Terry Pratchett - Discworld [Archive]

han_the_badger

17-06-2004, 01:08 PM

Can't believe there isn't already a thread :eek:

To anyone who's never read a Pratchett novel, you're missing out. The Discworld novels are the best, tho he has written others. The Discworld series has several themes running through it, and several characters return again and again.

My favourite books are the City Watch, especially Night Watch. Sam Vimes is genius. Death is fantastic though, and the witches are always good for a laugh, particularly Nanny Ogg.

My least favourite are the Rincewind books. I just mostly find him annoying.

People, if you have never read a Discworld book then go now and read one. Any one. You can pick up the story later if you get one of the later books. Good ones are:

Guards Guards
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Wyrd Sisters
Small Gods

all of these are ones that start a theme so you can progress through if you like them. Enjoy! :)

Mort

17-06-2004, 02:01 PM

Can't believe there isn't already a thread :eek:

There should be two. One of which was made by me.

han_the_badger

17-06-2004, 02:11 PM

mmm. Looked all through the media bit and couldn't see one. Are they in a different bit?

*Just done search as well. No luck except in random other threads :confused:

Drunk muser

17-06-2004, 02:15 PM

My least favourite are the Rincewind books. I just mostly find him annoying.
Good ones are:

rincewind just rocks! :o
and how can you pick a fave? :eek:

Coffeebug

17-06-2004, 05:22 PM

I actually have had Wyrd Sisters for ages and haven't read it yet because it was part of a series and I assumed I should read the others first and never got around to it. I will put it on my vast and wobbly books-waiting-to-be-read pile then, since I can just read it on its own LOL

CommunistOlga

18-06-2004, 09:46 PM

I'd say that the Wyrd Sisters are far from being the best of the series, so if you don't like it, give some other DW book a go, they're absolutely mesmerizing.

Also...
Not exactly about the Discworld, but...

Pratchett co-wrote a book with Neil Gaiman, called Good Omens.
Flabbergasting. Highly recommended.

Anyone got A Hat Full of Sky yet?

And he's planning to release a book called Going Postal in October/November. Got to admire the man's productivity.

-Nova-

19-06-2004, 11:48 AM

Also...
Not exactly about the Discworld, but...

Pratchett co-wrote a book with Neil Gaiman, called Good Omens.
Flabbergasting. Highly recommended.

Undoubtedly one of the best and funniest books ever written. A must-read!
(I also recommend Gaiman's Sandman comics. Mesmerizing.)

Princess of Everything

19-06-2004, 01:11 PM

I think the Death trilogy is by far the best. Watch trilogy isn't too bad either. I wasn't overly impressed, I guess it's because I had just broken up with my bf when I started reading them and he was obsessed with Pratchett. :rolleyes: I should start again.

han_the_badger

22-06-2004, 01:04 PM

rincewind just rocks! :o
and how can you pick a fave? :eek:

I love all the books but Night Watch blew me away. I think maybe cos Pratchett managed to go with a whole new angle on the books that made me appreciate them even more.

The Rincewind stories are ok but I just find him annoying. Love the last continent tho :)

Mort

23-06-2004, 12:49 PM

Coffeebug

24-06-2004, 06:24 PM

Oh thats even better then - cheers :)

Blisster

26-06-2004, 05:07 PM

I will have to agree with han about rincewind. I was about to give up on the discworld books. I read Mort and quite liked that one, then i started on the colour of magic and Eric, but somehow they didnt manage to hold my attention for too long. i thought that if i didnt like rincewind, the discworld series probably wasnt my thing.

Ill give it another go now :D

han_the_badger

29-06-2004, 12:25 PM

definitely try again
read guards guards, it's one of my favourites :D also its the start of a series so you miss nothing

CommunistOlga

29-06-2004, 02:02 PM

Rincewind is awesome...

But my favourites are the UU wizards.
The Last Continent, Hogfather - genius.

Mort

30-06-2004, 08:12 AM

Rincewind is awesome...

But my favourites are the UU wizards.
The Last Continent, Hogfather - genius.
Rincewind is indeed awsome. He's best in The Last Continent.
And the UU faculty... The Dean adn the Archancellor are two of the best characters created. Hmmm... what book was the one with the shopping trolleys that morphed into the big shopping mall?

Sapphire

30-06-2004, 08:22 AM

Mmmm I need something to read this summer, I might get one of his books because I'm intrigued now.. :D

Mort

30-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Mmmm I need something to read this summer, I might get one of his books because I'm intrigued now.. :D
Get one! AQnd seeing as you like Australia so much, get the Lost Continent.

Sapphire

30-06-2004, 01:08 PM

Thanks for the recomendation!

I'm reading a book about Australia at the moment, it was a christmas present from my aunt. It's "Songlines of destiny" by Barbara Wood, a good book but it has 460 pages and I'm still on page 103 :o

Drunk muser

30-06-2004, 01:49 PM

Get one! AQnd seeing as you like Australia so much, get the Lost Continent.
OOOOOOOOOOOH, didn't know it was about Oz!! :eek:

CommunistOlga

30-06-2004, 08:36 PM

Rincewind is indeed awsome. He's best in The Last Continent.
And the UU faculty... The Dean adn the Archancellor are two of the best characters created. Hmmm... what book was the one with the shopping trolleys that morphed into the big shopping mall?
Aaaaaah, hammit.
I haven't read it in a while, but I...
*Something goes "click" in her head*
Reaper Man! That's it!

CommunistOlga

30-06-2004, 08:37 PM

Get one! AQnd seeing as you like Australia so much, get the Lost Continent.
I agree on that.

It's one of my fave DW books, excellent stuff.

Mort

01-07-2004, 11:09 AM

OOOOOOOOOOOH, didn't know it was about Oz!! :eek:
The fact that it has Rincewind riding on the back of a Kangaroo on the cover means nothing then.

Mort

01-07-2004, 11:10 AM

Reaper Man! That's it!
Bingo. Twas awsome.
The Dean is a great character, always gets affected the worst and always gets the blame. Poor sod.

CommunistOlga

01-07-2004, 12:04 PM

Bingo. Twas awsome.
The Dean is a great character, always gets affected the worst and always gets the blame. Poor sod.
But he's so... So... Irresistable.
Him and his rock-ishness in Soul Music. Mmmm.

I love the Bursar :D

++Out of Cheese Error++

Mort

01-07-2004, 12:07 PM

But he's so... So... Irresistable.
Him and his rock-ishness in Soul Music. Mmmm.

I love the Bursar :D

++Out of Cheese Error++
Ahhh, HEX. As all computers should be... bloody tempromental.

Drunk muser

01-07-2004, 12:08 PM

The fact that it has Rincewind riding on the back of a Kangaroo on the cover means nothing then.
:o haven't read it OR seen the cover design. smartarse :p

Mort

01-07-2004, 12:11 PM

:o haven't read it OR seen the cover design. smartarse :p
I know. i just felt like being annoying.

Drunk muser

01-07-2004, 12:19 PM

i just felt like being annoying.
didn't take much effort :o :p

Aziraphale

16-07-2004, 10:20 PM

hey hey, please calm down!!!

hehehe, i only just caught wind of this thread, how think am i? Fav. books have gotta be the watch books, although some of the rincewind book are pretty good...
Howcomes no-one has mentioned the Carpet People trilogy??? Can't be beaten!!!

theimpressiveclergyman

16-07-2004, 10:24 PM

Mort

18-07-2004, 02:33 PM

didn't take much effort :o :p
It never does.

han_the_badger

28-07-2004, 02:29 PM

Through me. :D [/GLORYHOG]

Carpet People seems pretty cool- haven't actually read it, mind...

