Discworld

[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.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I read literally every single Discworld novel till now at least 2 times. i love them

 

[sylraiana]

VIMES!!! *Love Love Love* Really, the whole of the guard is amazing, though I also loved Teppec and Moist. And then, well, yeah, because I'm a girl. Polly.

Monsterous Regiment was my first Pratchett ever, so I love that one. Though the Guard books are by far the best in the series

I've got a special shelve above my desk for my Discworld collection. (I've got every one of them in pocket version, 'cept for the very last, which isn't in pocket until June or something)

 

[TheGreatGonzo26]

Carpe Jugular was mine. And Maskerade because it poked fun at the Phantom of the Opera. Honestly, I think I'm going to start from the beginning and read them all.

 

[Plumpdragon]

Read just about all Discworld novels, "Going postal" and "Making money" being my fave ones.

Another book to recommend to Pratchett fans is "Strata" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_%28novel%29 a very funny parody he wrote of larry Niven's "Ringworld".

Though it is completely separate from the Discworld series it does mostly take place on a disc shaped planet.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Only the saddest of the sad haven't read Discworld. People who have easy access to it have no excuse, and suck.

 

[Kevvers]

Want my advice? Skip Vimes and go right into Rincewind. Rincewind is one of the most awesome characters I've ever read, at least as good as death and in some ways better. In combination (as they often are during Color of Magic) they create a comic/comic foil pair of such high caliber I've yet to see it matched in any other work of literature.

Rincewind is basically my hero.

Rincewind is awesome. I wasn't satisfied with his casting in the film. David Jason was too old and didn't capture the character well.

Agreed, I always thought of him as a younger eric idle after playing the Discworld game.
Del boy as Rincewind? "That doesn't work".

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

Huge fan of Terry Pratchett I love Thief of Time... it's my favorite.

 

[Doug]

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.

True, on all counts.

 

[lazy_bum]

I did a poll on DeviantArt and most people hadn't heard of Discworld. Oh, what a world we live in. Any fans out there?

As a child I watched Soul Music and the Wyrd Sisters cartoon, and I recently watched the films for The Colour of Magic and Hogfather. I'm now listening to the audio books...because I am lazy and don't trust myself to finish reading anything. Nigel Planer does a wonderful job with accents! I didn't recognise the actor till I checked google images and recognised him from an ep of Blackadder the Third. So far I've listened to:

The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Soul Music
Wyrd Sisters
Witches Abroad
Lords and Ladies
Carpe Jagulum

I'll get to the rest. Some I will leave for the end, like the Tiffany Aching series. Once I'm done with Susan, I'll get to work on Sam Vimes.

The audio tapes dont cut it for me, they cut and abridge the storys too much for my liking. so far i've read every single discworld novel except for a few of the extra things like nanny oggs cookbook.

 

[Jdopus]

Another huge Discworld fan, although I have to say that my favourite characters are in fact the Wizards, I enjoy all the bickering between the characters as well as the constant science references.

 

[yossarian787]

I'm a fan of Going Postal and Making Money, but they're all pretty good. Also, anything with Vimes or Rincewind in it.

My only complaint is that, when I start reading a discworld novel, I don't sleep that night, and then I don't have anything to read any more.

 

[Zagzag]

Read Gaurds, Gaurds, its my favourite.

Strange, I didn't actually like that one. My favourite is Making Money but I've not finished Unseen Academicals yet so I can't judge!

I really love the whole series though, my absolute favourite books!

 

[ben---neb]

He and Iain (M.) Banks are my two favourite writers. His older books weren't that good, but the newer books are just awesome. "Thief of Time" is probably my favourite at the time. Gotta read "The Truth" soon.

Thief of Time, ah, brilliant, excellent, wonderful, love it, it wins best Discworld novel hands down. Although I do quite like Mort, The Last Continent, Jingo, most of the witches ones, the first two, Interesting Times...ok, I like them all.

 

[AplChild]

Reaper man was my favourite.
Fith elephant stands out too. Discworld does rock =D