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#1 DavoErlo

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Posted 05 July 2009 - 04:17 PM

I gotta say the idea for this came after i read Starsongs sig

but I was wondering how many of us read or have read Terry Pratchets Discworld novels and what is your favourite character and/or book?

I would have to say the Witch series are my favourite because lets face it its so hard to choose just one. Also the Nac Mac Feegle are bloody funny.

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Posted 06 July 2009 - 07:04 PM

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Posted 06 July 2009 - 07:38 PM

I like Discworld - and I cant pick a favourite - they are pretty good them all

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Posted 06 July 2009 - 07:42 PM

There's a few of us on here that enjoy the series. I must admit, like Mael, I like them all.

C'mon in. Sit down. Read a little.

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Posted 06 July 2009 - 08:06 PM

BINKY!

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Posted 07 July 2009 - 05:56 AM

While i was walking to work this morning i got to thinking about the series and one book i forgot about.

The last continent.

Being a auzzie it was great to read a book from my favourite series that took the mickey out of my homeland.

Pratchett is awesomesauce.

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Posted 08 July 2009 - 06:54 AM

Who in their right mind hasn't read a Discworld book. Comedy, satire and fantasy. That over fills my requirements for entertaining reading.
Althought I don't have a favorite..not exactly, but I would say Death
and Death of Rats
and Vimes
and Carrot
and Granny Weatherwax
and Rincewind
and Cohen
and the Unseen University staff
and the Patrician

Ok just about everybody

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 01:00 PM

I've read about 25 of them now and I think I like the Watch-based ones best.

Favorite characters would be
Vimes, Patrician, Lu Tze and Angua.

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Posted 11 July 2009 - 09:10 AM

Small Gods is my favorite "Book" although I agree that the Guards/Watch series is hilarious as well (With particular distinction going to Men at Arms)

My favorite character is a toss-up between DEATH (You gotta do the all-caps people

) and the Patrician.

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Posted 13 July 2009 - 05:10 PM

I've only read like 5 of them ... Amongst which my favorite was Soul Music. I have to say that even though DEATH (

) is pretty cool, the wizards are quite hilarious

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 12:22 AM

tough choice buyt i guess i really like the withches (something about the fact the parody fairytales just rubs me the right way)

thats what he said

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 02:27 PM

QUOTE (sailorpallas @ Aug 10 2009, 07:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

tough choice buyt i guess i really like the withches (something about the fact the parody fairytales just rubs me the right way)

Cohen, Rincewind and miss Susan.

and the best book is either Sourcery or Thief of time (but then again i haven't read them all)

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Posted 17 August 2009 - 09:33 PM

I have all the books and read them many times (sad perhaps, but they're all brilliant). My favourite books by a long way are the City Watch books.

Favourite characters in no particular order:

Samuel Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Cheery Littlebottom, Angua, Dibbler, the Wizards (Rincewind, the Dean, Archchancellor Ridcully, the Bursar, Ponder Stibbons, the Librarian, Lecturer in Recent Runes and the Chair of Indefinite Studies). Also, for some strange reason, I like Lord Rust. He makes an amusingly incompetent opposition to Vimes.

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 08:44 PM

I wish I had more Discworld book. Alas, I am poor, and the library has a poor selection. I'm tied on "Thief of Time" and "Guards, Guards" for favorite book, though I haven't read many. Stupid library. Stupid poor-ness. Stupid used book fairs/shops.

My favorite charecters... I like Carrot, Susan, DEATH (or course. He has such a wonderful dry sense of humor.) and I gotta say, I love the Librarian (Don't know why. Maybe I just like monkeys.).

EDIT: And Lu-Tze. How did I forget him in the origional list? He's (sort of, not really) the reason I love "Thief of Time"!

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 06:48 AM

QUOTE (Lady Kwake @ Sep 17 2009, 09:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Don't feel bad, I'm in the same situation. But, I have read Small Gods, bought it at a library sale when I lived in Da Burgh all those years ago. Took me months and months to get around to reading it, but I did. And let me tell you, the mental image of a tortoise falling out of the sky and crushing some dude's skull in, then exploding up into a giant god... priceless.

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Post icon Posted 21 September 2009 - 04:37 PM

After visiting the Disc World, it's worth your time to read "Good Omens" that Terry co-wrote with Neil Gaimen.
Absolutely hilarious and my first Terry Pratchett novel. Since then I have devoured everything he has wrote, what a joy.

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Posted 14 October 2009 - 11:15 PM

I have read nearly all of the Discworld books (including Where's My Cow) and Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. At first I couldn't really get into the books (I started with The Color of Magic) but I eventually made it through and came to love the series.

My favorites are the Watch books especially Night Watch (I'm a sucker for time travel) and the stand alone novels. I also enjoy the novels featuring the Witches and DEATH.

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Posted 15 October 2009 - 10:41 PM

QUOTE (Lady Kwake @ Sep 17 2009, 08:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My favorite charecters... I like Carrot, Susan, DEATH (or course. He has such a wonderful dry sense of humor.) and I gotta say, I love the Librarian (Don't know why. Maybe I just like monkeys.).

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Posted 16 October 2009 - 12:29 AM

the watch books are my favourites with DEATH being my favourite character and I agree he does a wonderful job of take the shit out of Aussieland in the last continent