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Discworld; Terry Pratchett
Topic Started: May 13 2008, 07:11 PM (101 Views)
Specialist290	May 13 2008, 07:11 PM Post #1
Admin-type Guy Posts: 8,750 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: October 1, 2005	Anyone else here a Terry Pratchett / Discworld fan? Been reading a bit of his stuff lately, and I have to say it's very amusing For those not in the know, Pratchett writes comedy fantasy, similar to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was for science fiction (except slightly less over-the-top... well, at least the later ones are). It originally started out as a straight-up parody of epic fantasy in general, but since then it's gone on to spoof detective stories, power politics, and a number of other genres and settings. The stories are actually quite good in their own right, too. Don't worry too much about reading them in order; all of the books can be read as stand-alones, although some of them (the City Watch, the Lancre Witches (haven't actually read any of those yet...), and the Rincewind books) can be grouped together by recurring viewpoint characters.
	AK-47? Check Fedora? Check Fur coat? Check Sunglasses? Check Good to go...


Dark Death	May 13 2008, 08:30 PM Post #2
Ruler of a new Utopia Posts: 3,245 Group: Members Member #104 Joined: June 27, 2006 Gender Female Innate Color Red	I have like the first 3 that came out. Not bad, i liked em.
	~every breath you take, brings you closer to death~ ~Dark Death~


Fremskritt	May 17 2008, 01:26 PM Post #3
The poster formerly known as TP Posts: 11,047 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: October 30, 2005 Gender Male	Terry Pratchett, hmm. I did read a bit from him. I got a weird relation to his books to be honest. I love the characters, who all have their own screwed up sense of logic, but I think that the stories in themselves suck. Luckily the characters make up for that, so I enjoyed all the books I've read from the series.



Fremskritt	Sep 4 2008, 02:38 PM Post #4
The poster formerly known as TP Posts: 11,047 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: October 30, 2005 Gender Male	Been reading some more, I've become a real Pratchett fan over the summer. But yeah, if the stories were as good as the characters this series would be golden.



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