bongo goldstone
@bongogoldstone.bsky.social
I am a mammal.
I have opposable thumbs.
My mama loved me.
I have opposable thumbs.
My mama loved me.
If this is the version I bought a few years ago, it's a real mess, with no indexing, messed up footnotes, etc. I found it unreadable, and re-bought all the books individually. 🤷♂️
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If this is the version I bought a few years ago, it's a real mess, with no indexing, messed up footnotes, etc. I found it unreadable, and re-bought all the books individually. 🤷♂️
I still think of the sixties being as beginning with the Beatles and ending with the arrival of disco and punk.
Those four or five years following Abbey Road this young bongo found really quite interesting, and wonderfully diverse in creative scope. Then the money woke up. 😂
Those four or five years following Abbey Road this young bongo found really quite interesting, and wonderfully diverse in creative scope. Then the money woke up. 😂
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I still think of the sixties being as beginning with the Beatles and ending with the arrival of disco and punk.
Those four or five years following Abbey Road this young bongo found really quite interesting, and wonderfully diverse in creative scope. Then the money woke up. 😂
Those four or five years following Abbey Road this young bongo found really quite interesting, and wonderfully diverse in creative scope. Then the money woke up. 😂
Our lady of the hopelessly jammed turnip twaddler! 😮
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Our lady of the hopelessly jammed turnip twaddler! 😮
I liked the implication that the distressing smell of his natural compresses helped provide him with some social distancing from anybody he might otherwise catch something from.
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I liked the implication that the distressing smell of his natural compresses helped provide him with some social distancing from anybody he might otherwise catch something from.
Crap, doesn’t that look familiar? 🤮
August 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Crap, doesn’t that look familiar? 🤮
Good choice. After all, someone’s gotta do it! 👍
August 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Good choice. After all, someone’s gotta do it! 👍
Yeah, he has serious problems.
August 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Yeah, he has serious problems.
It’s the “taco trucks on every corner” nightmare all over again! 😮
August 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It’s the “taco trucks on every corner” nightmare all over again! 😮
But The Sheperd's Crown I found healing. Sad, joyous, and healing, like a good wake held for the dearest of friends.
None of this is the truth, of course. It was merely as I experienced it all, and I remain thankful that I did. ❤️ 7/7
None of this is the truth, of course. It was merely as I experienced it all, and I remain thankful that I did. ❤️ 7/7
August 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
But The Sheperd's Crown I found healing. Sad, joyous, and healing, like a good wake held for the dearest of friends.
None of this is the truth, of course. It was merely as I experienced it all, and I remain thankful that I did. ❤️ 7/7
None of this is the truth, of course. It was merely as I experienced it all, and I remain thankful that I did. ❤️ 7/7
It was many, many years after pTerry died that I finally read The Sheperd's Crown, and as I said, I'm very glad now that I did. Raising Steam would have been a horrible way to end that wonderful series -- although had pTerry been healthy he certainly could have smelted a good book out of it. 6/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It was many, many years after pTerry died that I finally read The Sheperd's Crown, and as I said, I'm very glad now that I did. Raising Steam would have been a horrible way to end that wonderful series -- although had pTerry been healthy he certainly could have smelted a good book out of it. 6/x
By Raising Steam, the alarm bells started going off for me -- something seemed wrong. Vetinari -- who had always been the subtlest of characters -- suddenly read like a hastily-sketched caricature of a tyrant. Dialogs, speeches and monologs rambled unconvincingly, and went astray. It worried me. 5/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
By Raising Steam, the alarm bells started going off for me -- something seemed wrong. Vetinari -- who had always been the subtlest of characters -- suddenly read like a hastily-sketched caricature of a tyrant. Dialogs, speeches and monologs rambled unconvincingly, and went astray. It worried me. 5/x
Snuff now seems seriously under-edited to me. Lots of passionate but rambling speeches or monologs, mostly from Vimes. It eventually stumbles to the finish line, but it's a struggle. I don't remember now when news of the embuggerance became public, but I know I wasn't yet aware of it. 4/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Snuff now seems seriously under-edited to me. Lots of passionate but rambling speeches or monologs, mostly from Vimes. It eventually stumbles to the finish line, but it's a struggle. I don't remember now when news of the embuggerance became public, but I know I wasn't yet aware of it. 4/x
Thud! still reads pretty normally to me. Infected Vimes definitely reads differently than non-infected Vimes, true, but that makes sense in context, to me. Unseen Academicals was the first one which seemed somehow under-edited or hurriedly finished to me. 3/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thud! still reads pretty normally to me. Infected Vimes definitely reads differently than non-infected Vimes, true, but that makes sense in context, to me. Unseen Academicals was the first one which seemed somehow under-edited or hurriedly finished to me. 3/x
Some did not. Soul Music, sadly, still doesn't work for me. Masquerade, Carpe Jugulum, Hogfather and Jingo all seem better. Jingo, for some reason, I remembered being an absolute mess, but in retrospect, it holds together pretty well. I must have been pretty distracted when that one came out. 2/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Some did not. Soul Music, sadly, still doesn't work for me. Masquerade, Carpe Jugulum, Hogfather and Jingo all seem better. Jingo, for some reason, I remembered being an absolute mess, but in retrospect, it holds together pretty well. I must have been pretty distracted when that one came out. 2/x
On my latest re-reads, I've noticed how much of an effect whatever was going on in my personal or professional life at the time of release had on my initial impressions of many of these books. Several which I had poor or underwhelming first impressions of now seemed better than I remembered. 1/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
On my latest re-reads, I've noticed how much of an effect whatever was going on in my personal or professional life at the time of release had on my initial impressions of many of these books. Several which I had poor or underwhelming first impressions of now seemed better than I remembered. 1/x
When my spellcheck suddenly got much more aggressive and bizarre than usual, I suspected it was now employing Artificial Incoherence, and eventually found a setting to turn that off. The typos I've been making unassisted for decades are much more legible than that word salad, thank you!
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When my spellcheck suddenly got much more aggressive and bizarre than usual, I suspected it was now employing Artificial Incoherence, and eventually found a setting to turn that off. The typos I've been making unassisted for decades are much more legible than that word salad, thank you!
39 (Snuff) & 40 (Raising Steam) where the ones where I could feel the presence of the embuggerance the most. 41 (The Shepherd’s Crown) was one I was very glad to have read. It did feel a bit rushed, as if the writer were running out of time, but I found the flow felt more natural than in RS.
August 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
39 (Snuff) & 40 (Raising Steam) where the ones where I could feel the presence of the embuggerance the most. 41 (The Shepherd’s Crown) was one I was very glad to have read. It did feel a bit rushed, as if the writer were running out of time, but I found the flow felt more natural than in RS.
I haven’t read much Gaiman at all, but the little I did read nothing at all like GO. I always thought that GO read like pure Pratchett.
August 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I haven’t read much Gaiman at all, but the little I did read nothing at all like GO. I always thought that GO read like pure Pratchett.
Yeah, they were pretty bleak. 😂
August 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Yeah, they were pretty bleak. 😂
I’m envious! This was the cover for the American hardcover:
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m envious! This was the cover for the American hardcover:
"this aggression will not stand, man."
August 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"this aggression will not stand, man."
It reminds me of the old Groucho joke which starts with "outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend." 😂
August 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It reminds me of the old Groucho joke which starts with "outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend." 😂
I like the stoics.🙂
August 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I like the stoics.🙂