Saddest Terry Pratchett Discworld book

Keen discworld follower here. I know Shepherds crown would be the last Tiffany book but was still surprised that he killed off Granny Weatherwax after threatening to polish her off a good few years before writing the book.
The book which upset me the most was Nation At the end I wanted the book to end happily and It didn,t I was so upset.

I was watching The Colour of Magic on DVD a few days ago!!

Granny dies, is the one that provokes the most tears in me.

Well that is a spoiler alert! I have not read them all yet!!!!

Oh, i had genuinely blanked out that bit with the coffins in Nation.
And now i’m 38 weeks pregnant and genuinely crying to myself on the sofa thinking about it. Gah.

Nation always makes me howl tbh , so much that I don't read it as much. The start with her wanting to put the baby in with her mother so the baby isn't on their own starts me off, and it goes from there

I cried when Gavin died and gaspode howled too. Shepherds crown was heartbreaking knowing it was the last. The fact Terry asked for his hard drive with all his ideas and half finished books to be steam rolled gets to me too

Shepherd's Crown, in part because of Granny but mainly because it is a farewell to all of Discworld.

Also if I can go outside Discworld, Nation, its a story about identity and memory and I have always felt it was a response to his diagnosis.

Night Watch. The bit where Vimes finds the torture victims...

I think Death would be an interesting character study if you're doing a project on empathy though.

This thread is making me cry But I am 40+6 weeks pregnant and I miss Terry!!

They're both fab, to be fair 😁 I know it's Jingo because it's one of my favourites so I've read it quite a few times...

@LBOCS2 ah thanks! I did have an argument with myself about which book of the two it was

Agree with all the above, but would also put a vote in for Detritus holding his dwarf friend’s helmet and staring at it at the end of Men at Arms, and Reaper Man - both the little girl living on “borrowed time” and Death looking for the perfect gift and taking Miss Flitworth dancing before she realises she’s died.

The disorganised organiser is from Jingo - one Vimes gets on the boat to rescue Angua, the other stays behind.

The Shepherd's Crown still makes me sob, every time I read it.

Yes, I would go along with Night Watch, but would also put in a word for Reaper Man : ‘ What can the harvest hope for but the care of the reaper man?’

I haven’t read Shepherd’s Crown yet either. My dd1 has. I need to read all the Tiffany Aching books again from the start but I still can’t bring myself to read Shepherd’s Crown.

Also think Snuff and Thud are tremendously sad. I think Vimes is my favourite character.

Shepherds Crown for sure. It was a goodbye to Terry Pratchett for me and is the one book I can't bring myself to reread.

I agree with all of the above! There's one moment in Men at Arms that always gets me too; when Cuddy has been killed and Detritus is just sitting there holding the helmet he'd made to help him... That picture of big, tough Detritus bent over something his friend had made him breaks my heart!

Night watch and Shepherd's crown. Mainly for reasons already given.

Also agree somewhat with Thud and Snuff.

The watch are my favourite subset of books, followed by the Witches (including Tiffany's series)

They're all very thought provoking.

Agree about Nightwatch. The audiobook read by Tony Robinson when the dis-organiser's imp reads off the to do list;

"...Seven eh em...Organize Defenders at River Gate...Seven twenty-five...Hand-to-Hand Fighting in Peach Pie Street...Seven forty-eight eight eight...Rally Survivors in Sator Square...Things To Do Today: Build Build Build Barricades...bingeley...Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom...Eight oh three eh em...Death of Sergeant Detritus...Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds...Death of Constable Visit...Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds...Death of death of death of...Death of Constable Dorfl...Eight oh three eh em and fourteenteenteen seconds...Death of Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson...beep...beep...Things To Do Today: Die..."

The Vimes books are all really moving, he is my favorite character and I love the way he develops through the books. I have memories of Monstrous regiment being quite sad but I'm afraid I can't remember which bit. May be time for a re read!

Shepherds Crown was intensely sad for me as it was so tied up with TPs death and my own mums dementia so I'm not sure its the book implicitly.
Snuff and the goblins, Monstrous Regiment with the girls histories and Nightwatch are prob saddest for me. But TP wove empathy into all his books, we feel for the vampires, the trolls, the beggars and the clowns. Everyone has a story, and a life bigger than their public face - even Death himself

Thud, not thus ffs.

Thus makes me cry as well, when he's underground and can't get to his son to read his bedtime story. It ought to be ridiculous, but it isn't.

Nightwatch, when young Sam is commenting on the all the little angels song.

"That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
"It's an old soldiers' song," he said.
"Really, sarge? But it's about angels."
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will."