Terry Pratchett

[sexy-girl]

anyone like his books ?


great throw away books read them in a couple of days and laugh out loud embarrassing yourself if you're reading at work

for anyone who hasn't read them they are set on "discworld" a place which is basically what it would be like if all these fantasy creatures like dragons dwarfs and trolls really existed ... and how it would all work (work badly that is)

anyway if you have heard of him which are your favorite books ... i love any with death in ... and i like the guards ones a lot to im reading jingo right now very funny



http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/~scwoodho/discworldlibrary/discworld.jpg

 

[lobito]

Never got into that stuff, but I do wonder what peoples fascinations with dwarfs' and death is.

 

[riff]

For someone who was heavily into Everquest for a year, you would think that I would read all those things, but I never got into it... like the Hobbit stuff.

I have never read any of Pratchett's books.

 

[Dillinger]

His stuff is fun - always good for a light/fun read and some laughs and escapism. I'm definitely a fan.

I LOVE the Mort books!

 

[sexy-girl]

its not a normal type of fantasy per say ... as in the serious types of fantasy books


for instance the book im reading at the moment has a character that is just like lee harvey oswald ... and a situation similar to the cuban missile crisis

and has some very quotable lines in his books

Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo

those are just a couple from what i've read of this book

 

[Dragon Dreamer]

It's funny, I'm a huge fan of the fantasy genre, both as a reader, and a writer. It's the genre in which I've written the most work. However, I've never read Pratchett. He's just never seemed to make it onto my fifty page reading list. If you like fantasy I highly recommend the following:

George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series. This is probably the best fantasy since Lord of the Rings, specifically because unlike most fantasy, it doesn't copy the Tolkein model.

Glen Cook's "The Black Company" series. Evil vs Evil, how can it get any better?

Terry Goodkind's "Wizards First Rule." A modern classic.

Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" even though it starts to drag after the 5th book.

Jack Whyte's "Dream of Eagles" series. My favourite take on Arthurian legend, and the most realistic. (Called "The Camulod Chronicles" in the U.S.)

Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Fionavar Tapestry" Absolutely brilliant series by a Canadian authour.


That's just a short list.

 

[sexy-girl]

His stuff is fun - always good for a light/fun read and some laughs and escapism. I'm definitely a fan.

I LOVE the Mort books!

im glad you like them but tell them its not fantasy dillinger


thanks for the list dragon dreamer but im not actually really into fantasy books so much ... although who knows if i try one i might pick one from your list the only fantasy book i have liked was lord of the rings

 

[Dougy]

You know, I haven't read his stuff in years, but Pratchett can certainly turn a phrase. He and Douglas Adams can say seemingly normal things in a way that makes them hilarious.

 

[Dillinger]

im glad you like them but tell them its not fantasy dillinger

It's not fantasy dillinger.

 

[Vivacia]

I love them, and one of my favorite bits is in the Color of magic (I think) where you have someone standing on a hilltop in brass amour shouting "All gods are bastards" in the middle of a thunder storm!

 

[sexy-girl]

It's not fantasy dillinger.

thank you

 

[Star of Penumbra]

I've read The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic, and Equal Rites (the first three Discworld books). I liked them, but not enough to bother looking for more of the series.

 

[android1966]

Yeah I've read just about all of Pratchetts books.
My favourite character is corporal Nobby Nobbs of the Ankh Morporkh night watch.

The man who was disqualified from the human race for shoving.

It's said in Napoleons army every soldier had a marshalls baton in his knapsack, corporal Nobbs had two and a brigadiers boots, colonels sword and the generals best silver.

 

[sexy-girl]

lol android vivacia i remember that one but i cant remember which book it is ... and star mort is a very good "early" book to start with because it has death and hes probably one of the best characters

 

[Maiden-hunter]

Have you read the truckers set they are brill all about nomes liveing in a shop about to be pulled down but they think tat the shop is the whole world and there is no outside

 

[sexy-girl]

i never read truckers i heard they were more aimed at kids ... but yet again some people say that about the discworld books i might get it from my library thanks

 

[scrymettet]

i never read truckers i heard they were more aimed at kids ...

Aren't all the good books ? Go for them.

 

[mischeviousmisti]

OMG

i must show this thread to my husband, him and his best friend are terry pratchett fiends.. i can't honestly say i've read any of the books myself but i will deifnitely tell my husband of this trhead, you two would have alot of fun things to say that none of us will understand i'm sure. i'll read a terry pratchett novel or two eventually. the humor i think i could really get into starting with the right book. the mood has to take me. i'll definitely show this one to my husband. he's on here as "lionblade".

 

[sexy-girl]

yep he's more then welcome to post on this thread i'd love to hear his fav books of the series

 

[hornylady]

I love Terry Pratchett, and I'd find it hard to pick out one in particular......but the best character has to be Rincewind the wizard, along with his Luggage, and the Librarian who got turned into an orang-utang and would never let them turn him back I'm grinning just thinking about some of his writing, and my husband is giving me funny looks again

 

[JazzManJim]

I'm a tremendous Pratchett fan!

Among my favorites (and the first I ever read of his) are "Guards! Guards!" and "Reaper Man". I think those are the best, bar none, of the series. I'd toss in the one big Opera spoof, though I can't recall the title right now.

Then again, I'm a big fan of the books involving the Guards.

Paul Kidby is perhaps the be3st Pratchett illustrator, and he does have a web site, and sells prints and original discworld art.

 

[mig]

I guess lots of people read his books and enjoy them.

Just can't figure out why.

 

[sexy-girl]

I guess lots of people read his books and enjoy them.

Just can't figure out why.

you dont like him or you've never read one ?

i love those characters too horny lady ... and the L space in the library is cool

if you like the guards books jazz man be sure to read the fifth elephant one of the best guards books

 

[cybergirly]

This is funny. I had never heard of Pratchatt untill today, when someone at work told me I should read his discworld series.
Then I log on here and what do I see, but this thread... I must some how be destined to read these books.

 

[JazzManJim]

This is funny. I had never heard of Pratchatt untill today, when someone at work told me I should read his discworld series.
Then I log on here and what do I see, but this thread... I must some how be destined to read these books.

Please do. With your sense of humor, they'll soon become favorites!

sexy, I've read that one, too. I've read every Discworld book he has.