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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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ellceeell · 23/04/2007 10:34

I loved Moving Pictures - but I'd just done a course on the early years of Hollywood so I "got" a lot of jokes I wouldn't have understood otherwise. Whereas Soul Music I found quite difficult to laugh at as I'm not that interested in music (although I did get some of the jokes, I'm sure I missed many more!)

clerkKent · 23/04/2007 12:51

DS and I started discworld last year - we are only about one-third of the way through. Some are slower than others, but none deserve less than 7/10.

cornflakegirl · 23/04/2007 13:52

My favourite is Small Gods, which was the first one I ever read. Don't really like the very early ones.

agnesnitt · 23/04/2007 20:46

Favourite is Pyramids.

Least favourite I would say is either Moving Pictures or Jingo.

Depends on how I feel at the time. Right now I'd edge more towards it being Moving Pictures.

Agnes

fransmom · 23/04/2007 20:50

i can't remember the title but one scene had rincewind and the tourist facing soem guards(?) and his battle cry was "erm, excuse me!" had me rofl in stitches for a full ten minutes and i couldn't explain to my mom why i was laughing without cracking up again

please someone tell me the title.

i have terry pratchett's signature in one of my dw books. blasted post-natal memory (which, sadly, has not improved over the 2years) now cannot remember which book!

what other dw thread????

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 20:51

Loved Going Postal. He went through a bit of a dip, but lots of the latest ones are fab

The Tiffany Aching ones are great as well

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 20:52

Light Fantastic? Or the colour of magic? Can't remember which

RustyBear · 23/04/2007 20:55

Favourite: Small Gods just gets it from Carpe Jugulum and Monstrous Regiment
Least favourite: Moving Pictures, but I'm not that keen on The Last Continent, though the vegemite recipe does go a long way to redeeming it....

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 20:56

Monstrous Regiment was v good too

RustyBear · 23/04/2007 20:56

Or could it have been Interesting Times?

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 20:57

LC has vegemite
IT has, er, cherry blossom

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

Blandmum · 23/04/2007 20:58

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

Didn't like last continent

tigerschick · 23/04/2007 20:59

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

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.

Swizzler · 23/04/2007 21:00

Like Harry Potter with an editor

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 21:03

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'

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.

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:07

dp loves vimes sarcasm

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 21:09

must read my dw books again!

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!!!

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

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:14

can you get where's my cow?