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

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Show yourselves!

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

TP rules.

In fact I frequently call one or other Inferiorette Cheery Littlebottom

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

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!

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.

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...

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?

"self-consciously referential and indeed intertextual"

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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.....?

LOL, Serenity! Now you mention it...

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