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Whats your favorite and least favourite Discworld book?

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StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 23/04/2007 10:19

Following on from other Discworld thread.

My favourite is Reaperman. Least favourite is Moving Pictures.

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fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:25

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pooka · 23/04/2007 21:22

Favourites are Guards: Guards, Weird Sisters and Reaperman
Least are Soul Music and the ones with the wee free men

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:20

Or if you really don't want to read them all Reaper Man might be a good one-off as I think Death is about the only recurring character in it (apart from the Auditors who don't really count lol).

motherinferior · 23/04/2007 21:18

Moo, why dontcha try Weird Sisters?

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:18

I'd personally say start at the beginning with The Colour of Magic as a lot of the books refer to characters & events from other books. BUT as I said I don't think the earlier books are quite as good so bear in mind that they do just get better & better!

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:16

Yeah you can buy Where's My Cow? It has the full story & the artwork is fab. I got mine in Waterstones but Amazon would prob be cheaper.

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:16

well ladies i referred drmarthamcmoo here, any suggestions????//

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:15

I've got the Feeglespotting T-shirt from Paul Kidby's site here . I'm hoping dh will take the hint & buy me the Greebo one as well.

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/04/2007 21:14

OK - so if I started with Pratchett - which book would I start with?

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:14

can you get where's my cow?

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:11

I love all the Guards ones, especially Thud!. I'm not so into the earlier ones - they've definitely improved with age. I laugh out loud at all of them even tho' I've read all at least 10 times each & some like Men At Arms & The Fifth Elephant have made me cry too.

Dh & I went to see a production of Mort at the Edinburgh festival a few years ago & I kept staring at a guy in the audience just a few seats along who was a dead ringer for Terry Pratchett. Dh kept telling me to stop it as there was no way it could be him then when we got home we read in the paper that Terry was actually in Edinburgh that weekend to give a reading at the book festival so you never know . . . Wish I'd just gone up to him and asked now.

Sadly I'm not having much luck persuading my 2 teenage dds to give discworld a go but 2 year old dd3 loves Where's My Cow? & lucky ds has his first discworld experience still to come

DontlookatmeImshy · 23/04/2007 21:11

I think Reaperman is my fave discworld although it's so long since i read some of them i can't remember which is which.

Also like Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegle

Crivens!!!

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:09

must read my dw books again!

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 21:07

Where's my daddy?
Is that my daddy?
He says Buggrit Millennium hand and shrimp
He is Foul Ole Ron!
That's not my daddy!

must stop now

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:07

dp loves vimes sarcasm

Blandmum · 23/04/2007 21:04

That was the last continent (I think)

Love the three tramps , foul ol ron etc all.

Love Vimes I think he is my fav character.

I think Guards, guards is probably my favorate. With the million to one shot shot. And the temple of the elucidadte bretherin.

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 21:03

Vimes is an inspired character. Loved the idea of a copper's AA meeting: 'My name's Sam Vimes and I'm a suspicious bastard'

motherinferior · 23/04/2007 21:02

I actually really don't like that one with the Luggage and the priests going to Fourecks, whatever it's called.

Most of the Vimes/Carrot/Angua ones are fabulous. I feel Ankh-Morpork is very probably my spiritual home.

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 21:00

Like Harry Potter with an editor

colditz · 23/04/2007 21:00

I really enjoyed Small Gods, but find The Colour of Magic quite dull. I love the Tiffany books. Like Harry Potter for girls.

tigerschick · 23/04/2007 20:59

Not read many but loved Reaper Man.
Haven't read enough to have a least fav tho.

Blandmum · 23/04/2007 20:58

I rather like Moving Pictures, and loved ll the 'in' jokes

Didn't like last continent

fransmom · 23/04/2007 20:58

will have to dig all my dw books out fo storage now - we had to decant from bookshelf once dd crawling as it was a bit unstable

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 20:57

LC has vegemite
IT has, er, cherry blossom

RustyBear · 23/04/2007 20:56

Or could it have been Interesting Times?