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

[hunkermunker]

Show yourselves!

[Radida]

love TP books here too,started off with the light fantastic, but really got into him w Mort etc, my fave characters are Granny Weatherwax and Vimes

[hunkermunker]

LOL, Serenity! Now you mention it...

[serenity]

Pratchett is pretty damn cool imho. We've got a very classy Josh Kirby print of Discworld in our hall as well.

Going back a few posts to the Granny Weatherwax thing, doesn't anyone else think of Cod when she comes up.....?

[sfxmum]

hello
see i must read TP . dh bought me arm load at start of maternity leave, thought i would have lots of time... bless him he knows i am a fan of fantasy and so on

[expatinscotland]

I laughed my ass off when I read his comment about JK Rowling! I like JK Rowling books. But Terry is just funny as hell.

[hunkermunker]

Agree totally with Terry Pratchett re JK Rowling! She's always seen her writing as totally different and unique when it's got so many similarities to other books it's untrue!

[ellceeell]

Have you seen what Terry Pratchett said about J K Rowling? here
ds was into Pratchett books when he was at primary school. His teacher asked him to stop bringing them in as other children were sniggering at the under clothed well endowed women on the covers!

[Twiglett]

"self-consciously referential and indeed intertextual"

oo that sounds so much better .. can tell you write for a living

[bettys]

Isn't AS Byatt a big fan? Or Margaret Drabble...one of them anyway.
The Watch is my favourite, I adore Sam Vimes & can't wait to see how he deals with a small child.
Don't like the Monks of Time though I'm quite amused by their similarities to Bond's Q.
How do you play Thud?

[hunkermunker]

I know when I was doing some v heavy philosophy at university, reading Small Gods really helped! Made my essays perhaps less weighty than they ought to have been though...

[motherinferior]

I don't think he's derivative, I think he's self-consciously referential and indeed intertextual, acksherly, Twiglett.

In fact I was talking about JK Rowling the other day to a friend and saying how Pratchett's very intelligence and ability to play about with quite major stuff - both in terms of other literature and in terms of Bigger Stuff (if of course you get Bigger Stuff than books) - makes his popular success quite surprising. Other novelists who are similarly intelligent about fantasy haven't managed it, I think.

[Lonelymum]

Can I enroll dh into this club? I have just been sorting our books onto shelves and he has no fewer than 28 Terry Pratchett books. He does regard them as holiday reading though!

[emily05]

love terry pratchett - especially 'guards guards' and the one where death takes a holiday (cant remember the title)

[motherinferior]

In fact I frequently call one or other Inferiorette Cheery Littlebottom

[babaworshipper]

Throwing blankets over the heads of bogeymen to scare them off - priceless!

TP rules.

[motherinferior]

He is utterly fabulous. Whatever else DP and I may disagree on, a common adoration of Pratchett is a given in the Inferiority Complex.

[Oliviab]

Good Omens got me back into books again after 5yrs of secondary school killed my enthusiasm!

I love anything with Vimes in, he's just the coolest bloke in the world.
Pratchett's right up there with the Simpsons in terms of modern satire, he churns them out like clockwork and each one is an absolute treasure of insight and entertainment.

[throckenholt]

another fan here - but again haven't read any for a while - will have to go reaid the library - not sure why teh keep them in the children's section though

[Lizita]

i'm a fan too, haven't read any in ages, this thread is making me reach for them....

[hunkermunker]

I loved Hogfather. The idea of the tooth fairy carrying pliers in case she didn't have the right change - PMSL! And as for the raven who hoped everything was eyeballs - fantastic!

[Twiglett]

TP is totally derivative .. that's part of the fun

have never played a discworld game ..maybe I'm not really a fan ... recommendation?

thief of time not his best IMHO

[Tortington]

yep thats the one hunker it was fab

[edam]

Oh, the politics is wonderful - I so want my PM to be Vetinari and the head of the Met to be Vimes. And Granny Weatherwax to be the power behind the throne. King Verence is a portrait of Charles, really, isn't he?

Love the Vimes 'boots' theory of general economic injustice: poor people can only afford rubbishy boots which wear out. And have to put up with using cardboard when the soles have gone. And eventually get enough money together to buy another pair of boots. Over a lifetime, spending a huge proportion of income on 100s of pairs of crappy boots that wear out. Aristrocrats like Lady Sybil inherit classy, handmade boots which last for several lifetimes...

[hunkermunker]

There is something about fjords in both books, iirc - someone will correct me if not though, I'm sure!

Thief Of Time, Custy? Fab book - love the Procrastinators!

[Tortington]

my first one - cant remember the title was about the monks and time

i love tp, the above book blew my mind - my hubby took it on holiday to read - he didnt read it i ran out of reading stuff and thought i would give it a go - dh read frost three pages and decided it was too hard reading for him - and he is a tolkien love freek he knows the elven poems for fcks sake - but i really got into it - and just the different take and look at things we take for granted is excellent - i also love the sublte political points he is making through his books - last one i read was diggers. have been reading one since my holiday in may - cant remember its name - its in the loo for emergency use only am not thrilled with it - its a bout time again and changing time and a riot and cimes cahnging things and a baddy went back in time with him and drone drone drone - its not thrilling.
so i revise my statement - on the whole i love tp