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[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

The Colour of Magic was published in 1983, The Shepherd's Crown was posthumously published in 2015 with up to three books published in some years. It's an incredible life's work.

If you liked The Colour of Magic, I'd strongly recommend continuing reading, it's usually considered one of the weakest novels in the discworld, being the first book he wrote while still having a day job.

The good thing is, there are these sub series as you can see in the picture following specific characters with some cameos from the other series, so no need to read all of them (although recommended, because they're great). Even within these series, every book is basically a standalone story with minimal spoilers if you read them out of order and zero confusion if you don't remember what happened in the last book.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

I'd like to add Melissa Caruso to the list of authors. I really enjoyed the first two books of the Echo Archives series. The third book will come out in November. Haven't read her other books yet, but they're on my list.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Very much agreed on the Broken Earth series

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

I mean, they mentioned they're already reading Discworld...

I found this reading order quite helpful: The reading order is quite helpful

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 8 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I'm reading the Tiffany Aching books right now, about to finish the whole 41 book discworld series and it's absolutely unfair to say Discworld is an alternative to Harry Potter, it's just so, so, so much better. Better universe, better writing, better characters - and better writer with better character.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are probably a lot of bananas in that picture

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Not sure" is screwing with the results. Probably most of those 36% simply don't know who he is. If you omit "not sure", Mamdani is on top

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I couldn't find numbers for this specific institute, only that this is the lowest it's ever been. A similar question was asked in[0], where the US under Obama was seen positively by 64% of Germans, while under Bush it was 30% and 78% under Clinton

[0]https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/obama-steigert-weltweit-us-ansehen-6806518.html

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

You're right, but bad example. Maybe when talking about Germans, use an actual German example? There are more than enough, Kurt Georg Kiesinger for instance.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

The funniest thing is that people who think you need some kind of qualification to vote also think they would be part of those qualified

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 86 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Not really the same, I mean, Beanie Babies actually physically exist and require work to be produced. You could compare it to Labubus, Warhammer figures or collectibles of any kind but NFTs are just peak worthless stupidity with no prior equivalent

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