Just finished the umpteenth Discworld novel. His stuff is really funny, especially for people in the know about fantasy/D&D stereotypes.
Mort is my favorite Pratchett book so far.
Good Omens which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman is brill! :)
Loves Terry Pratchett. Just started The Wee Free Men and it's just brilliant :D
I'm lucky enough to have all of the Discworld series up to and including Monstrous Regiment. I even have a book stamp from Clarecraft of the Librarian. I LOVE THESE BOOKS! I'm also lucky enough to have a friend from England that's a fan and can explain some of the "you gotta be from there" jokes.
This is probably the most brilliant author ever. I love his world, his messed-up logic, his... his Rincewind!
Favorite book?
I like Going Postal
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Loves Terry Pratchett. Just started The Wee Free Men and it's just brilliant :D
The Tiffany Aching Books are awesome. Child fiction my arse, just plain great books.
Pratchett in general just rules.
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Love his work. in fact, he's partially the reason I was inspired to break so many conventions when it comes to world design. odd story: I actually saw a high-res "map" of discworld years before I actually managed to read the books. I'm currently on Wyrd Sisters, and I'm trying to read them in order (even though i know you don't have to), but the bookstore is making that difficult by always missing the ocasional one. I had to skip and go back to the Light Fantastic, and now I have to wait for Pyramids. Favorite character? Rincewind. No contest. Favortie book (so far)? Mort. doesn't have Rincewind, but it was the most fun one so far to read. Can't wait 'till I get to Soul Music.
Pyramids! That is an amazing one. Can't believe I forgot it. You will LOVE it. Definetly one of his top books.
The Watch books are pretty good.
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Love his work. in fact, he's partially the reason I was inspired to break so many conventions when it comes to world design.
One of the things I long held to that he put into words so simply has been a key part of my homebrew and all my games ever since: "People are people, no matter what they are."
Man I loves the Pratchett.
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He has such an excellent turn of phrase and a complete grasp of human nature.
I have all of the Discworld series. Some of them I have to buy new copies for because I've read them to pieces. Literally.
EDIT: Speaking of human nature...
Small Gods. Reading it now. I love the message behind it. Om is funny.
I have just finished the Bromeliad. I especially liked the first story, truckers. It is a nice parody on religion and shopping.
Read it, then you will see what I mean.
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I have just finished the Bromeliad. I especially liked the first story, truckers. It is a nice parody on religion and shopping.
Read it, then you will see what I mean.
Got it (and Where's My Cow?) for my nephew. Ok, so he's only 1 at the moment. It's never too early to introduce children to quality entertainment material that will warp their thinking appropriately.
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It's much easier to make a list of bad Pratchett books than it is to make a list of the great Pratchett books. In fact, I've went ahead and cataloged all of his bad books. List Below.
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I LIKE DEATH THE BEST. HIM AND THE FIVE RIDERS OF THE APOCOLYPSE
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
A band of travellers from Ankh-Morpork have arrived in the town of Bad Blintz. The band consists of a boy with a flute named Keith, a tomcat called Maurice and a lot of rats. A lot of very smart rats. However, as the town suffers from a curiously well-timed rat infestation and Keith and Maurice prepare to enact 'the scam', it becomes clear that something else is at work in the sewers and tunnels under the town. Something that takes an interest in the curiously smart rodents...
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel aimed at younger readers, released in 2001. It was, arguably, the novel that finally broke Pratchett in the USA, where it won the Carnegie Medal and won more notice than his previous books (which had been a cult success at best). Subsequent Discworld books began to hit the New York Times bestseller lists, finally giving Pratchett some Stateside success after almost two decades as Britain's biggest-selling author (well, until the arrival of a certain J.K. Rowling).
It's an interesting novel, most notably because Pratchett makes exactly zero concessions to his apparently intended audience. The novel is written in the same manner as his adult books and in fact is actually among the most disturbing Discworld novels, with the revelation of the antagonist in the book being one of Pratchett's more revolting moments. It may have talking rats in it, but the tone is closer to Watership Down (complete with some pretty savage fights and deaths) than to Beatrix Potter. Pratchett seems to do this deliberately, with the rats' belief in a utopian future of animal cooperation stemming from reading a children's book called Mr. Bunnsy Has An Adventure, which becomes a totem of their tribe. Pratchett paints the internal divisions of the rat gang and each character in some detail, with his traditional economic-but-effective storytelling. The book has a darker tone than most of his novels, and whilst there are still a few laughs here, it's a more intense book than many of the Discworld series.
It's also quite snappy, coming in at a breezy 270 pages, avoiding the bloat some of the more recent Discworld books have suffered from. Pratchett sets up his plot and characters, tell his story with impressive depth and characterisation and gets out all in the time that some more traditional fantasy authors are still using to clear their throats.
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (****) is Pratchett at his more impressive, telling a darker story than normal but with his trademark wit and skills at character-building. It's also a complete stand-alone, with no connections at all to the rest of the Discworld series and can be read completely independently. It is available now in the UK and USA.
pTerry is hands down my favorite author. I am saddened by the fact that someday he may not be writing any more, but I'm more than happy that his daughter is going to be taking over.
pTerry is hands down my favorite author. I am saddened by the fact that someday he may not be writing any more, but I'm more than happy that his daughter is going to be taking over.
Apparently that was a misquote. Rhianna is going to potentially be writing spin-off or companion works (more stuff like THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD or the DISCWORLD COMPANION), but she will not be continuing the core DISCWORLD series itself, as she didn't feel that was right.
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Pratchett is one of the few authors whose works make me laugh out loud. He has had some fantastic quotes, both in books and from him directly. One of my all time favorites:
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
If you like Pratchett, you might enjoy Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The book, the author's read-aloud version and the BBC radio drama of it are all great.
I just finished the latest Discworld novel, 'Snuff'. It was a bit of an unusual read for me. First off, it reeeally dragged its' feet in the beginning, to the point where I had a hard time motivating myself to continue reading. I think that's a first for me, from a Discworld novel.
But once it had gotten past the initial hurdles, I hard a hard time putting it down. I think this book is probably one of my all-time favourites, even if the basic premise isn't particular unique to the setting. Really well done imho.
I usually consider Pratchett a master of well-written dialogue, which brings up the second unusual thing for me, in Snuff. The dialogue is uncharacteristically long-winded. Maybe it's just been a while since I last read anything from him, but when it turns into a page and a half of monologue every time a character opens his mouth, it felt a bit 'off'.
But not 'off' enough to detract from the quality of the story. IMHO.