Fridaynight was board game night. First up was Chariotteer (aka Formula I) run by Curt. Curt (the bastard) drugged my horses which hobbled my whole race. It went better than it should have as two teams (Jeremy and Stacey) flipped and crashed out so I finished a close third having lost a bid for first at the post.
For the second game I trotted out Terry Pratchett's the Witches which was good silly fun. Link to a review
The box notes that you don't need to know the Discworld series to play the game, and test results show this is this case. Yep, in a random survey of 4 long time gamers we batted 0/4 on Pratchett. I wish I knew something about probability so I could work out the odds of that! I knew it was an odd event when Sylvain asked "why do I know the name Terry Pratchett?".
Anyway for those of you who don't know, Mr Pratchett is the best selling UK writer, the top selling non-US bases writer in the USA and he's bloody good!
I love his books because:
- He's bloody funny and a damn good read.
- He has a better way with words than most others and I'm a lover of puns.
- He creates a better thought out world and characters than most "serious" fantasy writers.
- His books have some very biting no wicked social criticism of religion, politics, money, class and other classic comedy topics.
- He writes about things that relate to what I do for a living (death, money, a academics etc).
- He's bloody funny and a damn good read.