Favourite Discworld Novel?

[Roy_D_Mylote]

What's yours?

My favorite is Going Postal, but my favorite "series" is the Watch series. Right now I'm reading Small Gods, then probably Soul Music. I bought them at the same time a long time ago, tried to get into them, and didn't like them. Then I needed something to read, found Small Gods all alone on the shelf, and got through half of it in two days.

[Fifthfiend]

I dunno, Thief of Time maybe, or Small Gods. Maybe Sourceror. Honestly it's a question that changes depending on when you ask me.

I think I tend to prefer the ones I don't own, since those are the ones I haven't read fifty fuckin' times already.

Man, I have to say, "tried to get into them and didn't like them" isn't even a sentence I can mentally connect to a Terry Pratchett book, pretty much as soon as I pick up a new one I'm not moving anywhere for the next eight hours.

Okay except Witches Abroad, that one was for shit.

Speaking of shitty Prattchet books, I would totally have said Wee Free Men was my favorite, until I read Hat Full of Sky. That book was so fuckin' stupid it makes it hard to enjoy the previous story, knowing that this is what comes of it. I need to take my copy of Hat Full of Sky and throw it away or burn it or something, then I can pretend I never actually read it and I can enjoy Wee Free Men again.

[Kaelus]

Not many novels were released in Brazil, so I'm going to say Mort.

Maybe I should spend more time digging in the international section of the bookstore around the corner... *sigh*

[Roy_D_Mylote]

I dunno, Thief of Time maybe, or Small Gods. Maybe Sourceror. Honestly it's a question that changes depending on when you ask me.

I think I tend to prefer the ones I don't own, since those are the ones I haven't read fifty fuckin' times already.

Man, I have to say, "tried to get into them and didn't like them" isn't even a sentence I can mentally connect to a Terry Pratchett book, pretty much as soon as I pick up a new one I'm not moving anywhere for the next eight hours.

Okay except Witches Abroad, that one was for shit.

Speaking of shitty Prattchet books, I would totally have said Wee Free Men was my favorite, until I read Hat Full of Sky. That book was so fuckin' stupid it makes it hard to enjoy the previous story, knowing that this is what comes of it. I need to take my copy of Hat Full of Sky and throw it away or burn it or something, then I can pretend I never actually read it and I can enjoy Wee Free Men again.
And wouldn't you know it, the first Pratchett movie IS A HAT FULL OF SKY.

[Satan's Onion]

...
Man, I have to say, "tried to get into them and didn't like them" isn't even a sentence I can mentally connect to a Terry Pratchett book, pretty much as soon as I pick up a new one I'm not moving anywhere for the next eight hours.

Member after my own heart :D

Okay except Witches Abroad, that one was for shit.

Erm...was that the one to do with fairy godmothering? 'Cos I think I liked at least parts of that one, tho Esme having family angst0rs is a bit odd, I guess.

Speaking of shitty Prattchet books, I would totally have said Wee Free Men was my favorite, until I read Hat Full of Sky. That book was so fuckin' stupid it makes it hard to enjoy the previous story, knowing that this is what comes of it. I need to take my copy of Hat Full of Sky and throw it away or burn it or something, then I can pretend I never actually read it and I can enjoy Wee Free Men again.

Hard not to like the pictsies :cool: . But what about A Hat Full Of Sky? I thought it innocuous enough when I read it. I'd of thought you'd have more to pick on in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. (I suppose, as long as I'm on that subject, that my least favorite in Discworld canon would probably have to be Eric; it just failed to engage me like his other novels do, with possible runner-up status to Pyramids and Reaper Man. Also, I'm trying not to put his early work into the Meh List arbitrarily, but Rincewind and I never did really hit it off until about Interesting Times or so.)

Right now my absolute favorite Discworld novel is probably Night Watch. But then, a book full of Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is hard pressed to disappoint me. Still, it's a damn good book that can make one laugh and weep in the space of a few pages as Night Watch does. Monstrous Regiment is also hard to beat, as is The Truth, which is the only Discworld novel I own :o ; pretty --ing good, that. I also have fond memories of Jingo (<-first Discworld novel I ever read!), Hogfather, Small Gods, Soul Music, Thief of Time, Maskerade, and I think Carpe Jugulum. Also, that one featuring Cohen the barbarian, is it The Last Hero? That one's not bad either.

