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04-13-2010, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill  +1. Pyramids is probably my favourite. Very funny stuff.
Let's not derail Phalex's thread any further - what say you guys to Pratchett having his own thread? He gets some love on here in other book threads, but I think he's worth one all to himself. | ... so here we are. 
What are your favourite books / characters/ places / scenes / quotes et cetera?
Off we go...
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04-13-2010, 01:50 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | Terry Pratchett's Discworld is certainly one of my favourite series of all time. I'm even planning on getting some discworld themed tattoos in the near future.
I would have to say my favourite books are those that feature Death and/or Susan and the ones about the Watch. I don't really have one out right favourite, Soul Music is one of the books that stand out though.
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04-13-2010, 01:57 PM
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Soul Music - killed me. The whole "Buddy Holly" take-off totally hooked me.
I'm reading "Good Omens" right now. Spending a lot of time LOL'ing. "It's time for Armageddon but someone's misplaced the Anti-Christ"...
Not to derail, but if you like Terry, you might also like Spider Robinson. Start with "Callahan's Cross-time Saloon".
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04-13-2010, 01:58 PM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | I heart Good Omens. So very, very much.
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04-13-2010, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Manchester, UK | | | I'm well having a Pratchett revival now. Looking forward to getting back ino it. Sam Vimes and the Watch, plus anything involving Death were always my favourites.
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04-13-2010, 02:01 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | I haven't actually read Good Omens yet, that's his collaboration with Neil Gaiman right? |
04-13-2010, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver I haven't actually read Good Omens yet, that's his collaboration with Neil Gaiman right? | Brilliant book, Gaiman adds just the right amount of dark to Pratchett's humor (wait...humour, correct?  )....
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04-13-2010, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard (wait...humour, correct? ).... | *Gives Gard a chocolate* Good Boy. |
04-13-2010, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Manchester, UK | | | Good Omens is great. It's just the right mix of both authors. Get it read!
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04-13-2010, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver *Gives Gard a chocolate* Good Boy. | Well, I DID live in Ayr-By-The Sea, just west of Glasgow, for a time as a wee laddie...
...and I'll be back for a visit - to Scotland AND England (with a short stop in Ireland) this summer...I'm a bit of an anglophile...
...and I definitely prefer British humour most of the time... 
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04-13-2010, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by chrisisnotevil Good Omens is great. It's just the right mix of both authors. Get it read! | I'll put it on my must read list, I'm not really sure why I've overlooked it so far. |
04-13-2010, 02:21 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Good Omens is excellent. Laugh out loud funny in some parts.
My favourite Discworld books:
Colour of Magic (in fact, most of the Rincewind and Wizards books)
Light Fantastic (Cohen the Barbarian, rofl)
Wyrd Sisters (Nanny Ogg just kills me every time she appears), and any of the other witches books
Pyramids - probably the best written of the lot, and one of the funniest
Guards, Guards and all the City Watch books
Moving Pictures - Gaspode!
Soul Music
But I have to confess I gave up at about book 25 or 26. I just got a bit "over-exposed" to Discworld, I suppose. I might try some of the later ones soon.
Anybody here read the Bromeliad trilogy? Truckers, Diggers, Wings. Kids' books, but funny for adults, too. Well, this particular adult, anyway.
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04-13-2010, 02:27 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | lspace.org is a great Pratchett site for fans, especially the Pratchett files section. A lot of his best one-liners are listed there, just comedy genius. How'd he come up with so many funny ideas? The only other people for me who've come close to this level of humour through gentle (or not so gentle) parody are the Pythons and Douglas Adams. http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/the-...-of-magic.html
Use the arrows to navigate through the DW series in order. If I ever need a laugh, two minutes there always does the trick.
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04-13-2010, 03:25 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Oh man, I loooooove Prachett, I've not read a pile of his books, but every single one I did was a masterpiece.
Was it Moving Pictures, that the main charachter was in great shape because he was so lazy, and things were easier to do with some muscle?
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04-13-2010, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | I loved Pyramids the most, I think.
Having said that I loved Pyramids the most, on the whole I enjoy any of the novels with Rincewind or The Watch most. Or that have Granny Weatherwax.
Dangit, I can't pick a favo(u)rite right now!
I loved one scene that had The Patrician reading music rather than listening to it, because it was so much easier to enjoy when it stayed still on the page, rather than with musicians mucking it up. Don't remember which book it was in, might have been Soul Music.
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04-13-2010, 03:32 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Heh, now I'm gonna have to dig all my books out and read 'em again, I think I have Thud! near to hand...
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04-13-2010, 03:34 PM
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04-13-2010, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Heh, now I'm gonna have to dig all my books out and read 'em again, I think I have Thud! near to hand... | That book was epic. Truly great. I caught up with that and a couple of Moist Von Lipwig books last summer, and I can only say they seem to have got better since I stopped reading them ten years ago and started on Robert Rankin...
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04-13-2010, 03:46 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | Moist is a great character of recent times, I'd love to see what Pratchett does with him next. Spike and him make a great pairing as well, unusual, but it works. |
04-13-2010, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Manchester, UK | | | Obviously there won't be many more books and the Vetinari/Ankh Morpork/probably Carrot realising his birthright story arc really seems to be heading to a massive climax in three or four books time. I'm excited but saddened.
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