'A magical accident in the Library, which as has already been indicated is not a place for your average rubber-stamp-and-Dewey-decimal employment, had some time ago turned the Librarian into an orang-utan. He had since resisted all efforts to turn him back. He liked the handy long arms, the prehensile toes and the right to scratch himself in public, but most of all he liked the way all the big questions of existence had suddenly resolved themselves into a vague interest in where his next banana was coming from. It wasn't that he was unaware of the despair and nobility of the human condition. It was just that as far as he was concerned you could stuff it.'
Sourcery
(Page 16, footnote)
This took me so long to finish and it's only 270 pages long.
Never start a book when you're exhausted.
No matter how easy it is to read.
Don't even read it the second day if you're still exhausted and doing the noddies like i was.
The number of times i had to re-read whole pages was ridiculous.
I just couldn't get my brain to connect and consequently it took me 10 days to finish a 3-5 day book.
Glad i did though due to the fact that Terry Pratchett is splendiferous and i encountered the cutest line in the history of literature:
'The Librarian looked at his charges approvingly, made his last rounds of the slumbering shelves, and then dragged his blanket underneath his desk, ate a goodnight banana, and fell asleep.'
- (Page 270)
...
A GOODNIGHT BANANA!
Holy cute, Bananaman.
I love the Librarian.
I feel somewhat of a kinship with the Librarian.
Someone turn me into an Orang-utan and put me in charge of a magical library please.
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