Anyone here read The Fifth Elephant? The first time I tried to read that, I got sidetracked, and I don't remember if I finished the second attempt. So if anyone can remind me of a few plot details I'd be grateful. Then I can remember if it's any good or not--or is not remembering enough of an indicator of quality?

edit: Gaspity! A Discworld film? And it's A Hat Full Of Sky? Bit of an odd choice, I'd think. But then, I suppose others in the Discworld series may well have too much detail to become a decent movie.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Fifth Elephant is the one where Vimes goes to Uberwald to witness the coronation of the new dwarf king.

[CallmePrismatic]

Fifth Elephant was ok, quality wise, if you want to know more about werewolves and dwarven culture, although Thud! also does a good job on illuminating dwarven ideologies while exposing that trolls are more than one-dimensional.

I have all of the Watch books, with Jingo ("No he wasn't an assassin, he just killed people for money") or Night Watch (He moved like a cat, except he didn't stop to pee on things) being my favorites.

Soul Music is also pretty good. 'No! Music With Rocks In just happens. If you go around learning you'll never get anywhere,'

[DFA]

I'm a huge Death fan so the Death series are my favorite. Of them I have to say Reaper Man is the best the scene with Death vs. New Death ranks among my all-time favorite scenes in Discworld.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Anything with Vimes as the lead character. That man is by far the best character Pratchet made.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

But, to paraphrase Pterry himself, Vimes has made writing a story about crime set in Ankh-Morpork hard, because it quickly degenerates into a "Watch book."

[DFA]

But, to paraphrase Pterry himself, Vimes has made writing a story about crime set in Ankh-Morpork hard, because it quickly degenerates into a "Watch book."

He seemed to pull it off rather well in The Truth.

[Satan's Onion]

Fifth Elephant is the one where Vimes goes to Uberwald to witness the coronation of the new dwarf king.

Thanks Roy (and CallmePrismatic too. Which reminds me, I need to find me a copy of Thud!)! Come to think, I may *not* have finished that one. Does it involve a werewolf family, or am I thinking of another one?

Also, I told a lie:

...as is The Truth, which is the only Discworld novel I own :o ; pretty --ing good, that...

I also have a battered ex-library copy of Feet of Clay somewhere; I just have to find it. That one's not bad either.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

The Fifth Elephant is the one with Angua's werewolf family in it, yes.

No, that doesn't count as a spoiler, as it really doesn't do much to the plot.

[Fifthfiend]

But what about A Hat Full Of Sky? I thought it innocuous enough when I read it. I'd of thought you'd have more to pick on in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.

Never read Maurice. Anyway the thing of it is that Wee Free Men was good because it was about a hard-nosed little snotball who didn't take shit off of fools and won by being smart and hard-working and paying attention to what the fuck she was doing. Then Hat Full of Sky took that same girl and turned her into a self-absorbed twit who stumbled around half-assedly being helpless and dimwitted and then she wins because oh she's just so goshdarn precious and everybody loves her because she's just sooo goshdarn special and perfect how can you not love her? And I mean, fuck that.

Erm...was that the one to do with fairy godmothering? 'Cos I think I liked at least parts of that one, tho Esme having family angst0rs is a bit odd, I guess.

I just got like forty pages into it and I was like oh joy, Granny Weatherwax is going to be a horrible manipulative old bitch and then everyone loves her ass for it, you know what, nah. Every one of those books I keep waiting for Magrat to be like "No but seriously, fuck off," and it just never happens.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Just finished Small Gods. It was almost good enough to topple Going Postal, but no.

[Althane]

Brace yourselves...

I have never read a Discworld novel.

Now, does anyone have a good suggestion for one to start off on? :P

[Roy_D_Mylote]

....[Does not Compute]

But if you want to start, I'd start with Thief of Time. It's a great one, and the one I started on. It really introduces you to Pratchett's imagination. Or, of course, Guards Guards. The start of the Vimes saga.