Carpet people was the first pratchett book i read. It's a whole other perspective on the mundane life of a carpet. It's really good. It's not discworld tho which is probably why it's been overlooked :)

Mort

28-07-2004, 03:27 PM

Anyone remember the Truckers stop-motion programme that was one years and years ago? I can;t remember if it was a little mini series on CBBC or justa 2 half telemovie.

han_the_badger

02-08-2004, 12:23 PM

I remember it vaguely. Did they do Diggers and WIngs as well. I can't remember. It was all such a long time ago. Also I can't remember if I actually saw it or if I'm just remembering my own visualisation of the books lol :p

ZeKat

13-08-2004, 11:01 PM

yeaaah...

Pratchett fans :cool:

Im one... :p

I must have read almost all of them... The Carpet People, Diggers Truckers and.. the last one and Johnny and the Dead...

Good Omen is one of the best book I ever read (and I read quite a lot...)

The Discworld... well, i have read them all (maybe not the very last ones... the newest i've got is Night Watch :$ ) at least twice...

They're kind of ... somehow... buying a new one is like getting news from old friends... doesn't matter if news are good or bad... that's news :D
One of my favourites remains The Truth... because that's a theme ... the power of words... that I have always found fascinating...

Now Im sure you Brits can understand more that I will ever do, english (and Pratchett's absolutely wonderful grasp of it) remaining a foreign language to me... (and... translating being my job means that i know much too well what's lost in translation... so ... no way im gonna read them in french)

...

I love his books so much that I chose Strata for my ... thesis... well... the thing you have to write in order not to waste your university years...

Choosing a subject as fine as that only made it bearable given the teachers I had to endure... but oh well... that was loong ago...

It's becoming quite late at night and my mind's trying to reverse to its built-in french thinking and writing mode...

weeeelll... good night y'all

han_the_badger

08-10-2004, 02:17 PM

Hey have any of you read the new one - going postal? I'm reading it now. Can't put it down. Also just read a hatfull of sky. That was really good. Granny Weatherwax has returned :)

Also he's just writing the next sequel to that and then he's gonna write another city watch one. YAY! :D

Freddy

09-10-2004, 08:27 AM

My bro's really into the discworld books but i just never really got into em i dont read that much anyway

Freddy

11-10-2004, 08:12 PM

Are the books any good, i might read em

Mort

12-10-2004, 12:35 PM

Are the books any good, i might read em
Yes, they are. Extremely good. Excellent. Brilliant. Awsome. Anthropomorphic.

Mort

14-10-2004, 03:15 AM

Going Postal's just been released over here. Dammit. I want money!

Vindaloo Curry

14-10-2004, 12:17 PM

My family has always been into terry pratchett... i was practically brought up on his books. I was give truckers, diggers and wings when i was 8 and then i moved onto the johhny series and now im reading through the discworld books.

Its absolutely wonderful, his imagination and comic genius. Amazes me how he can just create a whole world with religions, towns, creatures and everything with a pen and paper. The man is quite obviously a genius.

I have "the amazing maurice and his educated rodents" signed by the man himself. Im quite proud of that one. :D

Well thats it for my ranting. Last words - "Terry Pratchett is a genius" :)

Freddy

14-10-2004, 07:56 PM

Yes, they are. Extremely good. Excellent. Brilliant. Awsome. Anthropomorphic.

I'll try get a few of the books off my bro then

Mort

26-11-2004, 12:36 PM

Oh dear me. oh dear me. I don;t believe it. Mr Pratchett was on Triple J radio station at some point recently. On the breakfast show and I didn't know. But you can download the interview from here:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/audio_alpha_T.htm

SacredSilence

26-11-2004, 12:40 PM

:ohmy: Didn`t see this thread before!

My daughter loves Terry Pratchett and has Wyrd Systers on DVD.

I`m hoping to get her some cd books for crimbo this year...Just reminded me to get my arse into gear on that one!

Sapphire

26-11-2004, 02:27 PM

I'm currently reding Mort, I should finish it this weekend I think

Drunk muser

26-11-2004, 02:59 PM

I'm currently reding Mort, I should finish it this weekend I think
One of my favs!!!!

You should read 'The last continent' for obvious reasons, if you haven't already. So bloodt funny :LOL:

Sonny Jim

06-12-2004, 07:56 PM

my bro has red nearly all of them but i've never really got into any of them.

in your world

06-12-2004, 08:31 PM

i'm a big discworld fan and i think that rincewind is great, one of my fave characters, i like vimes too. however i find the witches quite annoying.
has anyone got going postal? i should be getting it for christmas

Mort

07-12-2004, 09:42 AM

has anyone got going postal? i should be getting it for christmas
I got it a couple of days ago. Am a little way in. Tis goodness as usual.
I also got The Art of Discworld.
Paul Kidby is amazing.

Possibly not 56k friendly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/death.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/rincewindscream.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/pyramids.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/librarian.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/errol.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/sobermuse/detritusbow.jpg

Also, go visit www.paulkidby.co.uk

in your world

09-12-2004, 10:53 AM

meh us broadbanders care little for such mortals, anyway those pics are awesome, i have the last hero, which seems to be the same sorta thing but those pictures look much better.
i love the parallels with real-world art, gotta love the rincewind/munch's the scream and errol/ durer's hare. the librarian pic looks a bit familiar too

CommunistOlga

09-12-2004, 10:58 AM

I finished Going Postal a few days ago. Absolute brilliance, most certainly maybe even in the top 10 or so, and that's saying something.

I'd love to get Art, but... Is it worth it? Well, obviously it is, but... It's pricey, hardback an' all...

*Takes opportunity to plug in some shameless advertisement for self since Kidby is being discussed*
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11585054/
I really should make it darker, though. Too bad it's only, oh, a few hundred kilometres away from me now >_>

Mort

09-12-2004, 11:03 AM

I finished Going Postal a few days ago. Absolute brilliance, most certainly maybe even in the top 10 or so, and that's saying something.

I'd love to get Art, but... Is it worth it? Well, obviously it is, but... It's pricey, hardback an' all...

It depends. I suppose you'd only know if you were to look through it. Go into the book shop an skip through it and see if you realy want it. I just fell inlove from the beggining. The Mona Ogg is plasterd on the front page.

Hehe, your Grim Squeaker is filth. Aceness!

Edit: I'm up to the point where Moist has got back from Sto Lat and is about to go on the date with the lassy.

The fact that Terry's using chapters is throwing me a bit. I'm not used to it from him!

ZeKat

13-01-2005, 11:20 AM

Well.. I've just finished The Monstruous Regiment

Which is by far the worst Pratchett I've ever read :(

It begins badly with the drawings on the front page by Mister Idontrememberhisname (Give me Kirby baaaaaaaaaack :'( )

It doesn't improve afterwards... this plot is... i'd almost say nonexistent...

I've read all the Discwolrd books and been amazed at Pratchett's skill for knotting together things that had no apparent connection.
Well...this time he forgot that part of his job :(

I've had the impression that dear old Vimes appears only when Pratchett doesn't know how to get his heroins out of their problems...

