Terry Pratchett Fans...?

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (MeinHerzBrennt)

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:27:57 GMT

Favourite book is Making Money, mainly because of the image of Mr Fusspot with an 'intimate item' in his mouth causing him to backflip every so often. Funny things you remember. ^_^

Fave characture is Nanny Ogg cause she's a family minded mafia-like warlord with an evil cat.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Devilsdaughter)

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:30:39 GMT

I was introduced to Terrys books by my brother when I was young. The first book I read was Wyrd Sisters after that I read every one I could get my hands on.

I actually went to the Clarecraft Discworld event in suffolk in 2003. The theme was 'Pyramids' I met Terry and Stephen Briggs who signed my books and my discworld map. Terry and I had a conversation about cats (he had not long written The Unadulterated Cat) it was brilliant and I feel vedry lucky to have met such a great author :)

I do think though that his earlier Discworld books are much better and havent bothered with any of his recent ones. Reaper Man will always be my fave book because Death is just brilliant :)

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (OneArmedScissor)

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:21:57 GMT

I have what is approaching a full collection of Pratchett, which sits there on top of my bookshelf making me happy, but sadly I haven't got much time to read them any more.

My favourite is Thief of Time, and that's partly because Susan is one of my favourite characters - in this one you get to see Susan using all her supernatural qualities without (unlike, for example, Hogfather) much interference from her grandfather. So you get to see a lot more of what she's capable of.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Nisko)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:50:57 GMT

I once played the King that got assassinated in Mort. I died with style.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Hevs)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:28:31 GMT

Love Terry Pratchetts books - my fave is Mort. He was my lead in to Neil Gaiman, reading Good Omens lead me to Sandman and other Neil Gaiman works

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (polythenegirl)

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:36:02 GMT

http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4970

Have a look at this one guys

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Galeris)

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:17:21 GMT

guybrush

Little Envy

There were PC games? That's news to me.

I've only read "The Wee Free Men" by Pratchett when I was little. It wasn't bad. I don't actually know why I never picked up more stuff written by him.

Point and Click the best type, they had nothing on Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer though!

Huge fan of point and click myself, but my favorites was Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis, but in the mid 90's there was so many good point and click games that it's close to unfair to list just some... Remeber playing Mokey Island on my Amiga, think it was close to 10 disc's, swapped disk each other minute....

With a lot of the classics getting remade for iStuff and Android now, we can just hope for a remake of the Discword stuff too :-)

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Cheecharone)

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:00:10 GMT

Discworld the pc game with Rincewind - awesome!

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (guybrush)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:21:14 GMT

Little Envy

There were PC games? That's news to me.

I've only read "The Wee Free Men" by Pratchett when I was little. It wasn't bad. I don't actually know why I never picked up more stuff written by him.

Point and Click the best type, they had nothing on Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer though!

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Little Envy)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:11:05 GMT

There were PC games? That's news to me.

I've only read "The Wee Free Men" by Pratchett when I was little. It wasn't bad. I don't actually know why I never picked up more stuff written by him.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Galeris)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:07:04 GMT

Huge Pratchett fan here. Played the pc-games in the 90's (think I maybe played them on my Amiga..? Not shure), but did not actualley got into his books before 5 - 6 years ago. Favortite books must be Good Omens, Night Watch, and Going Postal.

My favorite Pratchett-moment must be when I'd been on a Iron Maiden concert i Bergen, Norway. A friend an meself bought a copy of Unseen Academicals each before flying back to Oslo, sitting there laughing for ourself, with a lot of other Maiden fans probably thinking "wtf???" :-D

Favortite caracters must be Death, Moist Von Lipwig and The Librarian.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (polythenegirl)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:17:24 GMT

ClownPrince

Had no idea they were planning more TV adaptations. If they're still doing Unseen i'll give it a watch, didn't think the others were as good as they could have been though. Would love to see a movie adaptation of Guards Guards (and hopefully a watch franchise) so long as it was done well with a decent budget. Would go with Duncan Jones directing, Jane Goldman and Neil Gaiman scripting, Clive Owen as Vimes, Mark Addy as Colon, Armie Hammer as Carrot, Danny Dyer as Nobby, Rufus Sewell as Vetinari, Ruth Jones as Sybil and Shane Ritchie as CMOT Dibbler. Sorry went into fanboy dream cast territory there.

Really hope Terry can manage a couple more, I want to see Moist's arc finished and him maybe ending with Vetinari's Ankh-Morpork project being completed (maybe Vetinari dying at the end and leaving us on a cliffhanger).

Moist's will def be finished - Raising Taxes has been inteh works for a while.

Not sure when the next Discworld will be out though with the Long earth project that's beign worked on.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (izzi1991)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:38:04 GMT

Iv never got round to reading any of Terry Pratchett books. My dad brought me a super old hardback copy of sourcery last week from a local charity shop. I was about to sell it cause it was selling for a decent amount on amazon. I shall have to check it out before i sell it lol.

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (ClownPrince)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:50:40 GMT

Had no idea they were planning more TV adaptations. If they're still doing Unseen i'll give it a watch, didn't think the others were as good as they could have been though. Would love to see a movie adaptation of Guards Guards (and hopefully a watch franchise) so long as it was done well with a decent budget. Would go with Duncan Jones directing, Jane Goldman and Neil Gaiman scripting, Clive Owen as Vimes, Mark Addy as Colon, Armie Hammer as Carrot, Danny Dyer as Nobby, Rufus Sewell as Vetinari, Ruth Jones as Sybil and Shane Ritchie as CMOT Dibbler. Sorry went into fanboy dream cast territory there.

Really hope Terry can manage a couple more, I want to see Moist's arc finished and him maybe ending with Vetinari's Ankh-Morpork project being completed (maybe Vetinari dying at the end and leaving us on a cliffhanger).

Re: RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (ClownPrince)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:33:27 GMT

Favourite book, probably Small Gods, but I love the watch books as well and thus my favourite character is Vimes (predictable), I even laugh at the Vimesisms, which is really out of character for me.

Now to read the rest of the thread rather than just looking at the first entry.

Re:Terry Pratchett Fans...? (The Bear)

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:27:45 GMT

Just finished Snuff, loved Willikins in it and Vimes was as awesome as usual but...just didn't feel it quite wrapped up a number of subplots. Hopefully (unlikely given real world considerations ) we'll get another book or two elaborating on the whole goblin thing.

Re:Terry Pratchett Fans...? (LittleK)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:59:47 GMT

I started reading Pratchett when I was abou 9/10. Nicked 'Maskerade' off of my big brother's bookshelf 'cause I liked the title.

My fave books are the Watch. I love Vimes and Vetanari.
I adore the Witches books, especially for the little (well, usually massive) nods to other literary works.
Rincewind and Death are also awesome.

I did really like Nation, although a lot of it didn't really feel like Pratchett. I was unimpressed with Unseen Academicals but I'll give it another chance soon...

Re:Terry Pratchett Fans...? (littleangel)

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:41:14 GMT

got the new book today "Snuff" read a few pages and it looking to be a great vimes book :D

Re:Terry Pratchett Fans...? (PunkRockJay)

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:04:25 GMT

whats a good starting point for this author? sorry if this has been asked before

RE: Terry Pratchett Fans...? (Doctor Vodka)

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:55:05 GMT

I used to love the discworld games, have them both on my iphone, as well as some of the classic lucasarts games.

Anyway, I digress, Good Omens is my favourite Pratchett book, Crowley is a legend