[Fifthfiend]

I can suggest you get the FUCK OUT.

And don't come back until you know better.

... No but seriously, Thief of Time is awesome!

[Steel Shadow]

The first one, maybe? Meh, they're all great (Except small gods), any one of them is a good place to start (Except small gods), but if you have to start at the begining, go with the coulour of magic (Excep- oh, nvm)

Maybe I'm being to hard on SG, I didn't read all of it. Just the first part, and I got bored. Never happened with any TP book, and I think I've read them all. Rincewind and Vimes are the best two main characters. One's good at running, the others good at chasing. My favorite would be... ah darn, you have to make me choose? I'll go with the science of Discworld 3 then. Wizards at war was just too cool.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

It's very hard for me to find any Science of Discworld books. Granted, I live in the worst possible place to live in the world. Yes, it's worse than Alabama.

[Fifthfiend]

I'm thinking, what - Kansas?

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Nah. South Carolina.

[The Wandering God]

Reaper Man had the biggest impact on me. It really set up a great character. Who unfortunately kinda fell into the background in his own damn series. C'mon, his granddaughter is a good character and all, but I want more Death in my Death books.

Vimes does indeed rock. While my friend Karma swears up and down by Granny Weatherwax. (Of course, they are of a similar bent, so there ya go.)

Pyramids had a lot of interesting things to say about religion.

I love The Truth. The part where Word chews out the guy who "was told things" at the dinner (or was it breakfast?) table. My favorite monologue/dialogue in the entire series, hands down.

The Wandering God

[Mystryl]

At the moment, my favorite DW novel is Witches Abroad. Granny Weatherwax is the most awesome character in the series. She kicks so much ass. She can defeat almost anything or anyone through the mere use of psychology. Also, the banter between her and Nanny Ogg is simply hilarious.

[CallmePrismatic]

I'm pretty sure that an entire book consisting solely of the misadventures and hijinks of Nobbs and Colon would be perhaps the best thing in the world.

[Slime]

My favourite would have to be either Night Watch or Going Postal, though the entire series just plain kicks ass!

[Steel Shadow]

You want more Death? He's in every book! Although death centered ones are great, it's true.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Not so. There was one book he wasn't in, but I don't remember what it was. I'll look it up.

[EDIT] It's Wee Free Men in which Death doesn't appear.

[Mauve Mage]

Reaper Man had the biggest impact on me. It really set up a great character. Me too. I loved Reaper Man.

Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal are tied for Second Favorite. I also loved The Truth (That was the one with the newspaper, right?) mainly because I'm a journalism major. :D


One of the greatest things about the Discworld novels is that Terry Pratchett manages to create a story that can pull off both humor and a serious plot. A lot of 'funny stories' are just fluff. Pratchett's work, however, usually feature several subplots and great character interaction, and a partially-serious plot.

[The Wandering God]

Me too. I loved Reaper Man.

Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal are tied for Second Favorite. I also loved The Truth (That was the one with the newspaper, right?) mainly because I'm a journalism major. :D


One of the greatest things about the Discworld novels is that Terry Pratchett manages to create a story that can pull off both humor and a serious plot. A lot of 'funny stories' are just fluff. Pratchett's work, however, usually feature several subplots and great character interaction, and a partially-serious plot.
Yes, The Truth is the one about the newspaper. And I love how that tied into the rest of the series after that. Another reason he's such a great writer is that he can balance all the things that have come before, and outdo himself.

I think a lot of the humor of the series relates to how well he manages to take the everday world and skew it. The ridiculousness of modern things in a fantasy medieval setting just seems funny to me. And, of course, it's all well written.

The Wandering God

[Satan's Onion]

Never read Maurice. Anyway the thing of it is that Wee Free Men was good because it was about a hard-nosed little snotball who didn't take shit off of fools and won by being smart and hard-working and paying attention to what the fuck she was doing. Then Hat Full of Sky took that same girl and turned her into a self-absorbed twit who stumbled around half-assedly being helpless and dimwitted and then she wins because oh she's just so goshdarn precious and everybody loves her because she's just sooo goshdarn special and perfect how can you not love her? And I mean, fuck that.