Still... if the story is not up to what I expected to read, characters are, especially Lieutenant Blouse

Well I won't say more so as not to spoil entirely the thing but I was thoroughly disappointed :(

I'll by Going postal anyway... one bad book out of .. what 24 ? 25 ? isnt bad, after all :D

Mort

13-01-2005, 12:20 PM

I'll by Going postal anyway... one bad book out of .. what 24 ? 25 ? isnt bad, after all :D
Try 30.

~screenager~

31-03-2005, 12:22 PM

I liked Monstrous Regiment a lot. Read it again, it's a grower, like Going Postal.
Funny that you should say the plot is non-existant: I'm listening to this interview with Terry Pratchett right now and he was just musing that at one point about half the Dutch army was made up of women, including a sergeant who made a point of 'spotting' other women as they joined.

GP annoyed me a lot in a few ways, especially because Vimes was seen so much but never spoke.
Can't wait for Thud! though.

That is not my moo cow. That is Foul Ole Ron.

:LOL:

inn

01-04-2005, 05:51 PM

I got into them by accident, I had to abduct a book to amuse myself while my bf was being ill and picked up soul music :D Good stuff. Death of Rats :D :D :D Am now reading the series from the beginning. Still reading The Light fantastic.

~screenager~

02-04-2005, 12:23 PM

Mort

02-04-2005, 12:32 PM

The first three are total crap. Sorry, but PTerry has said it himself. And watch out for Moving Pictures and The Last Continent as well, I just couldn't enjoy those books.

Anything featuring Sam Vimes is generally brilliant. (Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment)
A fair few people have said that they don't like the Rincewind books. I love Rincewind, one of the best characters on the Disc. The only book i havent realy liked a lot is Eric. It just seems as if he rushed that book too much. Its short and it skips through everything realy quickly.

~screenager~

02-04-2005, 04:26 PM

Kymii

05-07-2005, 10:51 AM

Kinda ressurecting this thread, but never mind.
I love Pratchett, I would but all of his books if I could afford them.
Just read hay full of sky. Aceness! :D
I love the witches and the ones with the city guard in. Death also rocks! :D
They are all so ace! :D:D:D

Mort

05-07-2005, 10:54 AM

And the ending is crappy as well. I liked The Last Hero though.

I realise that I probably sound like a Rincewind hater now, but I don't. I love Sourcery and Interesting Times; I think the ending of TLF, where he looks into Trymon's eyes and the disregard for human life, is fabulous.
Thing with Rincewind, though, it's always 'Oh no, I have to do XYZ or the world will be destroyed.'
Most of his books follow a similar path and have some things that are almost exactly the same. For example: Mort and Soul Music. They both have a bar scene, in the mended drum, where Death is trying to get drunk. Exceptionaly similar.

inn

05-07-2005, 03:54 PM

Am now on the verge to start sorcery.

Favourite or the best I think so far personally is still Soul music sorta joint with Equal rites followed by Mort.

My bf brought the art of discworld the other week and it has some amusing commentry to go with the picys :happy:

dumpenguin

10-07-2005, 07:47 PM

I've had the privelege of interviewing Terry Pratchett (jusdt before the release of Wee Fre Men) and he really is as random in person as his books..asked about quite why he decided to use an orangatan as the librarian and he went off in to this tangent about wild librarians (meaning of course orangatans) and didnt realise his mistake for about 5minutes all the while I was siting there shaking and going red from stifling my laughter cause we were recording the interview :LOL:

I'd recommend Good Omens to read, it was the first Pratchett novel I read when I was about 14 and it got me hooked...quite complex but worth sticking out :) Haven't had a chance to read any Pratchett in ages, I must go find some..... *abandons uni lit reading in search of DW novel*

Mort

26-10-2005, 01:04 PM

Got Thud! today. Weeeehehehehhe!

inn

27-10-2005, 02:05 PM

I am now about to start wyrd sisters :D

KirstyW

27-10-2005, 03:45 PM

I am now about to start wyrd sisters :D
Ah Wyrd Sister my first PTerry book, given as a 16th birthday present (many many years ago) and I've been hooked ever since.

Fav has to be Nightwatch but Where's my cow? comes close :LOL:
Worst: Light Fantastic

Best non-Discworld: Good Omens
And for cat owners check out The Unadulterated Cat :p

I have all three discworld games and I'm the proud owner of the Clarecraft Unseen University
http://www.jendaveallen.com/2004_vt_ma_ca/boston/con_ankmorpork-blds4.jpg 225 of 250

ZeKat

02-11-2005, 07:56 PM

Arrrrrrrgh.

Help.

Been browsing the Net for more than 15 minutes and I failed to find a complete, up-to-date and chronologically right list of ALL Discworld books.

So would you please answer two questions ?

One ... am I dumb ? When googling, I usually find what I'm searching in less than five minutes (and less than five mouseclicks...)
So why not this time ?

Two... the last book I read was "Monstruous Regiment"... so what comes next ?

A Hat Full of Sky ?
Going Postal ?
Thud ?

Thanks.

citizen eraser

02-11-2005, 08:06 PM

1. The Colour of Magic (1983)
2. The Light Fantastic (1986)
3. Equal Rites (1987)
4. Mort (1987)
5. Sourcery (1988)
6. Wyrd Sisters (1988)
7. Pyramids (1989)
8. Guards! Guards! (1989)
9. Eric (1990)
10. Moving Pictures (1990)
11. Reaper Man (1991)
12. Witches Abroad (1991)
13. Small Gods (1992)
14. Lords and Ladies (1992)
15. Men at Arms (1993)
16. Soul Music (1994)
17. Interesting Times (1994)
18. Maskerade (1995)
19. Feet of Clay (1996)
20. Hogfather (1996)
21. Jingo (1997)
22. The Last Continent (1998)
23. Carpe Jugulum (1998)
24. The Fifth Elephant (1999)
25. The Truth (2000)
The Last Hero (2001) (with Paul Kidby)
26. Thief of Time (2001)
27. Night Watch (2002)
28. Monstrous Regiment (2003)
29. Going Postal (2004)
30. Thud! (2005)

Hope that helps.

Mort

27-11-2005, 03:04 PM

I want everythign on here!
http://www.paulkidby.com/

inn

27-11-2005, 03:38 PM

I want everythign on here!
http://www.paulkidby.com/
Cheers chuck you just helped me out with some xmas pressies :D

Mort

27-11-2005, 03:39 PM

Cheers chuck you just helped me out with some xmas pressies :D
Any for me?

inn

27-11-2005, 03:42 PM

Any for me?

Hehe sorry unfortunately not :p

Mort

27-11-2005, 03:43 PM

Hehe sorry unfortunately not :p
Pretty please!

inn

27-11-2005, 03:52 PM

Pretty please!

I can't I'm poor :( but if you're really nice you can have a badge :LOL:

I don't know what to get :unsure: colour or pencil. Grr the original prints are 400 quid. I want a death of rats print :(

inn

28-11-2005, 12:57 PM

Do I get:

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/colourprints/palerider.jpg

orrrr...

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/pencilprints/reaperman.jpg

:unsure:

CommunistOlga

28-11-2005, 01:00 PM

Get the first one ;) It's Death rockin' out on the coolest bike ever.

inn

28-11-2005, 01:09 PM

Get the first one ;) It's Death rockin' out on the coolest bike ever.

hehe I think that one is cool too.....but ugh its for someone else so I dunno : /

CommunistOlga

28-11-2005, 01:16 PM

hehe I think that one is cool too.....but ugh its for someone else so I dunno : /
Well, I'd still pick that one, but choosing things for other people is a bitch :/ How big do they come? They both look a little small.:$

Black Mamba

28-11-2005, 01:20 PM

How the fuck can you read them?

