Discworld

[Disco110]

Prattchet is my all time favorite writer, fantasticly funny and a real spin on classic storytelling and literature, but he cal also be very profound and blunt, much like Dougles Adams . he has created his own universe in which he can anything he wants to, which gives so much poetic and comedic licence its untrue. for evidence on this reed the reviewed discworld companion, basicly a list of all the stuff in his books, takes a while to reed and is imposable to remember all of it!

i'm pretty sure iv read them all twice now, and you can deffinatly see the development hes made to his writing as you go along the series. i always found the light fantastic very difficult to read, still cant remember what its about...?

my favorite discwolds are Theif of Time, mainly cos i love the idea of the history monks,
the fifth elephant, cos its good and Night Watch. but i also love Nation, good omens and of course the ledgendary "wheres my cow" which im suprised hasn't had a mention...?

best set, as in books using the watch or the UU or the whitches... hard to say, knock up between UU and the watch.

Best character, the librarian (only one mention so far?????) after that its a knock up between death, vimes, the entire faculty of UU (cos you cant seperate them out) Rincwind, Nanny Ogg, Lu Tze and Carrot. (I also have a bit of a soft spot for anything with detritus in it, Peace-maker wooo!)

Absolutly brilliant man, it will be a shame to lose him.

 

[Washboard]

Best character, the librarian (only one mention so far?????) after that its a knock up between death, vimes, the entire faculty of UU (cos you cant seperate them out) Rincwind, Nanny Ogg, Lu Tze and Carrot. (I also have a bit of a soft spot for anything with detritus in it, Peace-maker wooo!)

Absolutly brilliant man, it will be a shame to lose him.

heh, its the Piecemaker

I'd say my favorite charachters the librarian as well... possibly followed by nobby and colon/ detritus... although imo the best thing about pratchett books is that all the characters are so well built that their all good.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The Death Series [Mort, Soul Music, etc] are my favorite books but, I also loved Going Postal and, Making Money o.o

I didn't know there were cartoons but I have seen Hogfather ...

 

[gxs]

I like Detritus and Vimes.

I've read almost all the books (I can't get the last three) and watched the movie.

 

[Xhu]

Out of interest, how do the audiobooks deal with the humourous footnotes that are so common in Pratchett's works? Does the narrator skip them?

 

[grollo]

I was a big fan of the books for several years before I realised how famous they were. Then someone asked me if I had seen the movies, and I was really suprised becouse I had never heard of any movies. Now you're telling me there's cartoons and stuff too? It's just like dragonball I hate the so many were introduced by the cartoons and not the books there.

 

[Vhite]

i would like to ask if these books follow in some order or you can just pick anyone of them and read it? i was trying to get The Colour of Magic but sadly i cant get it anywhere

 

[Wicky_42]

Long time Pratchet fan here, I absolutely love pretty much all of his stuff - even managed to read one of his picture books in German ^_^

 

[Rogue 9]

I've been a huge fan of the Discworld books ever since I bought the first four in the series in compact form, second-hand, from a pottery shop on the Isle of Skye (seems like a suitably bizarre way to get into the series =P)

I had actually seen the Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music animated series' before that, and loved them, but wasn't aware that they were adaptations of books.

My favourite novels are Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant and The Last Continent in roughly that order but there hasn't been a single book I've read of Pratchett's that I haven't enjoyed, which is a lot more than I can say for most writers. I've read several of his non-Discworld books as well, and highly recommend the Johnny Maxwell trilogy (the third one is, I think, the origin of 'the trousers of time') and Carpet People if you can track them down, along with Good Omens.

 

[lewiswhitling]

He's my favorite fiction writer.. funny, but with a very real and serious core. They are also the only books I've ever read to make inroads into why a universe with magic etc. would be so recognisably similar to ours. Even if it is still making fun

 

[Platinum117]

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

 

[Vhite]

ok thanks, if i wont find it in any of local shops i may try ebay

 

[ZombieGenesis]

That's the one in which the world is carried on a turtles back, correct?
I used to think that was incredibly creative, until I found out he lifted that right out of Hindu mythology... oh writers, how you do like to pilfer.

 

[figment of mind]

I love Mort but my favorite Pratchett book is called Good Omens which he co-authored with Neil Gaiman. I hadn't laughed like that in ages, awesome book!.

True that. Personally, my favorite of the Discworld series is Men at arms. It's just a wonderfully interesting book(If you don't know about it it's about captian vimes and corporal carrot dealing with an assassin who has the first gun in discworld).

Others that i've read:
Wyrd sisters
Mort
Carpe Lugulum(or however you spell it)
Sourcery

 

[Thwarted]

love em all. night watch is my favourite. love commander Vimes

 

[Disco110]

hehe thanks for the spelling correction, now i remember, hes so good a the portmanto jokes.
almost forgot about nobby and colon (!) if thats possable, and i like angua too.

also, one of my favorite quotes
Carrot: why is he called Gavin?
Angua: He once ate someone called Gavin.