I'll read it again with that in mind (I think I only read it once). To be fair, I rather think all of the Discworld novels he's written "for kidz" are a bit watered down for my tastes (Wee Free Men being the least so), but it's better than going without.

I just got like forty pages into it and I was like oh joy, Granny Weatherwax is going to be a horrible manipulative old bitch and then everyone loves her ass for it, you know what, nah. Every one of those books I keep waiting for Magrat to be like "No but seriously, fuck off," and it just never happens.

I suppose that, if I had to name a problem with this particular iteration of the Witches' story, it's not so much that Esme is a horrible, manipulative bitch--they can be fun to read about, too--but that, in this one, I think we were supposed to go "awww, poor Esme" at some point. After that it just gets to be a bit soap-opera, I think--y'know, the whole cliche about how "(s)he's tough as nails on the outside, but (s)he *really* just wants a great big hug 'cos (s)he's sad 'n' lonely and had a bad childhood". It's not even just making her sympathetic; I suspect there'd be more effective ways to do that than the "troubled past" routine (Vimes is just as sympathetic and he didn't have this done to his character, did he? Certainly not to this extent). I think it's just given her a core of untouchably treacly angstiness.

edit: Thank you again, Roy, about Fifth Elephant. Looks like I'm going to have to read it again just to see how much I remember...

[Kuponutmog]

I liked Lords and Ladies a lot. Witches AND Wizards? All it needed to be perfect would have been more Death and maybe a cameo from Sam Vimes.

*Edit - all below (lengthening post)*

Monsterous Regiment was also awesome. Really liked the characters.

All the Sam Vimes ones are really good. I like his sarcastic nature. Much like me in real life to be honest :)

[Althane]

SO, I finally found Discworld in our library.

Grand total of.. 3 books.

Yeah.

Theif of Time, The Truth, and the sequel to Thief of Time that I didn't get.

Is there some huge collection thing that I could buy?

[Fifthfiend]

SO, I finally found Discworld in our library.

Grand total of.. 3 books.

Yeah.

Theif of Time, The Truth, and the sequel to Thief of Time that I didn't get.

Is there some huge collection thing that I could buy?

The series is something like 30 books long, so any collection would have to be on the order of a small set of encyclopedias.

Thief of Time's as good a place to start as any, really. There's not really an overbearing need to start at the beginning, unless that's a particular hangup of yours.

Also - sequel to Thief of Time? What?

[Satan's Onion]

Just finished Thud!, which I think is now on my favorites list of Discworld titles. It's not Night Watch, but then I think Night Watch is exemplary of Pratchett at his very best. Thud! is still pretty freakin' good, tho'. My only thing is that by now, we have *got* to be nearing the end of Vimes' arc as a chronicleable character. He even mentions in Thud! that Vimes is around/over fifty now, I think. Heck, I kind of wonder if this wouldn't be (knock on wood) the end of the Vimes arc. (Tho' I have a hypothesis, for which read "desperate hope", that his arc only ends when we finally figure out what precisely happened when Vimes was "Brought Low by a woman" as mentioned in Guards! Guards!--sort of a full circle in terms of finding out Vimes' past.)
(edited to make my spelling 5% shinier!)

[Steel Shadow]

The only one that could be counted as a sequal to theif of time would be night watch, I think. I'm not certain, but certain... events in ToT could be the cause of certain main plotlines in NW.
Thud rocks. It's the only discworld novel I actualy own, so it gets extra cool points for that. And the end of the whole vimes arc type thing!?! Never! He's faced down (or stared up at) dragons, he's retired and then... sorta didn't. He can't be done! At least, not untill Carot becomes king or something. Although I like vetinari... bugger.

[Althane]

Yeah, Night Watch, I just figured it was the sequel to ToT, because it mentioned it in its dust cover. Eh...

Death is cool though.

And yes, FF, I do like to start at the beginning of a series, even if all the books are disjointed. Just a little thing of mine.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

I think that Vimes's series will end when Carrot and Angua get married.