Honestly,I tried to,but couldnt..got me sleepy.

CommunistOlga

28-11-2005, 01:24 PM

Blasphemer:eek:
Pratchett is one of the best around.

I'm currently tearing myself between him and Robert Rankin, though. That guy's a genius and may just win the fight.

Black Mamba

28-11-2005, 01:30 PM

Blasphemer:eek:
Pratchett is one of the best around.

I'm currently tearing myself between him and Robert Rankin, though. That guy's a genius and may just win the fight.
I can see that he's loved but...I tried to read his books but couldnt,ask Simon.

inn

28-11-2005, 03:58 PM

Well, I'd still pick that one, but choosing things for other people is a bitch :/ How big do they come? They both look a little small.:$

Oh they're just preview images off thw website, they give dimensions I guess about small/medium poster size. They're just prints of the artwork from the books, but I think it'll be nice esp if they're signed and limited edition. Hmm I know the person I'm buying for will like the style of the pencil drawing but the soul music one is tres cool argh...decisions

Mort

28-11-2005, 10:11 PM

Do I get:

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/colourprints/palerider.jpg

orrrr...

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/pencilprints/reaperman.jpg

:unsure:
They're both fecking awsome *remembers back in the day when he used to have 'em in his sig*
awwww yeah. Hmmm, Soul music ones ace cause it has the bike. But the pencil ones ace cause it has Death of Rats in it!

And what about this one?
http://www.paulkidby.com/images/colourprints/eldritchsky1.jpg

inn

28-11-2005, 11:10 PM

They're both fecking awsome *remembers back in the day when he used to have 'em in his sig*
awwww yeah. Hmmm, Soul music ones ace cause it has the bike. But the pencil ones ace cause it has Death of Rats in it!

And what about this one?
http://www.paulkidby.com/images/colourprints/eldritchsky1.jpg

Ahhh I love that one too :happy: I was almost convinced for the colour one but something in the back of my mind keeps nudging me towards the pencil one :indiff:

Soul music was my first discworld read :) death of rats rules my world :D :LOL:

Thing is who I'm buying for has art of discworld book so alot of these imgs are featured in it. Poo I'll make a decision and order it tonight, maybe I should flip a coin...hmmm

Mort

29-11-2005, 07:52 AM

Thing is who I'm buying for has art of discworld book so alot of these imgs are featured in it. Poo I'll make a decision and order it tonight, maybe I should flip a coin...hmmm
Yup. All three of those Death ones are. heh. But thats not the point. Get him one of the prints and frame it. Makes a picture look so much cooler.

inn

29-11-2005, 12:22 PM

Yup. All three of those Death ones are. heh. But thats not the point. Get him one of the prints and frame it. Makes a picture look so much cooler.

Well I finally made up my mind (I hate being indecisive :indiff: ) and went for the pencil print.

I did think of getting a frame too, but it would have to be a reallly nice frame for it. I think it'll be nice with it being limited edition and signed etc. Oh I hope he bloody likes it :unsure:

Mort

29-11-2005, 12:24 PM

Well I finally made up my mind (I hate being indecisive :indiff: ) and went for the pencil print.

I did think of getting a frame too, but it would have to be a reallly nice frame for it. I think it'll be nice with it being limited edition and signed etc. Oh I hope he bloody likes it :unsure:
I am sure he will. Tis a fecking awsome gift. And if he;s anyhting like me about Pratchett, he'll buy his own frame.

inn

29-11-2005, 12:28 PM

I am sure he will. Tis a fecking awsome gift. And if he;s anyhting like me about Pratchett, he'll buy his own frame.

Well he really likes Paul Kidby's artwork for discworld, he's got the last hero and the artwork of discworld sooooo he will like it. And I hope he bloody well appriciates the thought gone into it :LOL:

Hebetude

30-11-2005, 07:20 AM

And what about this one?
http://www.paulkidby.com/images/colourprints/eldritchsky1.jpg

First one I've read. My American friend threw it at me. 'here, read this. It's good.' She was right :happy: I'm gonna read more when I'm back in Holland.

Mort

30-11-2005, 07:30 AM

First one I've read. My American friend threw it at me. 'here, read this. It's good.' She was right :happy: I'm gonna read more when I'm back in Holland.
Heh, i like you even more now.

Hebetude

30-11-2005, 07:31 AM

Heh, i like you even more now.

:LOL:

Mort

30-11-2005, 07:35 AM

:LOL:
:D ;) :happy:

inn

03-12-2005, 12:04 AM

<3

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/mousemats/mm-dor1.jpg

:happy:

Mort

03-12-2005, 07:58 AM

<3

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/mousemats/mm-dor1.jpg

:happy:
Is it sad that I laughed my arse off the first time i saw that on the site? God I love the Deat of Rats.

Hebetude

03-12-2005, 08:03 AM

<3

http://www.paulkidby.com/images/mousemats/mm-dor1.jpg

:happy:
:LOL:

me wants

Festie

03-12-2005, 10:19 PM

I've never read a single Terry Pratchett book. I flicked through one in Ottakers. Something about a cow.

inn

04-12-2005, 12:08 AM

Is it sad that I laughed my arse off the first time i saw that on the site? God I love the Deat of Rats.

I love it, I want a print of that :D

Mort

04-12-2005, 02:48 AM

I've never read a single Terry Pratchett book. I flicked through one in Ottakers. Something about a cow.
Where's my Cow? Thats a pisstake one to coincide with Thud! as Vimes reads it to Young Sam every 6 o'clock.

Mort

04-12-2005, 02:48 AM

I love it, I want a print of that :D
YOu can't have a print of it, its a mouse mat :p

inn

04-12-2005, 03:04 AM

YOu can't have a print of it, its a mouse mat :p

:p I know I can only have it as a mousemat, but I wiykd feel silly sticking a mousemat on my wall :(

Mort

04-12-2005, 04:05 AM

:p I know I can only have it as a mousemat, but I wiykd feel silly sticking a mousemat on my wall :(
Hmmm, well you could get the mouse mat, then scan the photo and print that off and stick it on the wall?

inn

04-12-2005, 04:14 AM

Hmmm, well you could get the mouse mat, then scan the photo and print that off and stick it on the wall?

Ahh but tis not the same....will lose quality and all that.

Teehee I should just email and ask if they would do a print for me.Tho saying that I'm still seeing if my bloke will draw me a version of death of rats first :LOL:

What are you doin up at 5am?

No wait...what am I doing up at 5am :stunned:

Mort

04-12-2005, 04:43 AM

Ahh but tis not the same....will lose quality and all that.

Teehee I should just email and ask if they would do a print for me.Tho saying that I'm still seeing if my bloke will draw me a version of death of rats first :LOL:

What are you doin up at 5am?

No wait...what am I doing up at 5am :stunned:
Yus, what are you doing up at 5am when its nearly 4pm for me? :p

egomaniac

04-12-2005, 05:18 AM

the fifth elephant is the best book EVER!!!!!!!

Festie

04-12-2005, 12:14 PM

Where's my Cow? Thats a pisstake one to coincide with Thud! as Vimes reads it to Young Sam every 6 o'clock.

