Discworld Series

[Pumpkin]

Who else loves this series :flirt:

My favourites are the ones with Vimes, because he is my book crush

I just got Mort yesterday and I'm super excited. I've only read about 40 pages and it's already made me laugh out loud a few times

Discuss the Discworld series :monster:

[Jess]

I haven't read any, but they're next on my list. I played the adventure games though. :jess:

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I started the series with Going Postal, but I've also read several others.

I really like this kind of humor, and find the books a good way to forget about things and have a chuckle.

[chionos]

I have:
(in book form)
Night Watch
Thud!
Making Money
Unseen Academicals
Small Gods
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Masquerade
Pyramids
Equal Rites
Lords and Ladies
Interesting Times
Jingo
The Light Fantastic
The Truth
The Fifth Elephant
Carpe Jugulum
The Last Continent
Soul Music
Reaper Man
Moving Pictures

Several more on muh Kindle. My favorites are...well all of them, but I especially like the Mort books, and Death is a great character. Small Gods was the first Discworld book I read, and I'll soon have all the books in the series collected and read. Hmm. Might change my eoff set to Discworld.

Great thread! Discworld rocks!

[The Man]

I have well over half the books and have read most of them. My favourites are Guards! Guards!, Small Gods, Night Watch, and Going Postal.

[Araciel]

Rincewind fo lief!

..Also Cohen.

[Big D]

I've listened to a ton of them as audiobooks - there are some fantastic performances out there.

Thud was my first, and remains my favourite.

I'm a big fan of stories involving Ankh-Morpork, especially the City Watch. Sam Vimes is my homeboy. Sergeant Angua is adorable. Moist von Lipwig is endlessly enteraining.

I've enjoyed all the novels I've experienced to date, though I found the witches increasingly repetitive and tedious. Furthermore, Rincewind can suck it.

[chionos]

Furthermore, Rincewind can suck it.

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"Okay..." said Rincewind, dejectedly. "I know when I'm not wanted. No, really, all the time is easy to figure out. It's when some people like you and some people don't that life gets confusing. And it's a lot easier to get everyone to hate you than it is to get everyone to love you."

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Let's talk about some of our favorite scenes!

I rather enjoyed Moist Von Lipwig trying to tunnel out of jail in the beginning of Going Postal.

Pretty much any scene with Vimes dealing with his wife.

[Pumpkin]

Pretty much any scene with Vimes

I also really enjoy scenes with Twoflower. He is such a contrast to Rincewind and their dynamic is excellent

I enjoy the urinating dog (not actually a urinating dog) from Interesting Times. Rincewind frustrating Death is always a good one

[Araciel]

Did you guys see the Going Postal movies?

[The Man]

The final scene of Small Gods may be my all-time favourite scene from the series.

[chionos]

The final scene of Small Gods may be my all-time favourite scene from the series.

Yes. That book culminates so perfectly. I love any and all scenes in the series that involve Death.

The light was brilliant, crystalline, in a black sky filled with stars.

"Ah. There really is a desert. Does everyone get this?" said Brutha.

WHO KNOWS?

"And what is at the end of the desert?"

JUDGMENT.

Brutha considered this.

"Which end?"

Death grinned and stepped aside.

I also love the scene in Mort as Mort and Ysabell, astride Binky, are racing against the night. The descriptions of light and darkness are exquisite, imaginative, and incredibly witty.

[Jess]

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This Rincewind is better. :colbert:

[Skyblade]

Vimes and those books following him and Sybil are the best.
Anything with Vetinari is next.
Susan Sto Helit takes a spot here.
Moist von Lipwig follows in after that.
Then Granny Weatherwax and her coven.


I actually couldn't read the book which introduced Mort, though. I read about the first chapter, and promptly closed it and put it away. I can't stand when authors create characters just to kill to prove a point.

[chionos]

Vimes and those books following him and Sybil are the best.
Anything with Vetinari is next.
Susan Sto Helit takes a spot here.
Moist von Lipwig follows in after that.
Then Granny Weatherwax and her coven.


I actually couldn't read the book which introduced Mort, though. I read about the first chapter, and promptly closed it and put it away. I can't stand when authors create characters just to kill to prove a point.

You're missing out. :)

[Pumpkin]

I'm loving Mort so far!

[Rez09]

It's a bit of a necro, but I was thinking about getting into this series and found this thread, so I figured I'd revive it instead of making a new one.

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I brought up the two point and clicks briefly in another thread and it reminded me that, although I've been aware of the series, I haven't ever gotten around to reading any of the books. I did have a copy of The Light Fantastic, I believe it was called, but it has since disappeared, so I am looking for a suggestion on what to pick up instead.

In particular, and though a lot of people have mentioned their favorites in the series already (which I've taken note of and will pick up later), I greatly enjoyed the animated adaptation of the Wyrd Sisters I saw a while back and would really like to start with a book following those characters. I could, of course, just read the Wyrd Sisters, which would be the logical step, but I'd like a new story to experience with them instead of retreading (presumably superior) familiar ground. Does anyone have a recommendation for me? I'd greatly appreciate it. :)

[sharkythesharkdogg]

It's hard to go wrong with any of the books mentioned in the thread so far.

[Rez09]

Are any of the ones mentioned about the witches? I really have no idea what any of the books are about or who they follow.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

If you want the witches, this seems like a good start (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61657.The_Witches_Trilogy).

Shion has the Rincewind trilogy, and I'm assuming this is something similar for the witches.

[Rez09]

Heeeyyy, that's just what I was looking for. Thank you very much, sir. :D

[chionos]

There's also the series "for kids" that involves the witches and funny little elven dudes called the Nac Mac Feegle. Series starts with The Wee Free Men, then A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, & I Shall Wear Midnight. They're marketed "for kids," but some of the most wonderful profound writing happens in them, and they didn't read altogether much differently than the "for adults" Discworld books.