Just finished I Shall Wear Midnight.
Thought it was excellent, thought provoking, moving and very funny.
So, my revised top three are:
Small Gods
Wyrd Sisters
I Shall Wear Midnight
With Night Watch a very strong runner up.
Whats yours?
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Favourite Pratchett books?
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Thud.
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Guards Guards and Good Omens
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Soul Music
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Our copy of Good Omens has been read so many times that it is starting to fall apart
For Pratchet solo, near enough anything with Rincewind in it. I don't like the Vimes character much.
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Small Gods- both funny and with a definite point to it.
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Oooooh, "I shall wear midnight" will be my next read then!!
I've read most of them, if not all - not sure I have a favourite though.
Going Postal sticks in my mind though, as does Thief of Time and the one that is mainly about Golems (the name escapes me).
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I think I've only read Nightwatch, I enjoyed it.
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Loads for me, Mort, Reaper man was excellent (Miss Flitworth at the end was very, ahem, moving), Granny Weatherwax, Vimes, ...
Actually most of them.
I find that it's the ones that have a very poignant moment that stays with you.Some recent ones, for me, havent been so great. Will have to re-read them.
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Good Omens without a shadow of a doubt.
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All of them, (if it's discworld) I have a tendancy to get the new one, read it, then start again on the whole lot, finally re-reading the new one again.
Really a favorite? No too many great characters... the Wytches, the night watch, Death, Rincewind...Posted 10 months ago # -
Interesting Times for me. Also like The Truth.
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My favorites are the watch books, I really like Vimes, I do the same as z1ppy does and re-read the books every so often.
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Bill Door was the BEST CHARACTER. EVER.
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Equal Rites, first one I read, and have re read it many times since, excellent.
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Reaper Man, Going Postal, Small Gods and Wyrd Sisters. However I've enjoyed all of them and currently reading I shall wear Midnight. My going postal is signed too
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oops - posty doubleness.
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anything with the Nac Mac Feegle gets my vote..
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pyramids. purely for You Bastard.
guards guards and good omens.
also Eric.
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pyramids. purely for You Bastard.
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Anything with the Men of the Watch, especially that cynical B*astard Vimes. Genius character whose development from the alcoholic in Guards, Guards through to the man he is in Thud and Nightwatch is just brilliantly written.
I still think 'Jingo' is one of his finest as a commentary on war, race and religion and ending with Vimes attempting to arrest two armies on charges of 'breach of the peace' and 'going equipped to cause affray' is shear genius.
That and the opening description of the 'Curious Squid' means im laughing before I've made it off the opening page!
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Soul Music... music with rocks in it!
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LOVE THE WAY DEATH TALKS IN CAPITALS!
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I'm a big Pratchett fan, and really enjoy the DW series. I prefer the earlier books personally, particularly the Witches and Guards series.
However, IMO his best book by far is Nation. Sheer brilliance. He's used all the beauty and skills honed in the DW series and created a whole culture on an Island. It isn't one of his mainstream books, but is well worth a read.
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Guards Guards
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Oddly, I found Nation to be a little too "preachy" for me. Still, lovely writing!
Used to have a great Playstation game, with Rincewind voiced by Eric Idle, which really tapped in to the wit and humour of his writing.
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I have hardbacks for Nightwatch, Thud and Going Postal for sales if anybody wants them
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I love the discworld books but think Nation which isn't discworld is his best
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I was a huuuge Pratchett fan (not so much now), but my mum started me on the Truckers/Diggers/Wings books. God i disliked those. I "rediscovered" him through the Discworld books about three years later and didn't look back.
My favourite recent Pratchett books have been Making Money and Going Postal. Even though they share a plot, i enjoyed them both a lot.
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Night Watch, or maybe Lords and Ladies, or possibly Reaper Man.
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Guards Guards and Nightwatch
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Going Postal/Making Money are excellent. The Truth is good. All the Vimes books are great, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant especially.
Oh, and Mort and Hogfather go without saying.
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Two of my most precious knickknacks are a 'Death on Binky' and 'Great a'Tuin' figures from Clarecraft.
Getting rare, too.
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For me it has to be either Night Watch, Guards Guards or the last continent
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Have read about 15 of the Discworld books and two weeks ago a colleague gave me all the rest of them on loan. Just as well i'm on holiday at the moment.
Favourites are Reaper Man, Going Postal and Guards! Guards!.
Like Commander Vimes, DEATH, Susan Sto Helit and any of the Igor's. And of course Captain Carrot (who does'nt ?).
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