Terry Pratchett fans..?

urbanhippie
urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
edited December 2007 in All Encompassing Trip
Are there any out there?
The Discworld series of books has to be my favourite....
And I love Neil Gaiman too, especially American Gods.
Maybe it's my twisted sense of humour?
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Although it's not as good or funny is it used to be, I'm still addicted to Pratchett's books.

    I haven't read any Neil Gaiman books behind Good Omens, which is bloody hilarous!

    Death, Vimes and Nanny Ogg being my favs characters.
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Yay! Now I don't feel so lonely....:)
    You should try Gaiman's books... Darker than PTerry but just as good.
    Sort of a skewed way of looking at life...American Gods is a fave and so is Anansi Boys....
    Death is my favourite character, The Hogfather my favourite book.
    Vimes is next and Night Watch is brilliantly convoluted and I love all the books about the Wyrd Sisters....
    I could go on.....but I won't :)
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  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Discworld rocks! Anyone reading Making Money at the mo? I'm starting it tonight...
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Bangers'n'mash wrote:
    Discworld rocks! Anyone reading Making Money at the mo? I'm starting it tonight...
    Oh Yes!
    Very like the last one...but still good!
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  • glasshouse
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    Mort is as funny as anything I've read and a great story to boost
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    glasshouse wrote:
    Mort is as funny as anything I've read and a great story to boost
    That's available as a graphic novel over here too.
    Don't ask me the artist...I'm so crap at stuff like that...
    It's good though :)
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    urbanhippie wrote:
    Yay! Now I don't feel so lonely....:)
    You should try Gaiman's books... Darker than PTerry but just as good.
    Sort of a skewed way of looking at life...American Gods is a fave and so is Anansi Boys....
    Death is my favourite character, The Hogfather my favourite book.
    Vimes is next and Night Watch is brilliantly convoluted and I love all the books about the Wyrd Sisters....
    I could go on.....but I won't :)
    I like Dark :p

    and Small Gods and Moving Pictures are my favourite ones...despite the fact they have none of the recurring characters (well, Death obviously, but you know what I mean).
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Pegasus wrote:
    I like Dark :p
    Give 'em a try, you won't be disappointed....:)
    And, if you are, you can blame me :)
    If you like really dark try his collections of short stories...
    Smoke and Mirrors & Fragile Things...
    Read with a open mind though :)
    Babycakes is brilliant...scares the hell out of me....
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  • urbanhippie
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    Looks like we are still a rare breed though...
    Any more....
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  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    I LOVE TERRY PRATCHETT! He is my favourite author by far.

    :D:D:D

    Discworld books are just so fun and easy to read, and so many references to other things. He's a very smart man.

    I love so many of the characters he has written. I mean...how can you NOT love Death? :D

    I have a signed copy of The Last Hero somewhere that my dad got for me one Christmas...actually, where IS that? :eek:
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    audiodave wrote:
    I LOVE TERRY PRATCHETT! He is my favourite author by far.

    :D

    Discworld books are just so fun and easy to read, and so many references to other things. He's a very smart man.

    I love so many of the characters he has written. I mean...how can you NOT love Death? :D

    I have a signed copy of The Last Hero somewhere that my dad got for me one Christmas...actually, where IS that? :eek:
    I have three signed books by him :p
    I am an uber-geek....
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  • audiodave
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    urbanhippie wrote:
    I have three signed books by him :p
    I am an uber-geek....
    My dad said he looks just like the pictures you always see of him. Wearing that wierd hat!

    We're all geeks here, it's all good. :)

    I still need to get Making Money (though my usual tactic is wait until my dad has finished reading them, then go and "visit" and drop in the "soooo do you have any good books I could borrow" line. It's a real money saver! :D).
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    audiodave wrote:
    My dad said he looks just like the pictures you always see of him. Wearing that wierd hat!

    We're all geeks here, it's all good. :)

    I still need to get Making Money (though my usual tactic is wait until my dad has finished reading them, then go and "visit" and drop in the "soooo do you have any good books I could borrow" line. It's a real money saver! :D).
    It's good.
    A little like the last one...but good all the same...
    My dad nicks my books off me! *sighs*
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    urbanhippie wrote:
    Looks like we are still a rare breed though...
    Any more....
    I think he's not that well known outside of the UK.

    I always wait for the paperback though, cheaper and easier to log around..so haven't read Making Money.
  • NaiveAndTrue
    NaiveAndTrue Posts: 9
    Pratchett is really hit and miss with me. LOVED Thief of time, but there's 2 or 3 of them sitting on my shelf unfinished because I lost interest in them.


    LOVE Neil - Just finished American Gods a few days ago, and I LOVED Neverwhere. I do have Good Omens, But I haven't started it yet, I have one more booksfree.com book to read, I'll read Good Omens when i send those back.
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  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    urbanhippie wrote:
    Are there any out there?
    The Discworld series of books has to be my favourite....
    And I love Neil Gaiman too, especially American Gods.
    Maybe it's my twisted sense of humour?

    I just read 1 of his books, and loved it
    something about moving pictures, moving images...
    can't remember the name
    but it was funny
    y la banda de Guille... cuando toca?
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Buru wrote:
    I just read 1 of his books, and loved it
    something about moving pictures, moving images...
    can't remember the name
    but it was funny
    yep, Moving Pictures, one of the best.
    esp if you're a film fan :)
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Pegasus wrote:
    I think he's not that well known outside of the UK.

    I always wait for the paperback though, cheaper and easier to log around..so haven't read Making Money.
    Have you read Wintersmith yet?
    Gotta love those wee free men :)
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I read this in the paper on Friday...:(


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/terry_prachett_alzheimers/


    Oh man. Why does life have to suck so bad....:(

    I have been reading his books since I was 14yrs old. I know it's not the end of the world, but it's pretty shitty all the same.
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  • Pegasus
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    urbanhippie wrote:
    Have you read Wintersmith yet?
    Gotta love those wee free men :)
    I'm a bit confused about that one because I picked it up from a supermarket few weeks ago, thinking it was new..and I started reading the first few pages and I swear I've read it already (but I don't own it)..
    don't know what happened there..

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