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The Colour of Magic. Finally.
I finally got...
I finally got around to get to read more than four and a half Discworld books (blame the Nashville public libraries) and I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!! Yeah. Not much to say.
What are the best Discworld books?
submitted by Tiffany W., age 11, somewhere round here
(December 25, 2011 - 4:08 pm)
(December 25, 2011 - 4:08 pm)
"Best" is of course a subjective measurement, but my personal favourites are the Watch series, beginning with Guards! Guards!. Outside of those, my favourite is the stand-alone The Truth. Basically I prefer stuff set in Ankh-Morpork, although I've never been all that interested in the Moist books. *is shot*
(December 27, 2011 - 8:01 am)
I've been unable to read any books by Terry Pratchett. I've tried several and always got bored before I'd gotten to the second chapter.
(December 27, 2011 - 10:30 am)
Mabye that's because it gets interesting after the first chapter.
(December 28, 2011 - 10:46 am)
...But they don't have chapters! (Well, the Moist books do and... do the Tiffany Aching books have chapters? I can't remember... But most of them don't...)
My personal favourite Discworld book is... uh... Probably The Truth or Feet of Clay or The Fifth Elephant or Jingo. In general my favourites are the ones that heavily involve Vetinari. Although I tend to melt into a squealing puddle of goo whenever Young Sam makes an appearance.
I, unlike ZNZ, adore Moist. I like conmen in general, and he's like... the quintessential conman I guess. Also I love Adora, which may have something to do with it.
The Watch books are definitely the best, though. Vimes is awesome. (The Truth is so wonderful, I think, because it mirrors the Watch books in a lot of ways-- it deals with a plot to overthrow Vetinari and the uncovering and solving thereof, as do most of the Watch books (All of them? Except, what, Jingo and Snuff? [although I don't really count Snuff as a Watch book, it's more about Vimes really]. Ooh, and Thud! too. Anyway). Plus, the characters are pure, unadulterated awesome. Every single one of them. Including Wuffles.)
Of the Death books, Hogfather is my favourite. (I think it's everyone's favourite?)
Of the Lancre books... probably Witches Abroad. Or Masquerade.
Tiffany Aching, I Shall Wear Midnight.
Moist, Making Money. (Which was the... third... Discworld book I read, after Thud! [bad place to start] and Hogfather.
Wizards, Interesting Times and The Last Continent (which are two halves of the same story, like Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic, so I always count them as one)
My least favorite is probably Eric, because it isn't very... Discworld-y.
(December 29, 2011 - 10:27 pm)
The Tiffany Aching books have chapters. Those are the four Discworld books that I've read before.
The other one half was The Last Continent, and that was good, but at some point I decided that I'd be better off reading The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic first.
Death books? That's good news. Death is awesome.
(December 30, 2011 - 10:11 am)
The Death books, in order, are Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather, and Thief of Time. And they are indeed awesome.
(December 30, 2011 - 1:12 pm)
I've read the Tiffany Aching books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, and Thud! (because it was the only book by him that I could find and I really wanted something, even if it was in the middle of a sequence I hadn't read). I don't think I have any right to say which Discworld books are the best, since I've read so few, but my favorites that I've read are the Tiffany Aching books (especially Wee Free Men), The Light Fantastic, and Thud!.
(December 31, 2011 - 8:45 pm)
I actually haven't read any yet.
Yes, yes, I know. I have to. Believe me, Pratchett is right under Tolkien on my books to read list.
(January 3, 2012 - 5:37 pm)
I've read a very sad number of Pratchett books; only The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Small Gods, The Wee Free Men, and A Hat Full of Sky. I'v been meaning to read more, but I've been pretty preoccupied with The Lord of the Rings (which I just finished yesterday!! HOORAY!! Aragorn is zarking awesome!) so I haven't had the time. After I finish Leviathan though, which I'm reading on my Kindle, I'm definitely going to read more Discworld. :)
(January 17, 2012 - 10:56 pm)
Hm. Well, I can't decide, so I'm just reading them in order (even though I can't get Equal Rites) at the moment. I've heard a bit about it, and I suspect that it's going to be about Eskarina Smith, who appears in I Shall Wear Midnight.
My total Discworld count (in order of being read by me): The Wee Free Men, A Hatful of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight (<3<3<3), The Last Continent (most of it), The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Mort.
My favorite was definitely I Shall Wear Midnight, and A Hatful of Sky was really funny. Mort really was a great book. My least favorite was The Wee Free Men.
(January 29, 2012 - 11:23 am)