Yeh...Um. All I know it had somethin to do with a cow.

inn

04-12-2005, 03:06 PM

Yus, what are you doing up at 5am when its nearly 4pm for me? :p

Hehe ohh time differences duh....

inn

09-12-2005, 12:28 AM

Still no sign of my print yet :mad: they're probably busy cause of xmas but it's been week over 7 days since I ordered. They've taken the cash but no sign of dispatch email. Pestered them early this week and they said it's in picking and will be dispatched by the end of the week, if no sign of dispatch email tomorrow night I will be bugging them again :indiff:

inn

15-12-2005, 12:33 AM

Just to report the print arrived today :D and my guy likes it :happy: . I would get a picture of it but it's all neatly rolled back up untill he gets a frame for it. He say's if he can't find one the right size he'll prob even get a frame specially made for it. I feel so proud of meself :D

The print looks dead cool despite only seeing it for a mo will take a pic of it framed when it gets done.

Mort

12-01-2006, 10:36 AM

I bought The Last Hero today. The drawings make it hard to concentrait and read... but Paul Kidby is fucking talented.

Mort

28-01-2006, 10:04 AM

Got Where's My Cow? the other day. :happy:

inn

28-01-2006, 12:43 PM

Got Where's My Cow? the other day. :happy:

:LOL: I flicked through that in the book shop, there's tis amusing quote on the back of my guys copy of thud advertising that book saying 'Aren't we all in some way looking for our cow' :LOL:

kuz

28-01-2006, 12:47 PM

:LOL: I flicked through that in the book shop, there's tis amusing quote on the back of my guys copy of thud advertising that book saying 'Aren't we all in some way looking for our cow' :LOL:
it's on the back of Thud!

"...wonderfully instructive"
Tuppence Swivel, The Times of Ankh Morpork

"...Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?"
Brian Yeast, Ankh-Morpork Literary Gazette and Paradigm Shifters' Monthly

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Beast Love

28-01-2006, 12:47 PM

I've had about 7 discworld books for about 6 years, and When I started reading them, I was just so bored by them. Well, not bored. I just lost interest.

I did take my copy of the first discworld book...the colour of magic?...to work and have read 3/4's of it, and it's most enjoyable.

inn

30-01-2006, 03:47 AM

it's on the back of Thud!

"...Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?"
Brian Yeast, Ankh-Morpork Literary Gazette and Paradigm Shifters' Monthly

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

I want to use that quote in an applicable sentence sometime :LOL:

kuz

30-01-2006, 04:30 AM

I want to use that quote in an applicable sentence sometime :LOL:
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

i would do that, but none of my friends would get the allusion :( the poor unenlightened crétins, eh.

inn

30-01-2006, 04:31 AM

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

i would do that, but none of my friends would get the allusion :( the poor unenlightened crétins, eh.

I've already said it randomly around someone who already knew the reference but one day when there's a deep in depth discussion I've gotta say it :D :LOL:

Hebetude

15-02-2006, 06:00 PM

Time to dig this up again.

I'm reading Thief of Time right now and I find it rather fascinating. It also gives me a perfect excuse not to pay attention during English class. 'But miss, I'm reading a book!'

Mort

24-02-2006, 10:57 AM

Got Jingo the otehr day. My main discworld novel collection is complete. All 30 of them. I also only have to get The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents and The Science of Discworld 3 to complete the lot, bar all the companion books which are impossoble to get over here.

Nikora

25-02-2006, 04:33 PM

Wow :stunned:
I think I own about....4, I borrowed other peoples and read them.

*adds more books to list*

Mort

25-02-2006, 08:23 PM

Wow :stunned:
I think I own about....4, I borrowed other peoples and read them.

*adds more books to list*
I read the majority of them beore I bought 'em cause I took them out of my old schools library all the time. But,yeah... all in all i believe i own 35 Pratchett books, including Good Omens.

Hebetude

26-02-2006, 08:57 AM

I read the majority of them beore I bought 'em cause I took them out of my old schools library all the time. But,yeah... all in all i believe i own 35 Pratchett books, including Good Omens.
I envy you... My library only has about 20 of them and most are translated versions that I refuse to even come close to. I'm reading the colour of magic now, but they don't have the light fantastic. Not even translated. :(

inn

26-02-2006, 04:15 PM

My guy's paul kidby print I brought him is getting framed and should be ready by tuesday, I'd get pics of it :happy:

Beast Love

26-02-2006, 04:37 PM

I'm about half way through Sourcery. It seems that i've had the first few books in the series up to sourcery for ages. I read a few when i was younger but just didn't get them. I think they're pretty good now though.

Mort = a very funny book

Mort

26-02-2006, 09:15 PM

Mort = a very funny book
:D :happy:
*nods*

Mort

26-02-2006, 09:17 PM

I envy you... My library only has about 20 of them and most are translated versions that I refuse to even come close to. I'm reading the colour of magic now, but they don't have the light fantastic. Not even translated. :(
Well, when I said most i actually meant about 10. The rest i've bought and read.
Blergh for translated versions. Most of the jokes wouldn't work if they're translated, i'd think.

Hebetude

27-02-2006, 05:34 PM

Well, when I said most i actually meant about 10. The rest i've bought and read.
Blergh for translated versions. Most of the jokes wouldn't work if they're translated, i'd think.
They're horrible. The translated ones aren't funny at all. They're deadly boring even. Whoever translated that should be slapped in the face.

inn

01-03-2006, 02:47 AM

The paul kidby print that was being framed has come back amazing :happy: it looks a real piece now :D Pictures to come.

Mort

28-05-2006, 03:41 AM

Squeee! They're makeing a Wee Free Men movie. Ok, not the book I'd hope would make the first movie, but good enough! And hopefully this'll be the start for even more of the books to get made. Soul Mussssiiiiiic!

inn

28-05-2006, 05:35 AM

Ooo soul music would be good. However you just knoww they could ending up making a hash job of it.

Mort

28-05-2006, 10:54 AM

Ooo soul music would be good. However you just knoww they could ending up making a hash job of it.
Not if I wrote the script!

~screenager~

28-05-2006, 12:08 PM

Apparently they're adapting Hogfather for TV, I'm not sure whether that means serialised or as a TV movie. Either way: :eek: Would they not need to do some sort of introduction to Death, Susan, Assassins Guild etc? Meh.

I'd love to see Guards! Guards! serialised. Or Night Watch.

Mort

28-05-2006, 12:13 PM

~screenager~

28-05-2006, 02:24 PM

Didn't doesn't mean "shouldn't have". *le sigh* I hate seeing my nerdy books adapted half-assedly. I was pretty pissed off with RotK but that's a whole other story.

jwozencroft87

09-07-2006, 10:18 AM

:LOL: ahhh Terry Pratchett thread i am impressed!

I'm so addicted to all his books, i've (sadly) bought and read everyone now lol :$ I have a life honest i do....

Mort

09-07-2006, 10:39 PM

:LOL: ahhh Terry Pratchett thread i am impressed!

I'm so addicted to all his books, i've (sadly) bought and read everyone now lol :$ I have a life honest i do....
Whats sad about it? I, too, have all the DiscWorld books, including a few of fan stuff like Deaths Domain and the science books. Haven't bnouth the Johnny of little people books yet, though.

glasskite

10-07-2006, 03:41 AM

Hmm. Why have I never posted in this thread before? I must have had a Pratchett related discussion in the past couple of yrs on here... anyway.

