[Closed] Favourite Pratchett books?

Thud.

Guards Guards and Good Omens

Soul Music

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.

Small Gods- both funny and with a definite point to it.

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).

I think I've only read Nigh****ch, I enjoyed it.

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.

Good Omens without a shadow of a doubt.

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...

Interesting Times for me. Also like The Truth.

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.

Bill Door was the BEST CHARACTER. EVER.

Equal Rites, first one I read, and have re read it many times since, excellent.

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 🙂

oops - posty doubleness.

anything with the Nac Mac Feegle gets my vote..

pyramids. purely for You Bastard.

guards guards and good omens.

also Eric.

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pyramids. purely for You Bastard.

😆

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 Nigh****ch 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!

Soul Music... music with rocks in it! 😀

LOVE THE WAY DEATH TALKS IN CAPITALS!

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.

Guards Guards 😀

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.

I have hardbacks for Nigh****ch, Thud and Going Postal for sales if anybody wants them

I love the discworld books but think Nation which isn't discworld is his best

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.

Night Watch, or maybe Lords and Ladies, or possibly Reaper Man.

Guards Guards and Nigh****ch

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.

Two of my most precious knickknacks are a 'Death on Binky' and 'Great a'Tuin' figures from Clarecraft.

Getting rare, too.

For me it has to be either Night Watch, Guards Guards or the last continent

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 ?).

Getting rare, too.

I've got a Death bookend. I'd bought it for my mate as a present for his marriage but his missus made it clear that she'd never allow anything like that so I kept it and bought him something else.

They got divorced.

He should have seen the signs.

I've got some bookends, too. Great things.

pyramids. purely for You Bastard.

Agree, You Bastard features in my Clarecraft collection.

Favourite books probably Men at Arms and Nigh****ch although any of the Watch or Witches novels will do me fine. Also agree Nation is a wonderful book.

jingo is very clever
mort /reaper man my fave though

My wife and i refer to crap sausages and other meat products as C.M.O.T.

No one gets this.

Reaperman is the one I remember most so I guess that's my favourite. New to this really so going through the series for the first time now. Half way through "Feet of Clay" which I'm quite enjoying.

Men at Arms, It was the first one I read and somehow seems to be my favourite and the one i've re-read several times.

Mort
Wyrd Sisters
and the first The colour of magic.

Binky is the best name for a horse ever

My wife and i refer to crap sausages and other meat products as C.M.O.T.

No one gets this.

The thing is that Mr. Dibbler can even sell sausages to people who have bought them off him *before*."
-- Now *that's* marketing

🙂

For pure invention, laced with acute insight into human nature, Night Watch takes some beating by any author.

I know a bloke whos got a copy of the original version of carpet people, written when he was about 17. He hasnt got a clue what it is but i bet thats pretty rare.

So much quality, it's hard to choose. Witches stuff I suppose.

reaper man!!!!! and defo the carpet people ha. i loved that when i was younger. very clever writter!!

Good omens. Greatest Hits of Queen gag = julian's childhood car memories ages 4-14.

(Awaits chastising by proper Pratchet afficionados.)

Gods, I'm a massive fan, I periodically re-read my collection. Favourite? Gosh, um I love the ones with the Patrician and Vimes in, love the idea of 'organised crime' - so Guards! Guards! would have to be no.1, with maybe Going Postal second and Witches Abroad third. Hard to say, they are all so good.

Think I'd have to start from the other end and pic the ones I don't like so much.

I think the tv adaptations were pretty poor tbh

Soul Music. Unseen Academicals is up there too.

I love all pratchett books, im not to fond of the weatherwax books but i wouldnt call them bad. Just got the new books to read.

Vimes is brilliant, also Good Omens is a fantastic book. I love it. I really must read more neil gaimann.

Good Omens is probably my favourite book of all time. Mort is my favourite Pratchett book followed by any with DEATH in them.

Any with the watch....Vimes is great, long live Pratchet.OOKK