Oh, looking for a series of books to fall in love with?

Dec 24, 2015 10:58 AM

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Sir Terry Pratchett

He wrote these incredible books

These books are, in short, beautifully crafted works of literature. Most take place in the same universe called the Discworld in Lancre or in Ankh-Morpork or wherever Rincewind ends up.

The discworld

On top of four elephants on the back of the great A'tuin (whose sex is still unknown), hurtling through space. Yes, you can fall off the rim.

Are you ready for incredible quotes?

Books that take place in exotic lands

Yup, he's got em.

Do you want strong female characters?

Oh, so many. There's Weatherwax, Ogg, Susan, Tiffany, Angua, just to name a few. God, so great. SOOOOOOO great.

Or maybe you're looking for some awesome wizards?

They even have an orangutan as a librarian. Don't call him a monkey.

This awesome guy?

Sam Vimes, head of the Night Watch

His crew

OH! There are so many different races, from golems to werewolves to vampires, fairies, dwarves, gods, and so much more.

Or it's possible you want the greatest character of all time?

He's my personal favorite. Death is a common character because he's, well, death, so he appears whenever characters die. But he's just the neatest thing in the world. And he has a horse called Binky!

Do you want actually decent movies that stay completely true to the book?

Seriously, they do it right.

Or something for the holidays?

It has the wizards, death, the hogfather (santa), the greatest villain ever, and Susan Death.

Do you want cats?

Okay, there's not a ton of cats. But doesn't matter.

Holiday tax

Seriously though, Pratchett is incredible and this book series is phenomenal.

Death isn't cruel, just terribly good at his job

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WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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I love Mort and Reaper man

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The Going Postal mini series was pretty awesome too!

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I will always, ALWAYS, really fucking always upvote Sir Pterry.

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Best writer of a generation. So sad that he passed away! The last of the Tiffany Aching books was very poignant.

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Somebody help me out here. I read the hogfather. What next??

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City Watch: Guards, Men-Arms, Snuff, Night Watch, Fifth Elephant, Thud, Jingo. Postal/Money/Steam. Then all: watch for Vimes and Patrician.

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There's a map kinda thingy that helps with what order to read things in, you can just Google Discworld reading order

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A wizard's staff has a knob on the end.

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Yadda yadda something about buggering a hedgehog!!

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I'd like to add that Sir Terry is not only a novelist, but in my mind a modern day philosopher. I've read the whole series at least twice.

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"Nation" is a great one for philosophy

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He absolutely is. His books are remarkably effective at communicating that philosophy. And they do it in such a non threatening way.

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Sigh. *was.

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It really is a shame... I was really sad to hear it :(

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You actually say is when talking about the works of an author. Though he has passed, his words and philosophy still speak to us.

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OOK

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What I really love about his books is the subtle under-laying commentary on human race. He was truly brilliant.

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I saw the last half of Hogfather one misty christmas eve when i was 12. Imagine my excitement when i learned it was part of a book series!

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Good post fellow. I've read Guards! Guards! So far and his writing style is unparalleled

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He only got better with age. You're in for some great times.

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And some interesting ones!

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Turtles all the way down

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I keep telling people that but they won't believe me.

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Just finished re-reading all the discworld books. They're amazing and will always be my favorites. Especially Night watch and Mort.

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All of the books with Sam Vimes and the Night Watch were my favorites.

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Night Watch was a work of genius.

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Agreed. Absolutely!

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I miss a man I've never met. I grew up with his books and can't bring myself to read his last novel

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Anyone else think Sam Vimes looks suspiciously like Dennis Quaid?

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Sean Astin looks a bit like Mark Hamill there too.

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They kind of both do. Obviously not Tim

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Yes, I was about to say the same thing until I saw your comment

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I thought it was...definitely not Randy Quaid.

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Randy Quaid can play colon, in one half of the best Dickinson and associated joke ever

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Dick and Ass

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Was just scrolling down to comment that. First thing I thought!

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In that particular picture, yes. I've always thought the description of him was more like Clint Eastwood, though.

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My first thought was Josh Brolin!

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Pratchett always saw him as Peter Postlethwaite

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Didn't know that, but it's good enough for me.

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If you read Where's My Cow he looks just like him, and apparently Sir Terry said that he'd want him to play vimes if a film were made

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My first thought was Josh Brolin!

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Dennis Quaid is all, and all is Dennis Quaid

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I always imagined Sam Vimes played by a younger than now Fred Ward. Eastwood seemed too handsome, not craggy enough.

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I was thinking Blendyourdick Cabbagepatch

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My immediate thought.

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Thanks. I'd never seen that. Now I'm crying on Christmas Eve.

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np, manly tears are appropiate in this case, the only time i was that sad was when robert jordan died, great authors die way 2 soon

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And I'm chopping onions...

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Personally I found the colour of magic and the light fantastic to be a little haphazard, but after that is pure gokd

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Easily the worst of the books.

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+1 for correct spelling of colour of magic unlike the ops post!!!

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*pure glod

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The paragraphs about glod are golden

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gloden, even

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Gold dammit

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The phrase "gold dammit" is definitely a dwarven epithet.

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gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, glod, gold,...

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The first three books are almost completely retconned by the end of the series' run. *shrug*

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I feel like he tried to be Douglas Adams with his first two books and then found his own style.

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Really in the series you can see his full arc as an author. From the rough beginnings, the solid middle, and the degradation at the end.

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I didn't detect any degradation. Just more solid characters in great stories. Oh and the Aching series was aimed at youngsters.

