Neemo that cover is like something from the 70's, it reminds me of the books I inherited from older relations when I was a wee boy.

I also enjoy the Terry Pratchett "Discworld" series. Its quite hard to decribe what its all about, I suppose you could think of it as a world in a parallel universe. This is a flat world, a disc, supported on the backs of 4 elephants which in turn are standing on the back of a giant turtle.

The turtle and the elephants dont come into the stories much though, in the same way that nobody mentions very often in stories set on our world, that earth is a giant ball of molten rock and iron. Its just a fact of life and people just get on with it.

The stories are pretty much light hearted, humerous parodies of the kinds of things that happen here, but most stories have will have themes like politics, crime, romance, mystery, who-dunnit etc.  The exception being that this is a fantastical magical world that witches, wizards, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves etc inhabit and things are generally a bit madder.

In the Discworld series there is "mini series" I suppose, where main characters appear. There is the witches, who are main characters and appear in a number of books, they live in more rural parts. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are the 2 main witches who appear in quite a few books in the Discworld series, and pop up now and again in other books that are about other people.

A lot of the stories are set in a city on the disc called Ankh-Morpork, this home to the City Watch, who are also main characters and have a number of books set around their lives:

Left to right, Nobby Nobbs, Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes and Sergeant Colon - The Night Watch

The city is also home to the wizards who appear quite often, they have a university there, called Unseen University, but dont do much teaching though, they get up to more shenanigans than the students, who dont really appear at all. Probably because the senior wizards in the books avoid students like the plague and do as little work as possible, their all barking mad in there own individual ways, and the Librarian is an orangutan who's only word is "ook".

One transient wizard who appears in a few books is Rincewind, he isnt very good at magic, is a bit of a coward but has an uncanny knack of saving the world from time to time. He appears along with his psychotic luggage that follows him around on lots of little feet.

One character who makes an appearence in nearly all the books is Death. He is a 7 foot skeleton with the scythe and dark cloak and rides a great white horse called  "Binky."
He appears whenever anyone dies, he actually is the main character in a few books.
Oh, and he likes kittens.

Theres a small Duff interview here at Download today:

http://www.rockradio.co.uk/scotland/roc … /uhb8pgwm/

I'm gonnie watch Slipknot.

http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/webcast/

There comes a point when you have to let go of the ball though. He said there were a few completed and approved versions to choose between but they still put out a draft. If anyone should have been stepping in it was Azoff, he is the fucking manager, he is supposed to deal with ironing these things out, not the singer.

I agree this was a legendary recording and should have been presented much better, errors aside. I love the artwork Axl chose by Shi Lifeng, I hope the approved version has more of his work as well as a higher standard of presentation, I thought the one we got was quite a tacky layout overall.