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 Post subject: Terry Pratchett -- dry British wit on Discworld
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:14 pm 
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Has anyone else here read any of Pratchett's stuff? Some of it can be quite funny! I must admit, though, that I prefer some of his kids' books like The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents or The Wee Free Men to some of his more "adult" works...he gets much sillier in them...
It is all set upon a world called Discworld, and he takes on many many of the cliches of fantasy and horror, as well of our modern real world...
I think my favorite of his books that I have read so far is The Amazing Maurice..which, by the way, won Britain's highest award for children's books...

His Discworld Books:
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Wee Free Men
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Soursery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Feet of Clay
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Hogfeather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
Night Watch
The Last Hero
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)

Hope I got 'em all! Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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 Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett -- dry British wit on Discworld
PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 1:34 am 
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I love Pratchett. Just as good as Douglas Adams (rest in peace). I've read Good Omens and a slew of the discworld books, my favorite being Thief of Time (Highdrake, I think you'd get a kick out of this one). ________________
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 Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett -- dry British wit on Discworld
PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:56 pm 
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How can one person write so many???

I've only read Carpe Jugulum but I really enjoyed it! Vote in the Fantasy Author Showdown<i></i>


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