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Lauren
is 48% done
It's sad to be reading this and seeing the high standard drop off so hard (for good, understandable reasons). There is so so much exposition and reported speech. Instead of the wild, condensed timelines you see in Moving Pictures or The Truth where a new technology is innovated in a week or so ("it only takes a day to invent the horse collar" - Thief of Time), this is taking a realistic timeline of months.
— Jun 24, 2026 02:28AM
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Lauren
is 90% done
Apparently this has now turned into Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) what the hell do you mean it's flying
— Jun 25, 2026 02:57AM
Lauren
is 82% done
The Railway Children catching strays 😂 Pratchett really did refuse to leave without reminding us how much he hated Victorian children's fiction, as if Tiffany and Susan railing against Alice In Wonderland and other clichés was too subtle
— Jun 25, 2026 02:03AM
Lauren
is 32% done
Just flipped over to the audiobook and somehow Stephen Briggs' Adora-Belle voice got worse because he forgot she spoke with a Northern Irish accent in previous books (which was already a horrible and very odd choice) and instead did a generic Scottish accent. Which is confusing because it's the exact same voice as Mossy Lawn and they have at least one scene together. Why, Briggs???
— Jun 23, 2026 12:20PM