars in hours, is really excited to see a regular train. Yep, I would be too.

It might just be me but I feel like half the time the characters' expressions do not match what they're saying at all

Now I know that Bloody Stupid Johnson is the king of all engineers. He didn't just estimate π = 3, or even truly believe it. He actually implemented it!

So is the image on the cover the Vavatch Sea or the Glittercliff? Both? Both descriptions match.

Ok friend, how are you going to pull off a long-term impersonation of someone who is known to literally never sleep? That feels rather difficult to fake.

This book has exactly the same opening as Endymion by Dan Simmons

I am so incredibly happy that part is over