Spaceballs
I just looked it up. Why start with the second book?

On my waaayyyy!

Sorry mixed it up. Its some time ago that I read the series :) Definitely The colour of magic. Its a very colorfoul comedy fantasy series :)

Its the only world that is carried by elephants on the shell of the big Tuin.

*hides in dark corner of rubber room and giggles to self*

Oh that one - it was one of my first movies in the cinema, I think I was 10 or 11... Didn't get all the jokes and references to Star Wars at that time but the comedy was great - I guess I have to watch it again ...

That sounds great. I'll try it out.

Warning, if you like fantasy and comedy, you'll get hooked!

The nice thing is, under all the tomfoolery there is a great deal of wisdom hidden. "Now is now..."

Go for it. +1 to whole Discworld series.

I did read your answer to stg83, but I was waiting up, wondering if you would go again ;)
I am wondering whether the way we view the game isn't just simply very different. It seems that you very much appreciate the way information (or what I would call "the story", since it's kind of a chain of events) is conveyed, the way you discover all these secrets just by exploring that home. Kind of a "the travelling is the goal" kind of approach?

For me, that's not the important aspect. The travelling is nice, but I want to know what the destination is. Who are these people? What happened here? Why is everyone gone? I found the answers to these questions to be lacking. I didn't find any of the family members paricularly likable (that includes the silent sister the player is impersonating). I didn't find the way Sam's "secret" was handled particularly inspiring. And I found the "final message" rather terrible (it left me more annoyed than actually gleeful).

But obviously, all of this is open to dispute. I also don't mean to poop in your pool here by talking badly about something you felt was a great experience, so I really hope it doesn't sound that way. I find the points you made totally valid, your experience was just wildly different from mine.

*is not particularly worried since his avatar knows what evil's lurking around here* :-D

Get the English originals. The translations aren't bad per se, but a lot of the word plays get lost.

Argh, Cognition again.. does anyone think that it's very good? That price is tempting!

Btw,what about the Borg?

I second that!