Terry Pratchett

[QuickDuck]

The guy is a genius and possibly one of the best authors going around at the moment.

I am currently half way through The Truth and loving it very much.

Yes, I do play Everquest, and yes I look at dwarves and trolls in funny ways.

So far, my favourite book has to be Soul Music, but they are all good.

While not being a discworld book... also take in Good Omens which was co-written by Niel Gaiman

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[cybergirly]

Originally posted by JazzManJim

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

You've talked me into it. The guy who recommened them to me is a little ummm off.
So I had my doubts, but now I'm gonna check them out.

 

[Susano]

Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.
(When you've got them where it counts, their hearts and minds will follow)
-------Terry Pratchett

He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.
-------Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
-------Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

I love Terry Pratchett. He regularly posts to his own fan newsgroup, lots of quotables there as well.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
-------Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
-------Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

 

[sexy-girl]

lol susano i love the last quote maybe i should check out that newsgroup

quickduck i'll add that to my toread list

and cybergirly im sure L - space would explain that

 

[QuickDuck]

Two of my favourite quotes

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink."

-- We meet Dydactylos the philosopher (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)



The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being peasants really quickly.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Soul Music)

 

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Another fan of Pratchett here....and a couple of quick comments.

Although Pratchett writes in a fantasy world, all the Discworld books are satires of things in real life, eg. Wyrd Sisters is a send up on MacBeth(and a bloody funny one as well, if you read Macbeth first), The Truth takes the piss out of Journalism, Movings Pictures out of Cinema, Small Gods out of religion, and so on and on.

So while he's classified as a fantasy writer, his books are so much more than just fantasy. I would recommend anyone to try him, regardless of what genre they preferred.

And his best books IMHO are the middle ones in the series, Guards Guards, Interesting Times, Reaper Man and Soul Music. Although his recent stuff has been his and miss. The Fifth Elephant was terrible, Masquerade was very average, although The Truth was pretty good.

The Truckers series is really good as well and a great set of childrens books. The Johnny books are good as well, especially Only You Can Save Mankind, which is absolutely hilarious.

 

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Quick question...

Has anyone read "Good Omens", which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. It's an alternate take on the Apocalypse, and it's inspired comedy writing. Brilliant.

 

[QuickDuck]

Re: Quick question...

Has anyone read "Good Omens", which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. It's an alternate take on the Apocalypse, and it's inspired comedy writing. Brilliant.

read it.... loved it