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Terry Pratchett fans...come on, I know you're there!

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hunkermunker · 05/08/2005 22:28

Show yourselves!

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Twiglett · 06/08/2005 15:48

(I knew you would be too ya big ball of cheese )

edam · 06/08/2005 15:22

Twiglett, for some reason I just knew you'd be a Pratchett fan. A woman of taste, obviously. And you are quite right about Only You Can Save Mankind, fab book.

Isn't there a character called Coddy, somewhere?

Twiglett · 06/08/2005 14:52

I even read Terry Pratchett's book for kids and enjoy them enough to do it more than once .. 'only you can save mankind' is great

SoupDragon · 06/08/2005 14:06

Oook!

weesaidie · 06/08/2005 13:41

HM - isn't that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? (also good)

lucy5 · 06/08/2005 13:34

i'm a fan although i havent read much lately, my last was wee free men!

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hunkermunker · 06/08/2005 13:33

Yes, definitely - there are some lovely bits in it. Like the chap that liked making Norway, because of the fiddly fjords!

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weesaidie · 06/08/2005 13:32

I read Diggers and Strata which I liked but not as much as his other stuff. With Strata you really see where the foundations of his discworld style came from which is pretty cool.

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hunkermunker · 06/08/2005 13:25

Have you read Truckers, Diggers and Wings? Or Strata or whatever the other one's called?

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hunkermunker · 06/08/2005 13:25

GGG, fab!

Catbert, love the "that doesn't work" on the Discworld games - think that to myself , complete with "OMG, you're SO stupid to even think of that" tone of voice when I'm trying something eminently daft

I love the Listeners - who can only pass when they can tell which side up a coin has landed by listening to it!

The man is a genius. And Good Omens is SO good - I have two copies of it somehow - one cheapo one from a charity shop that I bought because I thought I'd lost my first one and was scared! Love that there's always a copy of Bohemian Rhapsody in every car

(Twiglett - phew )

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edam · 06/08/2005 13:22

I didn't really like Hat Full of Sky. Probably because it doesn't have any of the familiar characters, IIRC.

gigglinggoblin · 06/08/2005 13:07

guards guards is on radio 7 atm, can listen any time here (or record it to listen to later if you are a clever techy type)

weesaidie · 06/08/2005 13:02

Love love love him!

I read Good Omens which is fantastic (Neil Gaimans Neverwhere is good too) and then got into the discworld.

Love death and the witches of course also Ridcully! Also what are those wee blue men called? They are very funny.

I can't remember which book it is but there is a note that says something like, up in the hills there was a monastery of cool in which the novices final test was to go into a room full of clothes and asked what the coolest thing to wear is. The correct answer being, 'whatever I pick out dude.'

Brilliant.

fairydust · 06/08/2005 13:01

dh brought me "A Hat Full of Sky" to read this morning as i was moaning i'd got nothing to read - has anyone read this?

Catbert · 06/08/2005 12:54

Oh. Total fans here too.

Good Omens was the first Pratchett book we read in this household, and now we're firm fans. Now all the most recent novels are hardbacks, cause you just can't go waiting around for the paperbacks to come out can you?

Never got the hang of "Thud" as a game, but it's a very attractive thing to have hanging around although we've had to temporarily put it away because of small children about...

Have you all played all the discworld PC adventure games too? Most excellent fun! (Although the first one is now so incredibly dated, and you have to run it in "DOS" mode!!!! "That Doesn't Work" a la Eric Idle.

Death has got to be the best character ever!

And I really liked the animated versions of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music.(although there were very mixed reviews). Have the cassettes and CDs of the spoken book versions. Oh - and the illustrated books and maps too...

Do I qualify to join then?

Twiglett · 06/08/2005 12:40

(I meant hence my Glod quote .. not hence death

Twiglett · 06/08/2005 12:38

my first and sometimes favourite was Soul Music hence .. love Death (and like Susan by extension ) .. I've always loved the author blurb myself 'Terry Pratchett was born in dumpty-dumpty-2 and is not dead yet'

(HM .. I'm making jokes of it too ... well your bits are funny aren't they? ... please don't blush .. I much prefer that approach)

triceratops · 06/08/2005 08:13

Have you read "Good Omens" which is TP and Neil Gaiman (who writes sandman comics)? It is one of my favorite books. I love the dog in it. I may have to go and read a bit now.

Oh and the bit when asreal is pissed and giggling about gorillas in nests made me laugh so much (on a lilo next to a pool in Corfu) that someone asked me if I was alright.

stitch · 06/08/2005 00:27

i love terry pratchett. the man just gets better and better with each book.

BadHair · 06/08/2005 00:24

How weird! I was only thinking of the Luggage when trying to pack a bag earlier today.
Might re-read the Discworld novels to fill some of the gap until JK Rowling delivers.

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hunkermunker · 05/08/2005 23:37

LOL! Yes, fab idea!

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edam · 05/08/2005 23:34

Do you think Terry should be very, very afraid? Maybe we should have an MN flashmob at a signing somewhere...

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hunkermunker · 05/08/2005 23:25

Oh, we're hardline TP fans, Edam Not for the maybes, this clique

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edam · 05/08/2005 23:24

God, a Pratchett clique of women who are prepared to sacrifice their babies' behinds in the search for truth, dignity and the Ankh-morporkian way.... what a frightening prospect we are!

Ladymuck · 05/08/2005 22:58

Just buy the nappies when you get there...

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