Thread: This is the Discworld, world and mirror of worlds...

DISCWORLD!!!!


Yeah, awesome series really

Game is pretty fun too :3

Games are fun, aye I've played all three (Discworld, Discworld II: Missing Presumed!?, and Discworld: Noir) that I have had computers that'd support it, but apparently an old game was made in 1986 based on Colour of Magic, which ran on the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64

Originally Posted by Suneagle

Personally, I'm not that fond of the early books, looking back. They're much weaker than the rest. Good to read just to get the basics - and they're not actually *bad* - but be prepared for some character changes.

Early books gave the world its shape (literally), and the characters were just starting out Death I think actually killed someone in an early book... he was just getting into his job, it seemed The characters evolve as the story progresses, so being prepped for changes is always good ^^

Originally Posted by Tyroki

The wonderful thing about the Discworld novels is that almost every joke has some real world or literaturary basis, which if you know the source the joke is mocking you will find the joke funnier, but the jokes are funny even if you don't know what the joke is mocking.

I still need to get my hands on the other death books as well as practically every other discworld novel Only one I own is Soul Music but I've read others. Love that Terry. He's a legend.

I watched the recent visual renditions of Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic. Loving the vision of Rincewind as an older man rather than young, which kinda makes some semblance of sense considering his 40 years of failure as a wizard.

Pratchett borrows heavily from real-world scenarios and history, yes it's a bit of a game finding out where he got references from. Some bits are easy (the dwarf Casanunda) and some bits are hard (the link between Solomon and the Seriph of Al-Khali)

There's collected compendiums of certain series produced a while back. They're a little out of date, but huge tomes collected the Rincewind series, the Watch books, the Witches books and all the ones about our favourite ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION.

Rincewind should never, I repeat, never have been played by David Jason. Eric Idle is the Rincewind I wanted

Woah, how come is there no activity on a Discworld thread!?o__O
i've started on discworld only a few weeks ago, so i've only read Making Money and am currently reading Sourcery. Both of them are spectacular, i'll state, as so many have done before me, that Terry Pratchett is and has been a genius throughout all of his 30-year career.

Can anyone recomend me which ones i should look for next?

yeah, most of Death's moments are priceless! so i can pretty much imagine what a book dedicated to him would look like. i'll see if i can find it around here, thanks!

Reaper Man's class, and I thoroughly enjoyed Soul Music (both Death books). I'm a big fan of the Rincewind, Witches and Watch series' though as well... in short, I'll recommend any of them

Do yourself a favour though, and try to read them in order. The latest one is a reasonable one to start on, but for a better introduction to the series, I would say start at the beginning: Colour of Magic

i'd love to be able to follow your advice, Hina, but I'm having serious trouble just finding Discworld books as it is! They're really sparce around here!X__X
But i'll try my best to find the ones you reccomend...^__~

Well, I worked in a bookshop that carried them, so I had no trouble getting hold of them kinda cheaty, maybe, but it got the job done ^_^

why is it that good luck continuously elude me? I guess it's because some people hog it all for themselves...*glares at hina*

But my mom's going to the states soon, so maybe i'll ask her to bring me some of the hardest to find.

there isn't a Discworld Brigade, no, but if there's enough people about that want to talk about it they can do

The Watch books are interesting because we see that the city's organized crime and it pretty much regulates itself, not needing a modern police system as we know it, at least at the time. It's good to see how it progressed from the start as a rabble of life's squeezings up to the thriving civic monster we see in the latest books, and you now what, I reckon Carrot's important, but the person to credit in this, steering Vimes through his many brushes with the highest authority in the known Disc, is Lady Sybil. Without her, there'd be no modern Watch

Glad to hear you entered this fabulous facsimile of fantasy and fact, Teck! Came to it a bit late though, in '97 O_o

I adore Pratchett's exploration of the mad, sad world of "foot-the-ball" dare I say it, but Discworld seems to be saner in places than the real game. At least this one's sticking to its roots Best bit about this book so far (for me, anyway), is that we've not seen the wizards for yonks, and we get to see a bit more of the underlying mechanisms behind that behemoth, the Gormenghastly monstrosity that is UU

"There she bumps! Ho, the Megapode!"

"Thud!" was notable in that events took place almost entirely outside Ankh Morpork for the second half of the book. I think Vimes works best when he's in his back yard, but has shown remarkable adaptability and fits in very well with Uberwald, even though he's usually at his most bewildered there He's well suited to his diplomatic role, as described in Fifth Elephant.