Whats your favorite and least favourite Discworld book?

I'm with Twiglett - the witches ones and the guards ones are my favourites. DH is the major fan in this house, but I am reading some of the ones I missed just now. But come on girls what about "Equal Rites"?!!! That's my personal favourite. I know it so well that I took it with me to listen to in childbirth - enough fun and plot to distract me, but knowing it so well I could miss bits when the contractions got a bit heavy - all three of my children were born with Equal Rites on in the background!

Actually I'd have to add Pyramids to my list just because of the names Djelibeybi and Ptraci

Does anyone else have a bit of a 'thing' for Sam Vimes, or is it just me?

I love the bit at the end of Night Watch - another one that had me with a lump in my throat - when Vimes is on the broomstick behind Ridcully, starkers

Anything with Sam Vimes, probably the one where he's chased by werewolves. Small Gods is very good though, kind of a book apart from your average Discworld book, much deeper, less spoofy.

Don't like the Rincewind ones, I find him tiresome and tiring, all that relentless action.

I watched 'I Robot' the other day and finally twigged that Feet of Clay is spoof of that .

I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of them but my favourite book is Interestin Times - fave character though is Otto the reformed vampire when he smells blood - " Oh no, vot must you be zinking of me"....and singing that ridiculous Temperance song - have forgotten where he turns up first....

Oz as in Oz, not Australia, that is. Witches Abroad, that's the one.

There is a gollum, briefly, in that one where the witches go on a journey - which one is it? The Oz one. Rather fab, it is.

I do however own many Pratchett style posting names .. and will consider auctioning them off to the highest bidder

Feet of Clay for the Golem, and they reappeared in Going Postal

Agnes

I wasn't that fond of monstrous regement either.

Which was the one with the Gollum in in?
I Love the characters in the Watch

Love the witches and the guards

I suppose my favourite is the one with "I'm on a mission from Glod" in it .. is it Soul Music?

My least favourite would have to be Monstrous Regiment I thought it tried too hard

I love all the witch ones. I can't remember the names of the books, but I just think Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are so funny! I think Jingo was my least favourite.

The Nac Mac Feegle first emerged in Lords and Ladies I think.

Agnes

The nac mac feegle did begin in another book - Carpe Jugulum? Anyway, the Tiffany books are great.

The Tiffany Aching books (Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith) are a set of Disc based books for slightly younger readers. They are centred on the life of one young Tiffany Aching, who enters into apprenticeship with Witches through some rather odd events involving her brother and the Nac Mac Feegle. It seems to be his new vehicle for the witches seeing as the newer 'adult' Discworld books are focusing more on Ankh Morpork and so on.

Well worth a read, even if they are for 'younger' readers

Agnes

The characterisation definitely isn't as developed in the first few books. Granny Weatherwax is just a nasty old crone, for example. I think TP has described it somewhere as the characters having alternate histories...

And there was a real dip in the series, for a few books, as Swizzler said - around Men at Arms iirc? I nearly gave up reading him - but I'm so glad I didn't.

I haven't come across Tiffany, but I really like the idea of HP with an editor! Can anyone tell me more?

I always suggest people start with Mort, excellent introductory book

The TwoFlower and Rincewind v the Guards is definitely Interesting Times.

I really wish I could track the rest of my books down. I'm having a neeeeed for Pyramids, Small Gods, The Truth and Going Postal!

Ack!

Agnes

Swizzler, when I said 'Could it have been Interesting Times? I meant fransmums question about Rincewind & Two-Flower facing the guards, not the vegemite
I do realise I was not very clear ........

lol

My dad got Thud! the boardgame off my brother for xmas. I was so jealous but my poor dad has no-one to play it with him 'cos my mum's not interested.

I said if I get it I'll play him by email like Vetinari & Lady Margalotta playing by clacks lol.

not sure about thud tho

Roisin - that would be The Truth.

Weird sisters is a good shout for starter Pratchett.

Not hugely taken with The Monstrous Regiment here. I like lots of Vimes and Vetinari in my favs.

I liked Small Gods.
I also particularly liked one of the more recent ones about journalism, but I can't remember what it was called. Something Times I think?

I think the more knowledge/experience you have of a particular 'world', the more you appreciate the humour as Pratchett deconstructs and reconstructs the setting.

Weird sisters

haven't read them all though, only a few.