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1 Name: Eilidh : 2013-11-03 15:48 ID:nO/23BOz (Image: 796x599 png, 186 kb) [Del]

Raising Steam, the 40th novel is coming out in a few days~ so I thought I'd start this thread. Is anyone on here a Discworld fan? What's your favourite book in the series? How many have you read, and which was the first one you read?
For me: Maskerade, All of them :), The Wee Free Men

2 Name: S.E. : 2013-11-04 10:03 ID:WPRa1SG3 [Del]

Of course:) I've read them all, too, starting with Guards!Guards! but I couldn't name a favorite,they are all great (although it seems the longer Pratchett writes, the better he gets, so the first few books of the series are nothing compared to what he's written since). But maybe I like books about the Watch and the witches a bit better than the rest. And I can't wait for Raising Steam, hope I'll be able to lay my hands on it the moment it comes out :)

3 Name: KMaher !sc0GlC.hIk : 2014-04-30 12:23 ID:R51FUkfi [Del]

I own a ridiculous amount of these books, all of them have stories very unique to themselves and each one is as memorable as the last. Highly recommended!

4 Name: Grimly !0clQOa6qhY : 2014-05-01 13:06 ID:xn/gEimr [Del]

I only have Good Omens. Can anyone suggest one of Prachett's more esteemed books because I really like his humor.

5 Name: KMaher !sc0GlC.hIk : 2014-05-03 02:14 ID:R51FUkfi [Del]

I personally recommend "Guards! Guards!" as it is the first novel in the "Ankh-Morpork City Watch" series and sets the scene for many of Pratchett's best and funniest works. However, there are a lot of different story lines to choose from aside from the City Watch series, and each of them are as good as the other, so you may find a need for this Reading Guide

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7 Name: Litairtak Speruff!NRf7wfm3Qk : 2015-03-15 11:07 ID:cFmH1v43 (Image: 682x1023 jpg, 179 kb) [Del]

in memoriam Sir Terry Pratchett

No subject was too big for Terry Pratchett, who died on Thursday – once he’d found a way to make it ridiculous. He took on capitalism, religion, sexism, war, death and why you should never buy food from a man with a tray in the street. His books wore their learning lightly, sweeping the reader along on a river of bad puns, self-deprecating footnotes and weird scenarios constructed with impeccable internal logic. Over the course of more than 40 novels, his Discworld series evolved into something much richer and darker than perhaps even he initially expected. Fittingly for someone who spent his final years talking about the need for reform in assisted dying legislation, Pratchett’s best-loved character was Death, an imposing skeleton – who rode a white horse called Binky and spoke IN SMALL CAPS. It was in the persona of Death that Pratchett’s Twitter account announced: “AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.”

For me, though, the best character in the Discworld is Samuel Vimes, the descendant of a regicidal ancestor, who ends up as commander of the Watch in the chaotic city of Ankh-Morpork. Because Vimes hates authority, the city’s machiavellian ruler, the Patrician, keeps giving him more just to annoy him. At one point, he wades into a war and tries to arrest both sides for “breach of the peace”. Here was Pratchett’s own view of humanity: we are endlessly fallible, but usually worth saving.

His fans have known since his 2007 Alzheimer’s diagnosis that Pratchett would not make old bones, but his death is still a shock. The books have never been turned into blockbuster movies, so they still feel like a cult secret – despite sales of more than 80m for the Discworld series alone – and I feel part of a tight-knit community of nerds who have only just begun to miss him. It is some consolation that he died as he lived, demonstrating his humane worldview and corkscrew wit. “DON’T THINK OF THIS AS DYING,” says Death in Good Omens. “JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

My hero: Terry Pratchett by Helen Lewis

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