Discworld

[Thijsterhaar]

Loved & finished both PC games and read about the first 20 books.

 

[Clashero]

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.

No no no! Nononono! Do NOT leave Sam Vimes for the end! READ THE GUARD SERIES NOW!

On topic, my favourites are probably Maskerade (lovely parody of Phantom of the Opera, and opera in general), The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch and Mort.

 

[historybuff]

Pratchett is epic. I love the books about DEATH and the Night Watch

 

[SnipErlite]

How can people not know Discworld - it's only possibly the best book series ever......

Loved Mort, am currently about half way through the series

=]

 

[C-Wizzle]

I couldn't agree more, I mean Rincewind is light and spry and David Jason, while a great comedy actor, isn't. They should have got someone younger like Russle Brand maybe...

 

[Reaperman64]

Good choice OP and awesome avatar also

Ive read all but two of terry prattchets books and there all wonderfull, even his worst books ( Monstrous regiment, unseen academicals ) are really good.

Sam vimes is my favorite charecter although theif of time is my favourite book

Enjoy!

 

[Lord George]

Yup love him, I've read every book so far and I'm in the process of reading Unseen Academcials.

 

[jarate]

The Sam Vimes books are the best.
Especially Night Watch.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

I don't read unless I must...sorry.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

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.

I'm listening to the unabridged audio books, not the abridged ones.

 

[SnakeF]

Discworld is probably the greatest series I have ever read, I especially love the Night Watch novels and I quite enjoy any book with the Unseen University wizards as main characters.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

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.

No no no! Nononono! Do NOT leave Sam Vimes for the end! READ THE GUARD SERIES NOW!

On topic, my favourites are probably Maskerade (lovely parody of Phantom of the Opera, and opera in general), The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch and Mort.

I'm not leaving him for last, don't worry ^^0 Tiffany Aching I'm leaving for last. Sam will be the next series I follow.

 

[Doug]

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...

Chances are you're more about the fantasy than the political satire. I'm the other way around, though I wouldn't invert your trend, I think it's a lot more random...

Indeed - I personally think the first 2 or 3 books where the worst. Too genre fantasy to me. Fortunately, his work improved greatly over time.

EDIT: Actually, tell a lie, "The Carpet People" was a great book I rented from the library and was his first work, so I'm told. Definitely worth a read if you like Discworld. "Strata" and "Dark Side of the Sun" are also good, but again, more generic sci-ish, but Terry does have some interesting thoughts in them that make them worth reading.

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

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

Reaper Man is my favorite, too. Some of the best lines I can think of came out of that one.

 

[Doug]

Seriously, am I the only one who's read the Carpet people as well? Well, now I'm a sad panda.

 

[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...

Chances are you're more about the fantasy than the political satire. I'm the other way around, though I wouldn't invert your trend, I think it's a lot more random...

I agree entirely. I'm a fantasy nut. An exception to my earlier premise is, any book involving that bad ass, rapist cat who is owned by the most crotchety of the 3 witches, wins.

He's hilarious.

 

[TheMatt]

I agree entirely. I'm a fantasy nut. An exception to my earlier premise is, any book involving that bad ass, rapist cat who is owned by the most crotchety of the 3 witches, wins.

He's hilarious.

Greebo! He's so cool. Particularly in Maskerade.

That the one where he became human for a while? He was at a party and all the chicks wanted to shag him due to his "animal magnetism" or some such? Yah, good book.