It'll happen, dammit!

[Steel Shadow]

but... but... no more Vimes means no more watch! No more watch means we don't get to see Carrot and Angua go through all that hard rigors of marrige that's been done to death by just about every single goddamn series, book or otherwise. Ok, I get your point.

And they better had get married, damn it!

[Fifthfiend]

I think that Vimes's series will end when Carrot and Angua get married.

It'll happen, dammit!

Vimes' series will end when Carrot tries to assert himself as King and he and Vimes go to war against one another for the soul of Ankh-Morpork.

I mean, that's what Pratchet's been foreshadowing since as long as he's been doing the Watch books. Whether he actually does it that way is anyone's guess, I suppose.

And yes, FF, I do like to start at the beginning of a series, even if all the books are disjointed. Just a little thing of mine.

Fair enough, really.

Start with Color of Magic, the books pretty much all have a list in 'em of the order of the series. The paperbacks are like five-seven bucks a pop, you can usually find most of the series at any given Barnes & Noble.

[Althane]

I have yet to visit my towns B&N this year. Whic is really weird, considering that's where I usually blow ALL my Christmas money.

Maybe tommorow. Or Wednesday.

So, The Truth seems like an alright book. For some reason it's not gripping me like Thief of Time did. Ah well, maybe I did myself in by starting with his (apparently) greatest work.

[Satan's Onion]

You try Night Watch, Althane? 'Cos I personally found that one was second to none.

[Jason_Voorhees]

My fav would have to be "Interesting Times".

[Pinball Wizard]

My fav's would be: "Small Gods", "Interesting Times", "Soul Music", and "The Last Continent".

The series is something like 30 books long, so any collection would have to be on the order of a small set of encyclopedias.
Yeah, it is about 30 books long. I have the entire Discworld series except for the young author ones, picture books, and the newest one "Thud!". But I can't find "The Last Hero" at any book store! Does B&N or Borders even carry it?

"Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" (even though its not a novel) is still hilarious. That also ranks high on my Pratchett list.

[Jeneralissimo]

I agree with Jason, Interesting Times is awesome.
I <3 Rincewind.
That and I took a class on Asian history right before I read it so I actually got a lot of the jokes.
That's the one where the Luggage has children, right? (It's been a while since I have been to Discworld.)

[Thundergod Cid]

Probably Guards, Guards! Mainly out of the nostalgia factor, since that was the first Discworld book I ever read.

[Jason_Voorhees]

I agree with Jason, Interesting Times is awesome.
I <3 Rincewind.
That and I took a class on Asian history right before I read it so I actually got a lot of the jokes.
That's the one where the Luggage has children, right? (It's been a while since I have been to Discworld.)


Heh, yeah that's the one. And since one of my fav characters is Cohen (alongside Rincewind and DEATH), I really loved that book. Prolly the best scenes are when the Silver Horde encounter Ninjas and Samurais. Priceless.

[Art of Hilt]

There are three Discworld novels at my school library.

I have read two and a half Discworld novels.

The two that I've read were "Thief of Time" and "Fifth Elephant".

The half was "Equal Rites", but I got bored of that one and didn't finish it... maybe because it was the first one I read, and thus wasn't very familiar with the setting.

I like Thief of Time, and Fifth Elephant all too much. Sam's attitude towards Ankh-Morpork reminds me of myself, somehow. >_> That's what made me laugh, mostly.

[Fifthfiend]

The half was "Equal Rites", but I got bored of that one and didn't finish it... maybe because it was the first one I read, and thus wasn't very familiar with the setting.

Naw, that one was just shitty.

If you got a kick out of Vimes, there's a bunch more books featuring him, from his introduction onward there's Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, then this is where Fifth Elephant fits in, then Night Watch, then Thud.

I actually got a kick out of jumping back and forth through the series, just for where there's a lot of stuff you write off as an offhand gag or some random bit of fait accompli backstory, and then it turns out that there was actually an entire goddamn book around it.