I only really like the main Discworld novels. And even then I've only recently warmed to Rincewind, and after Equal Rites (loathed it), I couldn't bear to touch the Witches/Elves series until Wyrd Sisters the other week. It wasn't as bad as I thought.

Death/Susan books are the ones I enjoy the most, my copy of Soul Music will probs fall apart soon, and its a good thing I've got the hardback copy of Hogfather. The Watch ones follow closely behind. Really like The Truth and Going Postal too. I reckon the man is right when he says he's become a better writer, they later ones capture me more.

According to Wikipedia, the one after Wintersmith is gonna be Making Money feat. Moist Von Lipwig again. Looking forward to that one.

By far my fave Pratchett book though is Good Omens. Two of my fave authors colaborating? Awesome. I only own 21 Pratchett books inc that one though. Shocking really.

Mort

10-07-2006, 06:51 AM

jwozencroft87

10-07-2006, 06:53 PM

Whats sad about it? I, too, have all the DiscWorld books, including a few of fan stuff like Deaths Domain and the science books. Haven't bnouth the Johnny of little people books yet, though.

apparently reading for pleasure just isn't normal :LOL: this is what worryingly my friends from university tell me :eek: shock...they are just oh so wrong

G.M.K

17-07-2006, 01:02 AM

hmmmm never saw this before.and i love discworld and pratcett as much i love muse pink floyd or placebo.rincewind kicks ass.as do all the wizards the watch and death series all kick as but i prefer rating them as individual books.
what did everyone think of thud?

~screenager~

17-07-2006, 01:24 AM

I wasn't fussed actually. Vimes is probably my favourite character in the series and I love the Watch books, and whatever followed Night Watch was always going to have to be a cracker, but I thought it meandered a bit and the twist was a bit ridiculous.

Wintersmith's out at the end of September, isn't it? What are your thoughts on Tiffany Aching?

inn

27-07-2006, 02:13 PM

The long overdue picture of the Paul Kidby print I brought for someone at xmas. All nicely framed up <3

http://static.flickr.com/69/199544528_4bd855f7e0_o.jpg

~screenager~

27-07-2006, 02:31 PM

Do you have The Art Of Discworld? It's amazing.

inn

27-07-2006, 02:35 PM

Do you have The Art Of Discworld? It's amazing.

Yep my mate has the last hero and art of discworld :D It's one of his fav illustrators so I got him a signed print :happy:

~screenager~

27-07-2006, 02:44 PM

My friend's aunt has a Clarecraft Rincewind tucked away in her good room, despite not having a single fantasy book in the house.

Do you prefer the new covers or the old Josh Kirby ones?

butterflies.hurricanes

27-07-2006, 02:45 PM

My friend's aunt has a Clarecraft Rincewind tucked away in her good room, despite not having a single fantasy book in the house.

Do you prefer the new covers or the old Josh Kirby ones?
Old ones

Mort

31-07-2006, 11:20 PM

My friend's aunt has a Clarecraft Rincewind tucked away in her good room, despite not having a single fantasy book in the house.

Do you prefer the new covers or the old Josh Kirby ones?
Oooo... i dunno.
The Josh Kirby ones were sut so packed full of things. He got some things wrong, like half the time Dwarfs don't have beards, but they worked well. So colourful and vibrant.
Paul Kidby is very minimalistic, over all. The exception being Night Watch. Which i think is the best cover yet. But Paul makes them more of a standard piece of art, rather than a cartoon.
They're both talented *were*, and i do miss the Josh Kirby covers. But Paul still does an amazing job.

~screenager~

01-08-2006, 12:09 PM

I prefer the new ones. The Kirby ones were a bit too silly, the Paul Kidby covers are much more representative or something.

Working out who's who in the Night Watch cover is an entertainment in itself, if you're bored.

Mort

01-08-2006, 09:38 PM

Working out who's who in the Night Watch cover is an entertainment in itself, if you're bored.
Hah, yeah, i've done that.

~screenager~

04-08-2006, 12:12 AM

Hah, yeah, i've done that. Kidby's Vimes is perfect.

glasskite

04-08-2006, 03:12 AM

Mort

04-08-2006, 08:02 AM

Has anyone else ever sat down and tried to work out around how old each of the characters actually are? And just how all over the place the time lines are?

Cos a friend of mine brought up in convo the other day about how the main characters like Vimes, The Patrician, Wizards etc are all getting on a bit, and will probs die in upcoming books unless Pratchett just stops focusing on them so much like he has in recent books. However this still means he'll have to end up not writing about some of the reader's favourite series and characters sooner or later right?
Pretty much.
Although Pratchett has never made any effort to creat a real timeline. It's more flexible and he bends it to help him whenever he feels like it. mainly, i believe, cause he never bothers to remember exactly what's gone on.
He's also never really told anyone the ages of any of the characters. You get a feeling like Fred Colon is, during Thud!, around 70 and Vimes is in his 50's. Carrot was 16 when we first met him and is now mid 20's.
Rincewind... absoloutly no idea. Sometimes he seems young. Othertimes fairly old. It's very hard to pin-point them.
But I do think that Pratchett will let some of his main characters reach a natural death, some will be killed and others moved further into the background.

Georgy Drachenkoeter

04-08-2006, 08:12 AM

But I do think that Pratchett will let some of his main characters reach a natural death, some will be killed and others moved further into the background.

That's what I'm afraid of. I fear it could happen to Vimes soon.:'(
Thud! made me feel like that. Because of all the flashbacks and Vimes himself thinks he had too much luck in the recent past.

Mort

04-08-2006, 08:46 AM

That's what I'm afraid of. I fear it could happen to Vimes soon.:'(
Thud! made me feel like that. Because of all the flashbacks and Vimes himself thinks he had too much luck in the recent past.
As soon as he focuses a lot more on Carrot, you'll know he's gonna bump Vimes Although i have a feeling he may let Colon go first. It would make for a really emotional story.

Georgy Drachenkoeter

04-08-2006, 09:15 AM

Vimes is gonna live forever! He is immortal.:yesey: At least in my heart :)

Mort

04-08-2006, 09:20 AM

Vimes is gonna live forever! He is immortal.:yesey: At least in my heart :)
As long as the books are in print he is.

But with every character I guess it all depends on how bored Pratchett gets of them. You can only write a certain amount of things about someone before you run out of ideas.
Look at Death. He's ended up getting drunk in the Drumm twice. Each time was pretty much identical except for the ending.

Georgy Drachenkoeter

04-08-2006, 09:31 AM

As long as the books are in print he is.

But with every character I guess it all depends on how bored Pratchett gets of them. You can only write a certain amount of things about someone before you run out of ideas.
Look at Death. He's ended up getting drunk in the Drumm twice. Each time was pretty much identical except for the ending.

You are right, I'm afraid.

Twice?
I should re-read the Death Novels. Don't know when he got drunk...:$
Soul Music and Mort?

Mort

04-08-2006, 09:43 AM

You are right, I'm afraid.

Twice?
I should re-read the Death Novels. Don't know when he got drunk...:$
Soul Music and Mort?
Aye i believe it is those two. Soul Music deffinetly, cause that's the one where he passes out.

glasskite

04-08-2006, 09:44 AM

When you first meet him you get the impression Vimes is in his late 40s, and I think this was reflected in the first Discworld game where he's an old drunken captain. Most of the events in Nightwatch are set 25 yrs in the past right? Or about 26 where Thud! is concerned cos young Sam is at least a year old. So that really only puts him in his late 30s/early 40s.

