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

[hunkermunker]

Show yourselves!

[hunkermunker]

LOL! Yes, fab idea!

[BadHair]

How weird! I was only thinking of the Luggage when trying to pack a bag earlier today.
Might re-read the Discworld novels to fill some of the gap until JK Rowling delivers.

[stitch]

i love terry pratchett. the man just gets better and better with each book.

[triceratops]

Have you read "Good Omens" which is TP and Neil Gaiman (who writes sandman comics)? It is one of my favorite books. I love the dog in it. I may have to go and read a bit now.

Oh and the bit when asreal is pissed and giggling about gorillas in nests made me laugh so much (on a lilo next to a pool in Corfu) that someone asked me if I was alright.

[Twiglett]

my first and sometimes favourite was Soul Music hence .. love Death (and like Susan by extension ) .. I've always loved the author blurb myself 'Terry Pratchett was born in dumpty-dumpty-2 and is not dead yet'

(HM .. I'm making jokes of it too ... well your bits are funny aren't they? ... please don't blush .. I much prefer that approach)

[Twiglett]

(I meant hence my Glod quote .. not hence death

[Catbert]

Oh. Total fans here too.

Good Omens was the first Pratchett book we read in this household, and now we're firm fans. Now all the most recent novels are hardbacks, cause you just can't go waiting around for the paperbacks to come out can you?

Never got the hang of "Thud" as a game, but it's a very attractive thing to have hanging around although we've had to temporarily put it away because of small children about...

Have you all played all the discworld PC adventure games too? Most excellent fun! (Although the first one is now so incredibly dated, and you have to run it in "DOS" mode!!!! "That Doesn't Work" a la Eric Idle.

Death has got to be the best character ever!

And I really liked the animated versions of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music.(although there were very mixed reviews). Have the cassettes and CDs of the spoken book versions. Oh - and the illustrated books and maps too...

Do I qualify to join then?

[fairydust]

dh brought me "A Hat Full of Sky" to read this morning as i was moaning i'd got nothing to read - has anyone read this?

[weesaidie]

Love love love him!

I read Good Omens which is fantastic (Neil Gaimans Neverwhere is good too) and then got into the discworld.

Love death and the witches of course also Ridcully! Also what are those wee blue men called? They are very funny.

I can't remember which book it is but there is a note that says something like, up in the hills there was a monastery of cool in which the novices final test was to go into a room full of clothes and asked what the coolest thing to wear is. The correct answer being, 'whatever I pick out dude.'

Brilliant.

[gigglinggoblin]

guards guards is on radio 7 atm, can listen any time here (or record it to listen to later if you are a clever techy type)

[edam]

I didn't really like Hat Full of Sky. Probably because it doesn't have any of the familiar characters, IIRC.

[hunkermunker]

GGG, fab!

Catbert, love the "that doesn't work" on the Discworld games - think that to myself , complete with "OMG, you're SO stupid to even think of that" tone of voice when I'm trying something eminently daft

I love the Listeners - who can only pass when they can tell which side up a coin has landed by listening to it!

The man is a genius. And Good Omens is SO good - I have two copies of it somehow - one cheapo one from a charity shop that I bought because I thought I'd lost my first one and was scared! Love that there's always a copy of Bohemian Rhapsody in every car

(Twiglett - phew )

[hunkermunker]

Have you read Truckers, Diggers and Wings? Or Strata or whatever the other one's called?

[weesaidie]

I read Diggers and Strata which I liked but not as much as his other stuff. With Strata you really see where the foundations of his discworld style came from which is pretty cool.

[hunkermunker]

Yes, definitely - there are some lovely bits in it. Like the chap that liked making Norway, because of the fiddly fjords!

[lucy5]

i'm a fan although i havent read much lately, my last was wee free men!

[weesaidie]

HM - isn't that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? (also good)

[SoupDragon]

Oook!

[Twiglett]

I even read Terry Pratchett's book for kids and enjoy them enough to do it more than once .. 'only you can save mankind' is great

[edam]

Twiglett, for some reason I just knew you'd be a Pratchett fan. A woman of taste, obviously. And you are quite right about Only You Can Save Mankind, fab book.

Isn't there a character called Coddy, somewhere?

[Twiglett]

(I knew you would be too ya big ball of cheese )

[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

[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!

[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...

[Tortington]

yep thats the one hunker it was fab