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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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DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/04/2007 21:14

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

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.

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:16

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

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.

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!

motherinferior · 23/04/2007 21:18

Moo, why dontcha try Weird Sisters?

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).

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

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:25

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fennel · 23/04/2007 21:25

Weird sisters

haven't read them all though, only a few.

roisin · 23/04/2007 21:27

I liked Small Gods.
I also particularly liked one of the more recent ones about journalism, but I can't remember what it was called. Something Times I think?

I think the more knowledge/experience you have of a particular 'world', the more you appreciate the humour as Pratchett deconstructs and reconstructs the setting.

MrsApron · 23/04/2007 21:29

Weird sisters is a good shout for starter Pratchett.

Not hugely taken with The Monstrous Regiment here. I like lots of Vimes and Vetinari in my favs.

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:30

Roisin - that would be The Truth.

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:31

not sure about thud tho

GreebosWhiskers · 23/04/2007 21:32

My dad got Thud! the boardgame off my brother for xmas. I was so jealous but my poor dad has no-one to play it with him 'cos my mum's not interested.

I said if I get it I'll play him by email like Vetinari & Lady Margalotta playing by clacks lol.

fransmom · 23/04/2007 21:33

lol

RustyBear · 23/04/2007 22:12

Swizzler, when I said 'Could it have been Interesting Times? I meant fransmums question about Rincewind & Two-Flower facing the guards, not the vegemite
I do realise I was not very clear ........

agnesnitt · 24/04/2007 09:49

I always suggest people start with Mort, excellent introductory book

The TwoFlower and Rincewind v the Guards is definitely Interesting Times.

I really wish I could track the rest of my books down. I'm having a neeeeed for Pyramids, Small Gods, The Truth and Going Postal!

Ack!

Agnes

cornflakegirl · 24/04/2007 12:47

The characterisation definitely isn't as developed in the first few books. Granny Weatherwax is just a nasty old crone, for example. I think TP has described it somewhere as the characters having alternate histories...

And there was a real dip in the series, for a few books, as Swizzler said - around Men at Arms iirc? I nearly gave up reading him - but I'm so glad I didn't.

I haven't come across Tiffany, but I really like the idea of HP with an editor! Can anyone tell me more?

agnesnitt · 24/04/2007 13:11

The Tiffany Aching books (Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith) are a set of Disc based books for slightly younger readers. They are centred on the life of one young Tiffany Aching, who enters into apprenticeship with Witches through some rather odd events involving her brother and the Nac Mac Feegle. It seems to be his new vehicle for the witches seeing as the newer 'adult' Discworld books are focusing more on Ankh Morpork and so on.

Well worth a read, even if they are for 'younger' readers

Agnes

Swizzler · 24/04/2007 13:49

The nac mac feegle did begin in another book - Carpe Jugulum? Anyway, the Tiffany books are great.

agnesnitt · 24/04/2007 14:23

The Nac Mac Feegle first emerged in Lords and Ladies I think.

Agnes

EachPeachPearPlum · 24/04/2007 14:35

I love all the witch ones. I can't remember the names of the books, but I just think Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are so funny! I think Jingo was my least favourite.

Twiglett · 24/04/2007 14:38

Love the witches and the guards

I suppose my favourite is the one with "I'm on a mission from Glod" in it .. is it Soul Music?

My least favourite would have to be Monstrous Regiment I thought it tried too hard

Blandmum · 24/04/2007 14:41

I wasn't that fond of monstrous regement either.

Which was the one with the Gollum in in?
I Love the characters in the Watch