I've read the first chapter, but I'll get back to it in a few weeks....

Should I give Gormenghast another go?



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Definitely. Gormenghast is fantastic.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

I've tried to many times (at least twice) with Gormenghast and never suceeded, now the sight of the cover brings on a rash and nervous twitch....


How about Jaws for a greedy villian.

Wolfram & Hart?

I've always thought of the mayor in Jaws as the villain.

Sure, the shark was just hungry.

*Is getting confused about the vampire takeover, excited at someone mentioning Coraline and would like to add Mrs Coulter (Northern Lights) for most evil female* (despite later redeeming actions imo she's still definitely unsettling) and erm... why can't I think of any male villans at the moment?

*****HARRY POTTER SPOILERS********

If anyone's the villan in HP it's Rowling herself. The woman has systematically taken away every hope of happiness- first Sirius, now Dumbledore, I swear the 7th book is going to open with a massacre at Grimmauld Place, with Harry having to kill Ron and Hermione himself before Ginny dies in his arms. Not that I don't like the increasing darkness of the books, it'll be funny watching the makers of Order of the Phoenix try and get their pg rating on that one...

*****HARRY POTTER SPOILERS********

I don't think they'll be able to go back to a PG rating, now that Goblet of Fire has been rated PG13.

Vampire takeover? they're just that cool. They tend to do that.



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Ever read Carpe Jugulum?

Now there is a seriously evil vampire. Refuses to play fair....



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

"seize the jugulum", huh, interesting title. Get's right to the point, doesn't it? Would I need to read the whole discworld series to understand it? Because, at the rate I'm going through books now I'm in college, I'd get through 23 books in, oh, 5 or 6 years.



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

No, you wouldn't have to read the whole series, as pretty much all the Discworld books work as stand-alones...

That said, Carpe Jugulum is the most recent Granny Weatherwax book (not including the Tiffany Aching series where she features), and in this particular case reading a few of the previous in her sub-series (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, in that order) could help.

It's the motto of the vampyres....

Means "Sieze the Throat" or "Go for the Throat".

A word of warning, the Witches books are a bit more difficult. I didn't like any of them the first time round but re-read them and liked 'em a lot.

23 books in 5-6 years? Not bad going compared to my friends who can get through 1 in 2 years on a good decade....



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

23 books in 5-6 years is taking into account my summer holidays, when I could read practically all day.



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Still....

I probably hit 23 books a year at the moment but I read fast.

Can a whole race count as a villain? I would nominate the Korozhet from Rats Bats and Vats.



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Count OLaf....he's horrid, and to top it off he has a MONOBROW!!!!



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now, if i could just remember where i left my electrodes....


www.ratherunfortunate.moonfruit.com

That is a definate sign of evil....



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

not...... a sign of evil!!


actually if they were a sign of real evil they'd be sort of.... Rainbow shaped.

They can't be a SURE sign of evil. I've never seen a clown with a unibrow, and everyone knows they're evil.

And don;t forget Dolls. Dolls very rarely have unibrows, and everyone knows they're possessed by evil spirits.