Discworld

[Lemon Of Life]

Please tell me someone has read the EdgeWorld series? PLEASE! When i was a kid i fucking loved those books, some author i think. So imaginative

No, those weren't by Pratchett, but I loved them too when I was 11-13. They aren't funny, but the universe is so awesome, I bought all of them.

And yes, Pratchett is probably my favourite author. Thanks for the thread, I'm gna read them all again.

 

[JoshGod]

ive read every one even the ones for younger readers XD
i think thats about 37ish
although the proper ones have reached about 30ish
its a shame as they're proply wont be any more or mayby very few.
illd recommend you read morte it is very good i think its about N.9 ish

 

[hittite]

Referencing the copy of The Color of Magic that I currently have checked out from my local library, Pratchett says that the idea of a flat world on the back of four elephants that are on the back of a giant turtle "has been lying in the lumber rooms of legend for centuries. All I had to do was grab it and run away before the alarms went off."

 

[GrinningManiac]

Love all his work, he's a genius. My favourite so far is a toss-up between Thud, anything the Witches are in or anything that involved Munstrum Ridcully to any extent.

Munstrum and Death are my favourites

Please tell me someone has read the EdgeWorld series? PLEASE! When i was a kid i fucking loved those books, some author i think. So imaginative

they were BRILLIANT. Clash of the Sky Galleons was one of my favourites (though my first was Last of the Sky Pirates, which obviously threw off the chronology)

 

[ioxles]

I love Pratchett, anyone who wants to discuss him or wants to know about any similar authors pm me.

 

[bombchu]

I'm just starting Guards, Guards!, trying to go in the order he wrote them. Even though the first one I read was Going Postal. It's still my favorite so far, too!

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Mort and Small Gods are probably my two favourite. Reaper Man would have been the best one in my opinion, if it wasn't for that weird side story with the zombie and the supermarket (I still don't quite get it). I'm currently reading Unseen Academicals, and it's pretty decent so far, plus the twist about half way though is an interesting one.

I can't believe you didn't find many people that had heard of them, they're pretty well known, especially with the movies now.

 

[Gebi10000]

Thud!,going postal,making money,equal rites,wyrd sisters. all great books

 

[Geamo]

I'd be correct in saying there are a fair number of Discworld fans around. I myself own all of them - brilliant novels in my opionion. For preference, Good Omens (a glorius combination of Pratchett and Neil Gaiman), Going Postal , the entire Watch Series (Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo!, The Fifth Elephant, Thud!) .

 

[TheMatt]

I've read all the books and I find his work get weaker the further along the chain you are.

So in order, my fave is book 1, second favourite is book 2... and so on...

 

[Viking Incognito]

Good Omens is one of my favorite books.

 

[Doug]

I've got pretty much all of the books, Terry Pratchet is a good comedy fiction writer... "Interesting Times" is the funniest book of all time.

Same here - about the only ones I don't have are the plays and such.

ALthough he's rubbish at creating well liked "female" characters, Angua's the only good girl he's managed to create, and she's a werewolf. Its like he's the Anti Joss Whedan.

Well... true, I suppose. I think its because he has a penis. Tends to make it harder to get into the female mindset with one of those hanging around.

The problem with his female characters tends to be pretty hard boiled. Though Nanna Ogg is amusing, stood next to the stern Granny Weatherwax.

 

[Doug]

Good Omens is one of my favorite books.

Indeed, Good Omens was great; Strata and "The Dark side of the Sun" both had their good points, but like the first 2 or 3 Discworld books, took themselves abit too seriously.

EDIT: Nearly forgot - the carpet people was Terry's first novel and was pretty darn good; sort of a Roman Empire world within the threads of a carpet.

 

[El Poncho]

I've read, Mort, Pyramids, Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and i'm currently reading Lords and Ladies, oh and the Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents, which was the first one I read

 

[CIA]

I've got pretty much all of the books, Terry Pratchet is a good comedy fiction writer... "Interesting Times" is the funniest book of all time.

Same here - about the only ones I don't have are the plays and such.

ALthough he's rubbish at creating well liked "female" characters, Angua's the only good girl he's managed to create, and she's a werewolf. Its like he's the Anti Joss Whedan.

Well... true, I suppose. I think its because he has a penis. Tends to make it harder to get into the female mindset with one of those hanging around.

The problem with his female characters tends to be pretty hard boiled. Though Nanna Ogg is amusing, stood next to the stern Granny Weatherwax.

