#i actually don't remember having any opinion on Granny at all. it was 12+ years ago and as a mentor figure she is very tropey

[laurelnose]

hello again I have finished Men at Arms and Feet of Clay and am now partway through Jingo. I did really like Feet of Clay! delightful original golem worldbuilding. not that I don’t appreciate the trope riffing but I just. love a good worldbuilding conceit okay. and golems, I am sooooo partial to golems. I also like Cheri although I could have SWORN her chosen name was Cherry. maybe this is an edition issue?? I don’t know what I have. she’s really cute. the running gag of Vimes asking her what she’s wearing and then realizing he has no substantive comment to make was actually very funny. It is also very funny that it is possibly more scandalous in dwarf society to bandy about that you are a Heterosexual Couple than to just be two married guys. yeah. Feet of Clay was good.

@heronfem said:

If you're enjoying the city, you might like the city books that aren't about the Watch a lot, The Truth and Going Postal are very fun without feeling like they really need to hit the gas and get a move on. Making Money is... okay. I don't recommend Snuff or Raising Steam as far as the Vimes books go, they were written as his cognition started to decline due to alzheimers and they can be upsetting to read. (the politics are also a little odd imo but obviously ymmv on that one) Oh, and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is very Tiffany, which is really fun.

@chaosaccountant said:

If you enjoy the character work and world-building of the watch books, but not the 'mysteries', maybe try the witches books, from Witches Abroad onwards? You likely already have an option on Granny Weatherwax, so this is her as protagonist rather than mentor.

this is very good advice, probably, since actually I did already have Mr von Lipwig and the Witches as my two top candidates for things to try after except there are eight Watch books and five Tiffany books and I did some vague mental arithmetic and got scared of committing to how many books that was.

i suspect you are actually recommending that i jump around from the Watch books though and while that is also probably good advice i am reluctant to do that yet. I will miss Carrot. I love Carrot. Me and my friend Carrot who should not be Captain of anything and should have been a union man or an EMT or a pro-bono Lawyer or a Canvasser for Local Democracy. a Full-Time Rescuer of Old Ladies’ Cats From Trees, perhaps. We are sticking out this fucking goofy approach to casework together.

also yeah I admit ‘mysteries’ was kind of the wrong word for the Watch books. Feet of Clay is actually more or less a real mystery but Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms are basically procedurals which as a genre of novel is often lumped in with “mystery” bc of the overlap with Detectives, but they are not in any way mysterious. but i’m used to procedurals and casefic type stuff being less... uh... bumbling. honestly you get used to the idiocy too though. kind of getting into a groove tbh. we’ll see where I end up going

i’ve got Men at Arms open on Clara and Raven Stratagem open on my phone, which is a great combo to make a guy constantly pick up the wrong ebook device and go “what the fuck is HAPPENING”