I get the feeling Rincewind, if he's still alive in current events is nearing 80. Susan probs about 30 odd. But bah, the Discworld timeline's a right mess. Its kinda more interesting that way if it makes you wonder and try work out rather than have it all spelt out for you.

Mort

04-08-2006, 09:50 AM

When you first meet him you get the impression Vimes is in his late 40s, and I think this was reflected in the first Discworld game where he's an old drunken captain. Most of the events in Nightwatch are set 25 yrs in the past right? Or about 26 where Thud! is concerned cos young Sam is at least a year old.

I get the feeling Rincewind, if he's still alive in current events is nearing 80. Susan probs about 30 odd. But bah, the Discworld timeline's a right mess. Its kinda more interesting that way if it makes you wonder and try work out rather than have it all spelt out for you.
Aye.
Plus it also means Terry can jump back and forth if he wants. He doesn't have to make everything linear. You can read pretty much all of his books in any order. 'cept for Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.

glasskite

04-08-2006, 09:54 AM

Aye.
Plus it also means Terry can jump back and forth if he wants. He doesn't have to make everything linear. You can read pretty much all of his books in any order. 'cept for Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
And if something goes REALLY wrong, he can always blame the History Monks. Cheeky fucker built in all sorts of loopholes into that world. I kinda miss that "1 in a million happens 9 times out of 10" line, he's not used it much recently.

Mort

04-08-2006, 10:50 AM

And if something goes REALLY wrong, he can always blame the History Monks. Cheeky fucker built in all sorts of loopholes into that world. I kinda miss that "1 in a million happens 9 times out of 10" line, he's not used it much recently.
Well, it's only major use was in Gaurds! Guards!
"Its a 1 in a million chance, but it might just work!"
I love that line.

Georgy Drachenkoeter

04-08-2006, 12:18 PM

Well, it's only major use was in Gaurds! Guards!
"Its a 1 in a million chance, but it might just work!"
I love that line.

Yes, I try to use it sometimes smiling broadly while doing that, but no-one understands why I'm glad to use this phrase.:(
Thinks like that happen a lot, everybody around me should internalise Pratchett...

Mort

13-09-2006, 07:46 AM

Ahhhh, ajhhhh, ahhhhhhhh! *screams and jumps about like a gigantic groupie*
Ahhhhh!!!!
They're actually fucking makeing the Hogfather movie!

Edit: It's a TV movie.

Adelie Penguin

13-09-2006, 10:02 AM

Ahhhh, ajhhhh, ahhhhhhhh! *screams and jumps about like a gigantic groupie*
Ahhhhh!!!!
They're actually fucking makeing the Hogfather movie!

Edit: It's a TV movie.
Oh no. :stunned:

It's going to be terrible, I know it.

Georgy Drachenkoeter

13-09-2006, 10:31 AM

I saw him yesterday.:happy:
Let him sign my fanclub membership-card and went to a reading/interview afterwards. Was fun, despite migraine...

Mort

13-09-2006, 11:41 AM

Oh no. :stunned:

It's going to be terrible, I know it.
It's a possibility. The only person I've heard of in it is David Jason and he's going to be playing Albert. I really can't see him as an Albert.

Celtic Rose

13-09-2006, 12:14 PM

Uncle Albert should have been Albert. I'm not saying that to sound idiotic, but they needed a grumpier, older guy. Like Steptoe, a really gristled old dude.

Theres loads of links on the Discworld Stamps forum to different interviews with the cast etc.

At one point there were auditions being held for extras as wizards and maids, but "fans" from a certain board (I'm not disclosing which) started demanding money, and so they producers chose to use professional extras instead. In actual fact we would have got paid, and got a free hotel for the night and loads of merch, but they wanted true fans to go out of dedication, not just randoms who are doing it for stuff to flog on Ebay.

Wankers....:indiff:

glasskite

13-09-2006, 12:15 PM

It's a possibility. The only person I've heard of in it is David Jason and he's going to be playing Albert. I really can't see him as an Albert.
He doesn't sound quite skinny or grumpy enough to be an Albert.

Mort

13-09-2006, 12:17 PM

Uncle Albert should have been Albert. I'm not saying that to sound idiotic, but they needed a grumpier, older guy. Like Steptoe, a really gristled old dude.

Exactly. Cause, well, Albert is a gristled old grumpy git. David Jasons got too much meat on him.

Celtic Rose

13-09-2006, 12:20 PM

Still too young as well, regardless of the fact time doesn't pass in Death's Domain, the guy is still over 2000 years old!:LOL:

inn

13-09-2006, 03:58 PM

Ahhhh, ajhhhh, ahhhhhhhh! *screams and jumps about like a gigantic groupie*
Ahhhhh!!!!
They're actually fucking makeing the Hogfather movie!

Edit: It's a TV movie.

:eek:

Georgy Drachenkoeter

27-09-2006, 09:26 AM

Website for Hogfather movie (http://www.rhifilms.com/property.php?propertyId=Hogfather)

Celtic Rose

27-09-2006, 09:37 AM

Thanks for that link :happy:

Ooooh contraversial slightly Harry Potter esque text.....

Celtic Rose

27-09-2006, 09:39 AM

Meanwhile, the Auditors have enlisted help as well—from professional assassin Lord Downey (David Warner, The Omen) and the Bad Seed, a master of destruction working closely with a band of lowlifes who’ve already put a spell on children’s teeth in order to rot their faith in the Tooth Fairy (Sinead Matthews, Pride & Prejudice).

What the fuck is this?! Thats not in the book!:mad:

Georgy Drachenkoeter

27-09-2006, 09:46 AM

I was wondering about that part, too.

Adelie Penguin

27-09-2006, 09:46 AM

Website for Hogfather movie (http://www.rhifilms.com/property.php?propertyId=Hogfather)

It looks so cutesy Disney Grinch-esque :stunned:

:'(

Celtic Rose

27-09-2006, 12:15 PM

As far as I recall, the auditors want to get rid of the hogfather, so they hire Teatime. He gets together with Banjo, Chickenwire, Medium Dave et al and they go to the tooth fairy land. The idea is to steal the teeth of children, and make them believe in something other than the Hogfather, and if people don't believe in him, he will die. Death steps in as the hogfathers replacement, and this is how Susan finds out, and she tries to save the day. It turns out the hogfather is much more than just a fat man who hands out sausages and if he dies, the whole worls will end.

Mort

27-09-2006, 12:52 PM

~screenager~

27-09-2006, 12:58 PM

Meh. They were always going to fuck it up. Hogfather is an utterly useless place to start - too much backstory. They should have done Mort if they wanted to film a Death book.

inn

27-09-2006, 01:58 PM

Dammit I'm gonna need to read the hog father....

Celtic Rose

27-09-2006, 07:11 PM

I agree with the Mort comment, Mort or Reaper Man.

I think they just honed in on a Xmas story, unfortunately.:(

Mort

22-12-2006, 12:18 PM

Fucking score.
Yesterday I purchase the Ankh-Morpok Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007, and the The Unseen University Cut-Out Book.
Weeeeehehehehe!

~SapphireStar~

22-12-2006, 02:21 PM

Fucking score.
Yesterday I purchase the Ankh-Morpok Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007, and the The Unseen University Cut-Out Book.
Weeeeehehehehe!

You evil sod! Where from?!

~screenager~

22-12-2006, 05:45 PM

All the Easons around here have them. Shame I don't use diaries.

