Terry Pratchett's Diskworld Series

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Have you read it?

  • I have not

    Votos: 7 5.0%

  • I've heard of it

    Votos: 22 15.6%

  • I've read a book or two

    Votos: 12 8.5%

  • I've read a few books

    Votos: 14 9.9%

  • I've read many books

    Votos: 43 30.5%

  • I've read all of the books

    Votos: 43 30.5%
  • Total de votantes
    141
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glass_houses dijo:
That's 'Discworld' with a C, you subliterate mouthbreather.
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thread title is still spelt with a K and im still triggered

glass_houses dijo:
Would I have had such a powerful attachment to the Discworld if I hadn't grown up embedded in it, and instead came late? I have utterly no idea. I do know that if I ever get my hands on the mindless woke AIDS ridden scum that ejaculated on top of a shredded copy of 'Guards! Guards!' and called it television, I'm going shove the entire book up their urethra before tearing them limb from limb.
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they waited until he died before going into production with The Watch and at that point it was just another IP being sacrificed to diversity and moloch.

i believe he had full creative control and final say over every adapatation (which is why the TV movies from 2006-2010 were as good as they were) and comparing the watch to those, i can't imagine Pratchett even with full blown alzheimers being comfortable with what they did to his characters.

teriyakiburns dijo:
Speaking of Rhianna, I find it a little cheeky that she made a big show of destroying her father's notes in accordance with his will, but then apparently kept a copy to incorporate into the show bible for The Watch. She outright complains that the usurping producers of the show used locations and ideas, which had only appeared in Terry's notes and not in his books, in ways that didn't fit the original conception, but neglects to mention that they could only have had access to those notes because of her.
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lol what a selfish cunt

anyway:

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this list is definitive and final

also the first Discworld PC game is... good? its an adventure game and suffers from being an adventure game but it has eric idle and tony robbins and runs easily on ScummVM

also Discworld makes for good audiobooks, the majority of the early ones are read by nigel planer who does a decent job, and the later ones are done by stephen briggs, who worked a lot with Pratchett and fucking nails it and i still put them on to fall asleep to
 

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spacko dijo:
this list is definitive and final
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>all of the Witches books in D-tier  except the one that might deserve it
How can one man be so wrong?

Re: the original TV adaptations: they're so-so, but The Colour of Magic (which is really a combination of the books TCoM and The Light Fantastic) is worth a watch, if for no other reason than that it has Tim Curry as the wizard Trimon in it.
 
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The witches books are pretty decent, but they're not the same kind of story as some of the others.

That's the brilliant thing about pratchett, he wrote a fuckton of books all in one setting but they're wildly different genres - and people don't really notice. Vimes stories are often truecrime/thriller/mystery novels, you have love stories, you have science fiction, you have fantasy (of course, but some are explicitly such), you have thief of time which is clearly an action movie thriller in book form, you even have a goddamn chess novel.

The Tiffany books are just young adult novels, and in that grouping they're a heap better than other shit out there. I'll re-read them from time to time. I'm not really going to bother rereading snuff or raising steam. Pyramids is a fun romp.

Making money is decent but it's really close to going postal.

Interestingly enough I like the books where Death is a side character more than the ones where he's a main character, but I also have a soft spot for his granddaughter.
 
reptile baht spaniard rid dijo:
Interestingly enough I like the books where Death is a side character more than the ones where he's a main character, but I also have a soft spot for his granddaughter.
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I know what you mean, though Reaper Man is very good. But maybe thats because it reminds me of this British horror short story I once read about a man and his family who stop for the night at a farm with wheat outside, and there's a cursed scythe, which, when the father picks it up, gives him dreams of endlessly cutting wheat, except it isn't wheat, it's the souls of the living, and him taking it up gives the previous guy release, but traps him forever; the wheat must be cut, forever, by whomever takes up the scythe, and he slowly realises it's not a dream, but he's cutting the souls of his family along with the others just like the previous guy...

I just can't look at the wheat in that book and not think of that story.
 
Night Watch is the definitive Vimes novel and it's a damn shame it took Sir Terry five books to make something that really made the old cop shine. If there was ever a novel that could be ported over to film or even a video game(I'm thinking a Yakuza-like where you fight random street punks and do a bunch of bizarre side-stories) from Discworld, it would be that.
Thud! should be higher as well, and the witches books are at least low B-tier.
 
I've started reading the Discworld books this year and have really enjoyed them. I was planning on reading them in publication order, but Death quickly became my favorite character, so I started reading all his books first. Then I moved on to the Night Watch series. I don't know when I would go back to the Rincewind or Witches books
 
Replacement Account dijo:
I'm wondering who the best Discworld villains are.

More of them are good (as a villain I mean) than bad. Dunno if I really cared for the Dragon King of Arms or whatever his name was, but I didn't hate him.
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It depends on what you're going for in your villains - there are sympathetic villains, there are insane villains, there are frenemies, it's quite a cast.

I'm probably going to single out the Auditors as my favorite. And even those he was able to make sympathetic.
 
glass_houses dijo:
Good literature speaks to people past genre, history, culture or sex. If you're incapable of reading a book without your dick getting in the way, that's on you, not anyone else.
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There's a joke in there about size and your goliath penis physically covering the pages, but it's far too early for me to word it hilariously.
 
reptile baht spaniard rid dijo:
It depends on what you're going for in your villains - there are sympathetic villains, there are insane villains, there are frenemies, it's quite a cast.

I'm probably going to single out the Auditors as my favorite. And even those he was able to make sympathetic.
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Oh yeah the Auditors were interesting. Their entire goal was reducing the amount of paperwork they had to do. Did they survive the events of Thief of Time? I don't remember.
 
Replacement Account dijo:
I'm wondering who the best Discworld villains are.

More of them are good (as a villain I mean) than bad. Dunno if I really cared for the Dragon King of Arms or whatever his name was, but I didn't hate him.
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Teatime was a genuinely creepy fuck. Lady Felmet was pretty reprehensible. Lily Weatherwax is very scary, and murders many people for the sake of a 'story'. Angua's brother, Wolfgang, murdered their sibling iirc, and was a sadistic fuck. Carcer from Night Watch was basically a pure psychopath. Lord Rust's son was a slaver and if memory serves, had a predilection for girls who were both unwilling and too young.

But on average, very few of the Discworld antagonists are all bad, just as very few of the protagonists are all good. Even some of the worst acts were performed by individuals or groups that had a noble purpose in their mind. Dios from Pyramids built a civilisation as well as a method of immortality.

Pratchett said something along the lines that most of the worst things that have ever happened, have happened not because humans are fundamentally bad, but because humans are fundamentally human, and that's what he wrote.
 
Yeah, his "pure creepy villains" like Teatime and Carcer are "scary" in one way, but the most frightening are the "doing bad for good reasons" type which are more recognizable. The most obvious of these is Vimes himself; when he sees how he could easily become the "good villain".
 
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Yeah, his "pure creepy villains" like Teatime and Carcer are "scary" in one way, but the most frightening are the "doing bad for good reasons" type which are more recognizable. The most obvious of these is Vimes himself; when he sees how he could easily become the "good villain".
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I'd disagree that Vimes is the most obvious. I think that title belongs to Granny Weatherwax. But Vimes certainly is a contender.
 
glass_houses dijo:
I'd disagree that Vimes is the most obvious. I think that title belongs to Granny Weatherwax. But Vimes certainly is a contender.
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Granny knows what's happening, Vimes is oblivious until he realizes, which sneaks up on the reader.

Maybe it's just that I never really "feel" Granny but I can kinda get into Vimes' head sometimes.
 
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