Monstrous Regiment has all good female characters. Most of them aren't very hard-boiled either.(Also look at The Watch series, The witches series, The Moist books, Pyramids, and the Death series for good female characters.)
I think he is better at female characters than you say. He probably finds stereotypical female characters boring, so he shies away from that. I know I find them boring.

 

[Abedeus]

You... LISTEN... to Pratchett books? God. That's like eating a spaghetti power bar.

My collection:

Color of Magic, Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Guards Guards, Eric, Reaper Man, Small Gods, Soul Music, Interesting Times (reading it ATM for the nth time), Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Thief of Time, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Thud (English version), Wintersmith.

I'm buying Lords and Ladies, Moving Pictures and/or Making Money pretty soon.

I've got pretty much all of the books, Terry Pratchet is a good comedy fiction writer... "Interesting Times" is the funniest book of all time.

Same here - about the only ones I don't have are the plays and such.

ALthough he's rubbish at creating well liked "female" characters, Angua's the only good girl he's managed to create, and she's a werewolf. Its like he's the Anti Joss Whedan.

Well... true, I suppose. I think its because he has a penis. Tends to make it harder to get into the female mindset with one of those hanging around.

The problem with his female characters tends to be pretty hard boiled. Though Nanna Ogg is amusing, stood next to the stern Granny Weatherwax.

Monstrous Regiment has all good female characters. Most of them aren't very hard-boiled either.(Also look at The Watch series, The witches series, The Moist books, Pyramids, and the Death series for good female characters.)
I think he is better at female characters than you say. He probably finds stereotypical female characters boring, so he shies away from that. I know I find them boring.

UGH! Monstrous Regiment and Equal Rites are the ONLY books I haven't read more than once. Okay, and Wintersmith, because it turned out to be a kid-friendly book.

 

[Doug]

I've got pretty much all of the books, Terry Pratchet is a good comedy fiction writer... "Interesting Times" is the funniest book of all time.

Same here - about the only ones I don't have are the plays and such.

ALthough he's rubbish at creating well liked "female" characters, Angua's the only good girl he's managed to create, and she's a werewolf. Its like he's the Anti Joss Whedan.

Well... true, I suppose. I think its because he has a penis. Tends to make it harder to get into the female mindset with one of those hanging around.

The problem with his female characters tends to be pretty hard boiled. Though Nanna Ogg is amusing, stood next to the stern Granny Weatherwax.

Monstrous Regiment has all good female characters. Most of them aren't very hard-boiled either.(Also look at The Watch series, The witches series, The Moist books, Pyramids, and the Death series for good female characters.)
I think he is better at female characters than you say. He probably finds stereotypical female characters boring, so he shies away from that. I know I find them boring.

True, I'd forgotten about that one. Even the Igorina was better written than the typical member of her male counterparts .

And yeah, he avoids the typical stereotyped female, but he ends up creating his own stereotype of female if you see what I mean, heh.

 

[coldfrog]

This came along just as I was making a list of the books I didn't have for the holidays this year. (For the record, I am missing 6, or possibly 5 because I SWORE I had Reaper Man, but never mind).

The thing I find amazing is how he combines a satire of fantasy (which admittedly is much less now than it was in the earlier books) and a satire of real life while still making the characters likable and interesting. My favorites would probably have to be The Color of Magic, Small Gods Thief of Time, Night Watch, and Going Postal. But really, that's just because I've read many of these recently. I seriously love the Moist character in Going Postal and was quite disappointed with what happened in Making Money.

Spoiler

With Moist as the sort of anti-hero, what made Going Postal so fantastic was that his opponent, Reacher Gilt, was both an equal match for him, and an interesting character to boot. In Making Money the main villain, while amusing, is so weak and provides absolutely no foil or threat to Moist and I felt this made the book really weak. That is, in comparison to his other books, which is still better than a lot.

In any case, hooray for Discworld!

 

[CIA]

True, I'd forgotten about that one. Even the Igorina was better written than the typical member of her male counterparts .

And yeah, he avoids the typical stereotyped female, but he ends up creating his own stereotype of female if you see what I mean, heh.

True, but in Monstrous Regiment I felt that he was trying to move away from that. He does tend to write forceful female leads, but there are some exceptions that make for great characters, Angura for instance. She is always being indecisive about something, and that makes her a better character overall.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

I have enjoyed every Terry Prachet novel I've read thus far,

"Nightwatch" is probably the most moving though, I was choked up at the end of that one.