Comment on irresistable

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is Tiffany, walking back home. Start with the boots. They are big and heavy boots, much repaired by her father and they’d belonged to various sisters before her; she wore several pairs of socks to keep them on. They are big. Tiffany sometimes feels she is nothing more than a way of moving boots around.

  Then there is the dress. it has been owned by many sisters before her and has been taken up, taken out, taken down and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.

  A few pages later

  She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat. The screaming monster, leaping out of the water, met the frying pan coming the other way with a clang.

  It was a good clang, with the oiyoiyoiyoioioioioinnnnnnggggg that is the mark of a clang well done.

  Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men

  And Corporal Nobbs… well, anyone like Nobby had unlimited reasons for not wishing to be seen by other people. You didn’t have to think hard about that. The only reason you couldn’t say that Nobby was close to the animal kingdom was that the animal kingdom would get up and walk away.

  Terry Pratchett - Guards Guards

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn’t cynical enough when writing Zaphod.

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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.

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• 90s_hacker@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams.

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    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:

      “You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

      “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

      “You ask a glass of water.”

      Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ll take it, and I stand corrected.

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    • 90s_hacker@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.

      Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape

      something like these, perhaps? There are probably better examples, I just skimmed through the first couple chapters of Hitchiker’s Guide to the galaxy

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• LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Terry Pratchett Discworld books? From memory the ones about witches at least had a good bit of it.

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series. For a long while you’re not actually sure what species the characters are, what they look like, if they even have gender, and how many limbs they have.

  It’s a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it’s awesome)

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• LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you’d probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.

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