Any other Discworld fans?

[YunoYurbubson]

I am surely not the only one on Mumsnet?

I've just finished the newest Tiffany Aching one. It wasn't on a par with his best, but I loved parts of it. It made me realise what a huge fan of women TP is; strong women abound in his books. I shall look forward to encouraging my daughter to read them.

Here's a question: in your head, who plays the characters in the books? I recently realised that my Granny Weatherwax is played by Maggie Smith (in my head, I'm not sure if a film would really be a good idea).

Has anyone read Nation? What did you think? Very different...

Agree about David Jason - Rincewind is a young, unqualified wizzard, with the ability to run away very fast. Not a portly OAP.

Yes, I always saw Rincewind as been young, I imagine that blond lad from The Office/Pirates of The Carribean would be good playing him.

From wikipedia

"Rincewind's age is indeterminate, although the first two books describe him as being young. This is further complicated by cover paintings on some of the books themselves, some of which show him being young, others old, and comments made by Death about Rincewind's life-timer. Every living being on the Disc has an hourglass, usually kept in Death's home, that gradually records his life from birth to death. Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it.

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thanks, will visit the library and search through.

I lived Nation. I thought it was clever. You know what I think TP's secret is? He makes me feel clever when I read his books.

Viva, that's pretty good casting IMO.

And the games and graphic novels don't count, because Rincewind jumps straight out of TPs pen (or computer I suppose) and into my head. Anything else is just somebody else's subjective (and inaccurate) interpretation... and that's the explanation I'm sticking too.

Nanny Ogg is a female version of Warren Clarke for instance.

I've just finished Monstrous Regiment for the umpteenth time, brilliant brilliant book

My 21st birthday party was a Discworld fancy dress, and that was (gulp!) 26 years ago. God I'm old. I went as Magrat.

Pyramids is my all-time favourite and I have a copy signed by the man himself!

I still love Terry Pratchett. Such a shame about his Altzheimers, but he's going wonderful things for the cause.

I've always had a thinner Miriam Margolyes as Nanny Ogg

strong women abound in his books

indeed!

I think Granny Weatherwax is fatter than Maggie Smith though. Maybe it's just the face that needs to be rounder

I imagine her as an older Julia Mackenzie I think.

i always dreamed of being nanny ogg but fear im more a granny weatherwax

I thought that I had made Sam Vines look like Pete Postlethwaite in my head - and then I read "Where's my Cow"
ds started reading Pratchett when he was about 10 and thoroughly enjoyed them - then he re-read them when he was 18 and got so much more out of them!

I think Granny Weatherwax is fatter than Maggie Smith though. Maybe it's just the face that needs to be rounder

oh no! she should be spare and decidedly 'craggy'.

Ooh, yes to Rhys Ifans and Miriam Margolyes. And the actress who plays Alice in Vicar of Dibley for Magrat.

Me too . Have read them all in order, as they came out since my brother came home with The Light Fantastic.

I really enjoyed I shall.. but I love the witches stuff and the feegle

Small Gods is my favourite and a good one to start on, Pyramids is pretty good too - I was Ptraci on here for a while.

I like the Watch best of the series, but my favourite character of all is the Librarian, probably because I was once one.

I think the Tiffany Aching books are really moving out of the 'children's' genre - the first few chapters of I Shall Wear Midnight are pretty unsettling for a child...

Good Omens is brilliant. And I've not read it for years but IIRC The Unadulterated Cat is hilarious!

The Watch books are my favourites too. Sorry folks, Sam Vimes is mine (age before beauty )

I'm older than you, KurriKurri.....

I've read and re read it all, but I still adore Adam and crew in good omens.

Grimma whenever I read your posts I always picture a tiny wee mumsnetter hopping across the keyboard