Guide to Discworld

[packman]

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If you've never read the recently late Terry Pratchett's series of Discworld, you've missed some clever, witty and entertaining reading. He wove quite a world with some interesting characters that would rival Tolkien.


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[el_bryanto]

1. Disc World is an amazing series.

Great stuff.

Bryant

[malthaussen]

2. I suppose there are people on the planet who have not read him...

... hard as it is to believe. The man was a genious, and I use his "Boots" theory often to explain basic economic reality to the privileged.

Although J.K. Rowling is no doubt a fine author, it saddened me when she became more popular than Terry. Ah, the power of the movies.

-- Mal

[onehandle]

3. We have all of his work on Audible.

Been binge listening lately.

Still devastated that it all ends with one more book next year.

[FLPanhandle]

4. Each book is a little masterpiece

You can find amazing quotes on almost every page.

He will be missed.

"The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."

[planetc]

5. on the bus to and from work

I was lucky enough to be able to get regular bus service to and from my job, and I read many discworld novels on those buses. In paperback, they weigh what, about 6 or 7 oz? In the hand, and flowing through the brain, each one provided delicious distraction from the tensions at either end of the ride, and multiple laughs per page. As one tiny example: "He was a man who could open beer bottles with other peoples' teeth." Sir Terry was some kind of genius, the accessible, hilariously realistic kind, the scientifically literate and wildly imaginative kind. May he reign forever.

[hifiguy]

6. Sir Terry managed to create a fully integrated universe

of his own while holding up a mirror to ours.

He was a wise and very funny writer and I have spent many hours in his delightful literary company.

[demmiblue]

7. K&R (plus images)

[packman]

8. Thanks for the post

love stuff about Discworld.