Heh, yeah that's the one. And since one of my fav characters is Cohen (alongside Rincewind and DEATH), I really loved that book. Prolly the best scenes are when the Silver Horde encounter Ninjas and Samurais. Priceless.

You should really try and find The Last Hero somewhere, it was this big tablet-size fully-illustrated Cohen story, Rincewind and Carrot and Leonard of Quirm get mixed up in that shit too, really it was fantastic.

But I can't find "The Last Hero" at any book store! Does B&N or Borders even carry it?

Amazon or somewhere's probably your best bet on that one.

[EDIT] BAM! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060507772/sr=8-1/qid=1144420035/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1238824-9169525?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

[Mashirosen]

Y'all really so sure Thief of Time is a good place for a beginner to jump on? I seem to remember that it requires that you know at least a little about the Auditors, Susan and her whole deal, and the time monks from whatever the hell book they debuted in. An 8-Bit fan might be better off starting with the Rincewind books, since the tone is roughly similiar and Rincewind could be fairly described as a less malevolent Black Mage. (Twoflower when he appears being more than a little Fighterish himself, after all.)

Didn't Pratchett say sometime not too long ago that he was gradually winding the series down?

[Fifthfiend]

Y'all really so sure Thief of Time is a good place for a beginner to jump on? I seem to remember that it requires that you know at least a little about the Auditors, Susan and her whole deal, and the time monks from whatever the hell book they debuted in. An 8-Bit fan might be better off starting with the Rincewind books, since the tone is roughly similiar and Rincewind could be fairly described as a less malevolent Black Mage. (Twoflower when he appears being more than a little Fighterish himself, after all.)

Didn't Pratchett say sometime not too long ago that he was gradually winding the series down?

Thief of Time was actually the first book in the series I'd read, and it actually did a really good job of getting me into things. It does a pretty good of introducing things, and yeah I didn't exactly understand everything that was going on, but I did know that it was some crazy awesome nonsense that totally kicked ass. Like I said, since I didn't really know all of the backstory and such that was there, the tendency was to accept things as they were, and the main body of the plot was straightforward enough that you didn't need an extensive understanding of that backstory to decode what exactly was going on.

A big part of it (to tread into the waters of total bullshit) is that the story pretty much happens through Lobsang's perspective, so you really only need to understand things as they relate to him - you don't need to know the history of the Ankh Morpork Thieves' Guild, you just need to know there's a city named Ankh Morpork with a thieves' guild and that Lobsang was in it. Where Susan comes into the story, it's okay if she seems like a random element that you don't really understand, because from the point of view of the story she's supposed to be a random element that you don't really understand.

[Jason_Voorhees]

You should really try and find The Last Hero somewhere, it was this big tablet-size fully-illustrated Cohen story, Rincewind and Carrot and Leonard of Quirm get mixed up in that shit too, really it was fantastic.


Yeah I've read The Last Hero about three times already. Actually, I've read all Pratchett's books more than three times (except for Eric and Thud! which I recently obtained), and I plan to read them again. I plan to get the hard cover versions of all the books too.

And I liked Equal Rites. I liked the idea of a female Wizard too.

[Mashirosen]

lots of sense-making
Fair enough! So are the Tiffany Aching books really that crapular? I'm kind of burnt out on the main Discworld books and have idly considered giving them a try, but if it's more everything Granny does is always right even if/especially when she's an enormous cooze about it, I won't bother.

[Jason_Voorhees]

Fair enough! So are the Tiffany Aching books really that crapular? I'm kind of burnt out on the main Discworld books and have idly considered giving them a try, but if it's more everything Granny does is always right even if/especially when she's an enormous cooze about it, I won't bother.


Heh I liked "The Wee Free Men" and "A Hat Full Of Sky", but that's mostly due to the Nac Mac Feegle, or the "Pictsies" as they'll often say.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Why o why does The Last Hero only come in large-ass versions?

[Fifthfiend]

Fair enough! So are the Tiffany Aching books really that crapular? I'm kind of burnt out on the main Discworld books and have idly considered giving them a try, but if it's more everything Granny does is always right even if/especially when she's an enormous cooze about it, I won't bother.