Mort

22-12-2006, 09:24 PM

You evil sod! Where from?!
Angus and Robertsons. They were expensive, but so worth it.

All the Easons around here have them. Shame I don't use diaries.
Neither do I, and there is no way i'm letting any cutting impliments close to the UU book either. I just have them because they're fucking cool!

Mons

22-12-2006, 09:35 PM

I had never read any Pratchett before last week. Now I'm half way through The Colour of Magic, and loving it! :D

I'll feel such a sense of accomplishment after reading them all...

~screenager~

23-12-2006, 12:09 AM

I think it's a bit rubbish tbh. The next book, The Light Fantastic, is great though. Then it's Equal Rites which is kinda shit (I'm not a huge fan of the witches). But it's all way uphill from there :D

Hebetude

23-12-2006, 08:25 AM

glasskite

23-12-2006, 09:23 AM

I read Mort first. Hooked ever since.

Although when I went back and read the first 3 I was disappointed.

Oh. I haven't read the Hogfather thread for spoiler fears, but they've bodged it up haven't they?

Mort

23-12-2006, 09:52 AM

~screenager~

23-12-2006, 12:52 PM

Oh. I haven't read the Hogfather thread for spoiler fears, but they've bodged it up haven't they? They didn't pick a good story to adapt, and it didn't translate well anyway.

Mort

24-09-2007, 07:20 AM

I have just returned home clutching, very tightly, my brand new copy of Making Money. SQUEE!!!

El Zilcho

24-09-2007, 07:40 AM

I read the first book. It was so incredibly tedious and unexciting that I haven't got round to starting with the second one.

craigacp

24-09-2007, 08:19 AM

I have just returned home clutching, very tightly, my brand new copy of Making Money. SQUEE!!!

Tis brilliant, but not as good as Going Postal. I read it on Saturday.

Celtic Rose

24-09-2007, 08:47 AM

I don't have high hopes for Making Money, I miss Discworld books that were actually about magic, dragons and warriors and stuff.... :(

~screenager~

24-09-2007, 12:02 PM

I have just returned home clutching, very tightly, my brand new copy of Making Money. SQUEE!!! :eek: It's out?! I thought it wasn't until Friday?

craigacp

24-09-2007, 02:49 PM

:eek: It's out?! I thought it wasn't until Friday?

Last Thursday in the UK. Not sure about other places.

glasskite

24-09-2007, 03:01 PM

Oooh I hadn't realised it was out already! Last thing I heard was about Wintersmith and I wasn't too interested in it, so didn't think the next one would be out for a good while.

Oh christ. Time flies, its been a year since i last checked about the books...

Dramatic Hammer

24-09-2007, 04:07 PM

Was the O God of hangovers welsh in the book? I can't rememeber :rolleyes:... Fitted perfectly though :LOL:

craigacp

25-09-2007, 05:20 PM

~screenager~

25-09-2007, 05:26 PM

Wintersmith was really really good though. It felt like a grown up Discworld novel. I'm not fussed on the Tiffany Aching books, they're at least as dark as the 'adult' books, but without the laughs.

glasskite

25-09-2007, 05:29 PM

I'm not fussed on the Tiffany Aching books, they're at least as dark as the 'adult' books, but without the laughs.
And I read Pratchett for the laughs! :(

Anyone read Amazing Maurice? Whats that one like? Cos I've avoided the discworld ones aimed at kids... And the Last Hero for that matter.

craigacp

25-09-2007, 08:44 PM

And I read Pratchett for the laughs! :(

Anyone read Amazing Maurice? Whats that one like? Cos I've avoided the discworld ones aimed at kids... And the Last Hero for that matter.

The Last Hero isn't so bad, though I think it definitely gains something from being in a huge book, so you can see all the artwork, which is very good.

~screenager~

25-09-2007, 10:45 PM

The Last Hero isn't so bad, though I think it definitely gains something from being in a huge book, so you can see all the artwork, which is very good. Aye, it would have been rubbish without the art. Paul Kidby rocks. Does anyone else have The Art of Discworld?

Celtic Rose

25-09-2007, 11:25 PM

Amazing Maurice is a great book. Not too "I'm trying to compete with Harry Potter" etc. Just a good story.

Art Of Discworld is amazing. I can't remember if mine is signed or not.....:LOL:

Mort

26-09-2007, 01:22 AM

The Art of Discworld is amazing. Paul Kidby is a great artist, and his characterizations are wonderful. He has a good eye.

Making Money seems a bit try hard, to be honest. It's not overly funny, and Pratchett seems to be chucking in swear words just for the sake of it. Nothing major, just a load of bastards.

inn

26-09-2007, 01:46 AM

Paul kidby's work is great. I brought a print off his website as a present and it was ace <3

~screenager~

13-12-2007, 12:24 PM

Pterry has early-onset Alzheimers. :( He made the announcement yesterday.

Marvolo

15-12-2007, 05:38 PM

Pterry has early-onset Alzheimers. :( He made the announcement yesterday.

:(

Henz

16-12-2007, 12:09 PM

It's very sad. My brother loves his work; he was gutted.

glasskite

16-12-2007, 05:02 PM

~screenager~

17-12-2007, 11:27 AM

He's not dead yet! And he's got a few more books left in him. So I don't see why people are all sad. I mean from the announcement, he clearly doesn't want people to be practically mourning his passing already, so no sad face! It's not immediate sad-face, it's acknowledgement of future sad-face.

Well there's my random sentence of the day. The castle is on fire. Are my books burned? The microfilm is under the seat.

Press Gang

07-01-2009, 01:28 PM

Wehey Mr Pratchett is getting some exceptional recogntion. Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you... SIR Terry Pratchett!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7805143.stm

Josh =/

07-01-2009, 01:54 PM

Wehey Mr Pratchett is getting some exceptional recogntion. Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you... SIR Terry Pratchett!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7805143.stm

Bout time.

scifigeekgirl

08-01-2009, 09:35 PM

Just when I was wondering anybody else cared about this - I suddenly find someone does - hurrah! :party:

I totally agree. Pterry so deserves this recognition, and has done for ages. Not that it probably makes any difference to him, but as a scifi/fantasy buff (no surprise I know :rolleyes:), it's a big deal to me. So often genre fiction gets overlooked as not "literature", and scorn poured over it in big buckets. Yes a lot of it is rubbish (I have read so much crap fantasy that I can now literally judge a book by it's cover), but then so is fiction in general. Look under the surface of good sf/f, and you'll find complex themes on relationships, the human condition, where we are, and what we could be capable of.

Back to TP: I have been reading his stuff since the year dot (yes even Dark Side Of The Sun, and Strata, not to mention the kids' books!) and he has always been one of my favourite authors. In the beginning he made giggle uncontrollably; nowadays he is less haha-funny, but still v v witty. And poignant. Great names, great characters.

He made me laugh, he made me cry. And also realise that Death is not necessarily something to be scared of...especially if he's on a horse called Binky.

I will miss him so much :supersad: when he finally stops. But thank the Great A'Tuin that he existed, and was so prolific as well as talented.

Sir Terry, we salute you!!

petraenmylou

21-04-2009, 07:32 PM

hi,

I also love to reed the Discworld books!
I am trying to get all the parts.
my favorites are:

Morts
Wyrd Sisters
Night Watch
And ofcourse the color of magic

I saw the Hogfather movie,
And i loved it,especialy because you hear al the names that you now from the books