Terry Pratchett fans - ideas for a book for my DP

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DP loves Terry Pratchett books so thought I'd him get one for christmas but I'm a bit bemused by just how many books he's written! DP seems to have about ten books (all part of something called Discworld?). I've like to get him a book that isn't part of a series so he can read it on its own - does anyone have any recommendations? I've looked on Amazon and there are so many recent titles and I can't work out whether they're part of a series or not!

Good Omens is excellent and not part of the Discworld.

or you could get Diggers/truckers/Wings trilogy.

Or the Science of the Discworld which is more scientific (hence the title), and not actually a discworld novel, more relating the discworld to scientific laws.

there is a fairly new one out as thats what dh wants for xmas..will ask him tonight.

HIs best recent ones are Discworld - Going Postal (excellent) and Thud. GP prob more or less stand alone though. You don;t have to read all teh DW ones in order, though it helps to know who the main characters are.

echo what Belgo says, but there are lots of merchandise around the discworld novels - you could get him so much stuff that's not actually a book.

There are some ideas here

(and if you get him something that he turns out not to like, I'll have it )

there's a new one called 'Making Money' that's discworld

Making Money a sequel to Goign Postal and not as good IMO

Thank you! I'd quite like to get a fairly recent one as I'm not completely sure which ones DP already has. I've checked our bookcases and there are the Discworld ones but I have a feeling he has more in boxes that we haven't unpacked since we moved!

i haven't read it yet effieperine.

I think the discworld books should be reas in order and I am about two books behind

If anyone wants it CAT me as am happy to bung it in the post - I'm unlikely to re-read it and I need to free up some book space!

that's a nice offer effieperine - I would take you up on it but my dad buys all the discworld novels and I steal them off him

ohh effie I might take you up as we are skint

You'd be v welcome - it's a hardback and I don't think I've spilt any coffee on it

There are also various spinoffs - such as diaries, maps, artwork Nanny Oggs cookbook & a cardboard model to make of the Unseen University
This site has some of them listed.

See I couldn't stand good omens but loved the toehr ones LOL_ I like Tom Holt as a non pratchett foray into other stuff

Agree with Effies you canr ead them out of sequence- DH started on them this year and hasnt read them all in order, but is loving them now

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You could always buy him a first edition, obviously not one of the old ones but maybe one of the newer ones. Then even if he has it, it'll grow in value.

the very, very best one to read is 'Guards, Guards'.

very funny, funnier than the earlier ones

If he hasn't got that one, get it for him!

I really enjoyed Guards! Guards!

And Moving Pictures

And Maurice And His Educated Rodents

The Tiffany books are nice ... but young. Teen and preteen girls would enjoy them (as do I)

I found The Last Continent hilarious. And Small Gods.

I reckon you can read any of the discworld ones independently.

Thud is excellent as is going postal, and they are both recent so he may be less likely to have them already, but my all time favourite is probably thief of time (but then I've been over exposed to the kind of martial arts bs that it takes the piss of)

Most of the discworld books stand alone. They just get funnier as you get more of the 'in' jokes the more books you read, but there's no particular order to read them in. I adore all the discworld books and have read all of them many times [geek emoticon] but I'm not much of a fan of Pratchett's non-discworld stuff. Just not as clever or funny in my opinion.

If you really really can't work out what DP has already read, so can't get a discworld book without risk of duplication, I'd go for a different author.

For a TP fan would recommend Tom Holt (as someone already said) - The Portable Door is a good place to start, as it's the first of a trollogy, or for a stand-alone Tom Holt I'd recommend Expecting Someone Taller or Valhalla.

Robert Rankin is another brilliant one for a TP fan. Try A Dog Called Demolition.

Or Jasper Fford? I think Lost In a Good Book was the first, but I haven't checked that.

And the best Discworld Book ever written was Pyramids. Or Small Gods. Or... oh they're all good .

Sorry, just wanted to agree with previous poster that Making Money is not as good as Going postal which is ace. Also avoid Monstrous Regiment like the plague as it is the one truly awful one in my opinion.

I think men like the guards ones best, so Thud would be the latest and then Night watch (excellent) and the Fifth Elephant before these. Some book stores keep autographed copies from when the suthor visits the store and these make it a bit more special, a chain like Waterstones would normally have one knocking around, or be able to find one in another branch for you.

Good luck!

I loved monstrous regiment!