Currently reading Going Postal, having read many of Terry Prachett’s discworld novels, mostly ones that included the Watch because i find the hilarious after reading NightWatch.
Anybody a fan, got any favourite quotes?
‘Are you Death?’
IT’S THE SCYTHE, ISN’T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE.
Hi Kesh,
The discworld series are one of my all time favourites, especially the ones with Vimes and the Watch. The recent books have been the best IMO, Pratchett just hones his style more and more with every book. If you haven’t read Monstrous Regiment and Thief of Time then I would highly recommend them even though they are not particularly Watch oriented.
From Men At Arms:
Bjorn: “I believe in reincarnation.”
Death: I KNOW.
Bjorn: “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
Death: THAT IS NOT UP TO ME. OF COURSE … SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION … YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.
Classic
ben,
I’ve read Thief of Time; Lu-Tze ‘never mess with an very old helpless looking guy’; Ronnie the 4th rider of the apocalypse; 
loved it, although it did take sometime to get into at first. I’ve bought Monstrous Regiment & Interesting Times resently to read after Going Postal. Interesting Times because i want to read about this loner wizard who’s always getting into trouble. Its an older one but wrote around the time when the Fifth Elephant was wrote and that was probably my second favourite. Not as funny as some of the later ones but better story telling never the less. His lastest novel is due for release shortly, and apparently theres talk of making a Discworld movie - Hogfather been the most likely to be adapted to film - though i havent got that far back in the series yet. Going Postal is just beginning to pick up: theres a professional thief been given a chance by Vetanari to either be hung (again) or become the new postmaster. In case he runs off his got a huge Golem watching over him and protecting him: the Golem ‘Mr Pump’ has been given the chance to buy his freedom, his old job was in a well one hundred feet deep pumping water to the surface. Which he enjoyed, having do it for two hundred years. Theres a pin fanatic, tons of letters… its looking promising, wont spoil it anymore
Night Watch was the first of Terry Prachetts novels i read and the one i found most enjoyable simply because of Vimes’ character, plus its great one liners. After reading one with him [Vimes] in it i feel alot more confident, the way he just seems to bulldoze his way around, fightin’ Werewolfs fifty times stronger and faster than him attitude, the Vimes Elbow.
From Night Watch:
His [Vimes’] glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectros Synchronized Observation Team.
Absolutely love him, and enjoyed the non discworld stuff he has done too. Thanks for reminding me about Terry, I really need to get back into that world.
Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards’.
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles – kingons, or possibly queons – that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
Its good to read a book of his inbetween something alittle more intense, that way it brake things up. I find dabbling in one thing too long takes the enjoyment out of it. I was gonna by ‘Wheres my Cow?’ to read to my daughter.
I plan to start reading more Pratchett book very soon. I started on Guards! Guards!
gecota
Guards! Guards! One of the first ones with the Watch in. Vimes is an alcoholic captain. Its ok, not my favourite though. Its more along the lines of Jingo.
Yeah, I’ve got lots of stuff to read before I get back to Discworld.
[i]A bit of a fan obviouthly, and like Ben, Vimeth ith my favourite character - quite a philothophical chap on the quiet.
The later bookth are the best - Carpe Jugulum, Nightwatch being my favouriteth tho far.[/i]
Are all your family could Igor too?
granny is the best character of all time, i love her.
“it’s something in her stare”
GliderPendalehaven
Who is Granny (ergh, i just got a flashback–Nikki from big brother there), is she the witch whos good at delivering babys. Well, not good, but the best nanny of all time? Or possibly a character from the Witches? im not familair with the earlier novel Terry wrote. (Terry wrote… i work with a fella called Terry, the type, that if he even heard me say “wrote” he’d take the mickey until something else came along. The bastard man is impossible).
gecota
Still reading Post Office, its… not a classic. Albeit im not even half way through so, it’ll probably have a better ending then Lost. With books im usually half way through reading eight atleast.
out of the three witches she is the oldest, and the most powerful, and she’s great at headology. which is kinda like p-sycology, but different. 
I have been reading Prachett for years. The corner stones of the universe are Vimes, Granny Weatherwax, Susan and Rincewind. There are other important people but they carry the most weight.
I agree that Prachett is a magnificent artist who only getts better and better. I thought he hit an all time peak with Thief of Time, but he has exceeded even that pinnacle.
Prachett inspired this tiny bit of analysis, which I use as a lantern for my artisitic ambitions:
Storytellers have one great story inside of them. The storyteller must make the effort to tell their story many times, in many different ways, to get it right. The story is never told perfectly. The effort to express is the never-ending artistic struggle. Those storytellers who grow the most get closer and closer to fully expressing the story that is inside of them. If they are fortunate then they will have the opportunity to express their story in such a way that moves the world.
[size=75](I am also delighted to have been the one to intoduce Gilder and Gecota to Terry’s work)[/size]
Kesh, seek out Weird Sisters as soon as you can.
While I haven’t delved too deeply into the Discworld mythos I have enjoyed the Slayers novel by Hajime Kanzaka. Its another series of comedic fantasy novels with an intruging narrative voice. Because the novels spawned an anime series of the same name these books are often put smack in the middle of the manga, but they are novels, albeit short ones. Most of you could easily read two in a day if you put your mind to it.
GliderPendalehaven
Im gonna have to find out now. There characters are in Eric (faust) arent they?
xanderman
Vimes is covered, though im gonna read Montrous Regiment next. I usually read Discworld novels at work and other stuff at home. Anything with Vimes in and i tend to take his philosophy and put it to use on the job (…well, not literally but you know. Think Vimes). Granny Weatherwax, im not familiar with. What books is she in? Susan is a great character, always with Death although it would seem the other way round, Death been her add-in char. You get the sense of life as a immortal with her. I’ll read our Rincewind’s Interesting Times eventually, there seems to be some funny themes with his storys.
Postal is beginning to pick up again ive just found out that the guy that used to always build things that worked, but not as they were supposed too, built the post offices’ sorting machine. Its all gone quantuum.
Certainly will. 
Manifested,
Slayers novels… something to go to once ive exhausted the Discworld collection. Are you planning on moving onto the discworld series? I’d start with one of later ones, or the Fifth Elepahnt to get into the history of the place.
Are you a fan of manga? After been overwhelmed by some of the Japanese/Korean films of resent i decided to watch a few manga films, starting with Ghost in a Shell.
Desperately striving for one sentence of on topic there, were you?
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Discworld is easily one of the best worlds I’ve read in. I enjoy all the series (of what i’ve read). The Cop series is still my favorite so far, Vimes and the Patrician are very exquisitely written characters. Although Granny Weatherwax is quite amazing as well.
However, I would have to agree that Thief of Time was a very powerful book on its own. The others kind of build around that storyline, but this one can stand all by itself. Not my favorite but definitely a powerhouse.
And I would also have to thank Xanderman for introducing me to these novels. Very excellent.
BS (Bergholt Stuttley) Johnson aka Bloody Stupid Johnson is the genius for getting the construction of anything not just wrong but disastrously wrong.
Correct.