What is your all-time favorite from the Discworld novels (by the famous Terry Pratchett) ?
Greetings Peter
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What is your all-time favorite from the Discworld novels (by the famous Terry Pratchett) ?
Greetings Peter
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fax@sffa.community · 4 pts · 3y
I really enjoyed Men at Arms and Jingo and Night Watch were also good. Basically I love the Watch subseries.
DarthVi@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
I just started this series this year by picking up Going Postal, which I finished something like a month ago. I liked it a lot and as my "gateway drug" into the Discworld, I think I will always have good memories of it.
MagpieRhymes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I mean, that’s like asking which child is your favourite (she says, having no children of her own). I honestly couldn’t pick a favourite - as others have said, the early ones aren’t great compared to the full body of work, but I love all of them.
Perhaps The Last Hero is my favourite owned book, if only because it’s a signed hardcover - I saw Terry speak in the early ‘00s, and had him sign it then.
Spacebar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I'm reading this series for the first time now. I'm on book #14 - Lords and Ladies. I think The Colour of Magic followed by Night Watch have been my favorites so far.
I'm hoping to hear from Rincewind and The Luggage again!
gac11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
This may be a dumb question, but if I want to try to dip my feet in to the series, is it best to read in chronological order or some other order? I haven't started yet, but it's on my list.
PeterLinuxer@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
I don't think you need a particular order.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
I just borrowed books at random from the library as they became available, so the order won't really affect your enjoyment imho. Pratchett does a good job of quickly reintroducing concepts and characters even in later books, so you're never ever missing actual critical information
Bebo@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3y
I love the whole discworld series. But if I had to pick a specific favourite I would pick Small Gods.
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Nightwatch and Going Postal. I'm also very fond of The Truth.
im_new_here@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 0 pts · 3y
I have only read the first book so far but enjoyed it. I have a stack of books I want to get through and then I'll dive into more of the series. Any books I should be looking forward to, any I should skip?
br3d@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
The first couple are widely held to be the least good. I'd suggest jump into the Night Watch set (Guards Guards etc) or the Granny Weatherwax set (Wyrd Sisters etc) - they're widely held to be good starting points
(Edit: I appear to be fond of the phrase "widely held" today...)
IonAddis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y