Wee Free Men - Absolutely fantastic. There aren't words enough for me to give this book the praise it deserves. Magical in every conceivable sense of the word.

Hat Full of Sky - Pretty good up until you realize it took everything you loved about Wee Free Men and fucked it right up.

[UrbanSpaceman]

Interesting Times to me is the funniest and most entertaining, Small Gods is the one I find to be the "deepest" and have the best social and political commentary.

That said, I'm a fan of all the Discworld books, a few of my other favourites include Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum for the "holy crap how's Granny Weatherwax going to win THIS one" factor.

I also like the broad story arc that includes amongst others The Truth, Going Postal and arguably Monstrous Regiment, as over the course of these books the Discworld undergoes a credible (within the confines of its own twisted reality) industrial and communications revolution, and it's a marvel to watch the social evolution of a whole world unfolding before your eyes.

[Steel Shadow]

Small gods is the only discworld book I havent read. Ok, that and the rodent one. I just couldn't get into it. If I see it again, I guess I'll give it a shot. It's strange, 'cuase thats the book that introduces the time monks and they plain rock

[Jason_Voorhees]

That said, I'm a fan of all the Discworld books, a few of my other favourites include Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum for the "holy crap how's Granny Weatherwax going to win THIS one" factor.

Heh, I love it how Pratchett portrays Elves as villains. I hated them throughout the entire LOTR trilogy because of their arrogance. And not the open arrogance that Thief practices which is cool, but the subtle, grey and more menacing one. That pissed me off somewhat.

[UrbanSpaceman]

Heh, I love it how Pratchett portrays Elves as villains. I hated them throughout the entire LOTR trilogy because of their arrogance. And not the open arrogance that Thief practices which is cool, but the subtle, grey and more menacing one. That pissed me off somewhat.

Yeah, Tolkien's elves seem to have an almost nazi-esque "master race" complex, and Pratchett conveys that sinister aspect of their personality really well.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Pyramids, Small Gods, The Science of Discworld (because I'm doing astronomy)

'nuff said.

[Fifthfiend]

Pyramids, Small Gods, The Science of Discworld (because I'm doing astronomy)

'nuff said.

Pyramids was crap, is what's enough said!

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Well that sucks for me, then, because I just bought it.

[Steel Shadow]

ah come on, the sphinx part was ok! 's better than SG at least.

[Jason_Voorhees]

Well, I liked Pyramids. Then again, I liked all Pratchett's novels.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Pyramids was crap, is what's enough said!

That's what YOU think. I enjoyed You Bastard's calculations, thank you very much!

[Althane]

List of ones I have read:
Monstrous Regiment
Thief of Time
The Fifth Elephant
Going Postal
Some other one I'm completely forgetting but ... The Word.

Dammit, I hate how I remeber the book name when I'm writing a sentence that says I don't remeber. Heh.

Reading Reaper Man (so far, so good).

Favorite? Tossup between Going Postal and Thief of Time.

[Fifthfiend]

That's what YOU think.

That's what I know, cuz I'm right!

I enjoyed You Bastard's calculations, thank you very much!

You enjoyed crap, is what you enjoyed!

Except you really didn't enjoy it at all!

Cause it was crap!

[DarkCORN!]

I like "Reaper Man". Death is hilarious.

[Onion Knight]

I thought small gods was great, from what I remember anyways. Not read it in a while :/
Thought Om was great, and.... just.... all of it ^_^

[Toast]

I concur about Reaper Man, my first and still my favourite from Terry Pratchett.

[Buddha Fett]

Oh, there is no way I couldn"t not[I] get in on this one.

My current favorite's [I]Night Watch, followed closely by Thief of Time and Going Postal.

But then again, Reaper Man was pretty good, too.

[GatoFiero]

Sourcery is my favorite by far.

I mean really, you can't top the sock with a half brick scene or the portion where the four horsmen get some of their mounts stolen.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

My favorite is any of the City Watch and Samuel Vimes ones... Thud was amazing and I just finished Jingo which was really good. I love Night Watch too, but all of them are good.