Anyone for Terry Pratchett

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#1

My recommendation is for the Discworld series. I thought that the humour wasn’t for me when my uncle and aunt suggested it, but when I read the Colour of Magic, one summer morning in Ireland, I read the line ‘in-sure-ants’ and tried to stop myself from blasting out laughing and waking my sister.

It’s funny, clever- as it uses concepts and things from our world and time and put it in a medievel setting, like Twoflower, the four-eyes tourist, the I-Hum and vampires addicted to cafferine, like Sean…hmmm.

It is a long series but don’t worry, I haven’t even finished them all yet.:rolleyes:

#2

I absolutely LOVE Terry Pratchett and most of his novels.

I also recommend his Juvenile books the Chalk series (which features our favorite witches from Lancer) and the Bromeliad Trilogy.As well as Good omens which he wrote with Neil Gaiman.

#3

I think this came up earlier, and the problem was figuring out which one to read.

I’m game for any of them.

#4

I would start with The Colour of Magic or The Wyrd Sisters. IMO

#5

I’d say Guards, Guards.

#6

I’d say Mort. It’s early enough that it doesn’t spoil much (if anything) but it’s late enough that Terry had found his stride as a writer.

#7

I think Guards,Guards or Mort are the best for first choice.

#8

Have the live action adaptions made it to US shores yet?

I was wondering what you guys made of them.

Personally I loved them, and can’t wait for more.

Oh, and Guards, Guards is my favourite novel of the series.

#9

The only live action version that I know of is “Hogfather”. Were others made?

#10

There’s been a few.

#11

I love the soul music cartoon. I haven’t seen it in ages.

#12

I’ve been reading Guards Guards ! It’s pretty good

#13

My favorite is The Last Continent, Rincewind writing in his diary made me blow beer out of my nose from laughing so hard.:smiley:
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Probably Tuesday: hot, flies. Dinner: honey ants. Attacked by honey ants. fell into waterhole.

Wednesday, with any luck: hot, flies. Dinner: either bush raisins or kangaroo droppings. Chased by hunters, don’t know why. Fell into waterhole.

Thursday (could be): hot, flies. Dinner: blue-tongued lizard. Savaged by blue-tongued lizard. Chased by different hunters. Fell off cliff, bounced into tree, pissed on by small gray incontinent teddy bear, landed in a waterhole.

Friday: hot, flies. Dinner: some kind of roots which tasted like sick. This saved time.

Saturday: hotter than yesterday, extra flies. V. thirsty.

Sunday: hot. Delerious with thirst and flies. Nothing but nothing as far as the eye can see, with bushes in it. Decided to die, collapsed, fell down sand dune into waterhole.[/i]

Thank you Terry Pratchett for making me laugh way too much while reading.

#14

I agree with this. Mort is a great book to start with. Plus it has the best entrance for Death in a book that I’ve ever read.

‘Bugger!’