How'd you get it involved with your application? ::is insanely curious::
I was surprised that the barricade fighting ended so easily... and then there was the ambush and you KNEW it wasn't over and it wasn't fair and amnesty is a dirty political lie.
And the humor is much funnier in the darker context because it's so welcome. Also, Pratchett is not only able to write drama well, and humor well, but writes them well TOGETHER, which is just totally unfair.
We must have different tastes in this (or read it while in different mindsets), because I hardly laughed at all. I appreciated the humor-- I smiled and in a few places chuckled, but to me the book as a whole was much less humorous. What would have been funny in a lighter context was just ironic in this context, or darkly satirical. And I hardly ever *laugh* at black satire. Not the kind of laugh I normally get from Pratchett. I just enjoy it and move forward. I also felt that while of course the wit was top-notch, TP went for a real laugh-out-loud less frequently than normal. The slapstick and the "humor from talking to stupid characters" was lessened in favor of a more general dark satire, more subtle wit and jokes that are played less for outright laughter. That was what I got from it, anwyay.
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Date: 2008-06-18 11:11 pm (UTC)I was surprised that the barricade fighting ended so easily... and then there was the ambush and you KNEW it wasn't over and it wasn't fair and amnesty is a dirty political lie.
And the humor is much funnier in the darker context because it's so welcome. Also, Pratchett is not only able to write drama well, and humor well, but writes them well TOGETHER, which is just totally unfair.
We must have different tastes in this (or read it while in different mindsets), because I hardly laughed at all. I appreciated the humor-- I smiled and in a few places chuckled, but to me the book as a whole was much less humorous. What would have been funny in a lighter context was just ironic in this context, or darkly satirical. And I hardly ever *laugh* at black satire. Not the kind of laugh I normally get from Pratchett. I just enjoy it and move forward. I also felt that while of course the wit was top-notch, TP went for a real laugh-out-loud less frequently than normal. The slapstick and the "humor from talking to stupid characters" was lessened in favor of a more general dark satire, more subtle wit and jokes that are played less for outright laughter. That was what I got from it, anwyay.