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Love everything he wrote until raising steam... that one imo was a disaster :(

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There is some, but it is forgivable considering his mental decline. They are really good considering what he was dealing with.

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There were quite a few books towards the end that were just haphazard and forgettable. Missed jokes, rough transitions, incoherent plots etc

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He also had Alzheimer's so...

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yeah, it was probably starting to show around that point.

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This is absolutely right. I feel a lot of people could be put off by starting at the beginning. I would even say the first two are poor.

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My first Pratchett was Small Gods. In hind sight, it was a great place to start. :)

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My first was wee free men

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Yeah, I couldn't get into The Colour of Magic. Then I read Thief of Time and was hooked.

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Is there a proper order in which to read these books?

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As I was told once, "there are many opinions for where one can start. However, they are all wrong and one should start with guards! guards!"

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I would start with Small Gods, it's quite stand alone (and one of my favourites, which did not influence my recommendation at all)

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order guide to see other characters' stories you want to follow

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(2) This turned out to be a great suggestion so start there, and then follow those characters for a while and then reference the reading

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You could also start with the Tiffany Series(Young adult novels in agalzoff image) It is kind of different but still plays on the discworld.

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But i'd say for the classic start "Guards! Guards!" might be the best choice. You will read ALL THE BOOKS anyway ;)

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Haha oh poor Australia http://imgur.com/t67M8AA

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I think you mean XXXX

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No worries

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?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Last Continent, the Australia visited in Discworld, was called XXXX

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Ahhh I see. Haven't read the books. Just wiki mr.pratchett to check out his works and saw this

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It's pronounced Fourecks.

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Awww yisss, Muthafuckin' Terry Pratchett.

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Favorited so I'll remember to read them! Seems exactly like what I'm looking for at the moment!

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Unpopular opinion: I read 'Mort' and didn't really like it. Do you think I'd enjoy other books in the universe better or about the same?

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I think the Wee Free Men is from the other end. It's a children book, but I still enjoyed it immensely.

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Mort has one of my all time favourite Pratchett quotes so I can't knock it!!!!!!!!

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I guess there's no accounting for BEING WRONG ABOUT A GREAT BOOK.

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better.. try one of the guards series

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Color of magic is the worst book I've ever read. Not sure if I want to try another.

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/2 author spends too much time on universe and not enough time holding a cohesive thought. Too many plots that go nowhere.

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3/ formatting sucked. Author changed thoughts constantly with no page break or marker. Not just kindle version .. Paper back the same.

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You definitely should. Color of Magic was kind of a mess. The later books get better. I started with 'Guards, Guards'.

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Moving Pictures or Guards ! Guards !

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Try Wyrd Sisters and the rest of the witches books.

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Try later books, the style kept changing a bit as the series progressed. The style of each book also depends on who are the main characters.

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This needs all my upvotes

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No mention of the patrician vetinary? One of my favorites, but all of his books are amazing. It is a tragedy that we lost him last year

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*Vetinari. Havelock Vetinari. And yes, the Assassin's Guild has been informed of your mistake.

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Veni, Vici... Vetinari.

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Oh man that is one of my favorite lines.

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It hasn't even been a year yet, he only passed away the 12th of March, 2015.

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Man that's depressing, his books were the first real series I got into when I was younger

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Happy Hogswatch, every one!!!

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DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?

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Sǫᴜᴇᴇᴋ!

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Funny how just seeing the CAPS sets my inner voice off. Such great writing.

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Boom boom goes the tombstones.

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Also, the room.

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I loved Thud! the most. Deep-downer dwarfs that worship Glod and don't trust people that have seen the light. Fabulous

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My first was Reaper Man and it's still one of my favorites. Pretty much anything with a lot of the wizards in it is great.

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I fucking loved Fifth Elephant as well. That story about Agi Hammerthief is proper myth.

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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

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I'll send a clacks

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I don't think that will ever stop, esp with so many servers having pterry's name in their headers.. Mine does.

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GNU Pterry, Brings a tear to my eye every time.

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What is GNU Pterry, please?

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G is for pass on the message, N is for "Not logged" and U is turn around at the end. In the books when a telegrapher (Clacksman) dies 1/2

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His name is put into the overhead, a continuous stream of information, with the instructions to send it back and forth forever. 2/3

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The discworld version of the telegraph has the code GNU, which essentially means it stays in the system forever. The inventor 1/2

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of the clacks then puts his son's name in the system with that code so that he stays alive as long as the clacks does.

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@OP you missed the chance to talk about Death on all caps. SMH. Upvoting but still, SMH.

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Nᴇᴀᴛᴏ

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I love everyone commenting on this post and OP for making it. RIP Terry. <3

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You called?

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Awesome!

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Seriously? Let people buy the damn things.

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This is a man's hard work. Buy books, people.

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Don't get me wrong I own about 15 of his books. I saw this in another Terry Pratchett thread and thought it might be appreciated.

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I am so embarrassed you have no idea.

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You forgot they made an awesome movie out of " Going Postal" as well.

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Wᴇʟʟ. Nᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ.

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He is my favorite Author in the world. Reaper man made me cry. I've always loved his books

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Not in particular. Just jump right in, some of them tie together. Try starting with The Wee free men or Going Postal.

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YES. THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT.

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NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG.

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Omg. Gonna reread Reaper Man now

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you can read???

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ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴛʏᴘᴇ ᴏғ ᴄᴀᴘs, ʙᴜᴛ ɪ'ʟʟ ᴀʟʟᴏᴡ ɪᴛ.

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Sǫᴜᴇᴇᴋ!

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Ook?

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Yes, but I don't quite see more bananas will fix this bloody mess..

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