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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:17 pm
Mystrunner *Strolls in.* Personally, I favour anything with Rincewind. 3nodding I prefer tales with Death myself... And Susan. And the witches. But those three usually coincide a bit, I've noticed. ...Mostly because DEATH is freaking everywhere...
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:19 am
Charmcat Forgive my lateness, I was busy reading Going Postal. . . . Actually that's a lie. I was only busy reading Going Postal for four hours last night and one hour this morning. I was actually being lazy/adjusting to week 3 of the return for college. . . . I'll go restart the thread now. By the way, thanks for sending me a copy of the original first post, Shishio! I also saved a copy to be on the safe side, but it was wonderfully considerate of you. That's me! Considerate! Certainly not a jerk like my MSN name would have you believe... ninja
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:41 am
Gah, you people are FANS.
I just joind because I read some books (like 5 or something...) and they were fun...
You've read almost all of the discworld books?
Aren't there like 30 or something?
well, my favourite so far is Witches Abroad, that was my first pratchett too... I don't get how you cannot love Granny! xp
Well, I just finished The Fifth Elephant yesterday, second time I've read that...
Since I'm not very good at english it's hard to read new books, so I just read the ones I already read one more time smile
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:58 pm
I believe Going Postal is the 29th book or something. Next to of course the books which have something to do with Discworld but aren't really in the series. I am currently busy with Night Watch and still have to find Monstrous Regiments, but all the ones before I have read indeed. I'm actually hooked on the mans' way of writing. My fav. person is Death *grins*, I just like the way he looks upon everything. But I like a lot of characters and my favorite couple is Susan and Lobsang grins*.
Okay that was my intro to this guild, any more questions, just shoot!
Oh and person above me, what is your original language then? Mine is Flemish, but I prefer reading all books in the language they were originally written in. A lot of the humour and such can get lost in translations. At times there are a couple of words I can't get, but then I just skip them and read on without having a problem to understand it all.
Oh and for the group reading: don't take recent books as it appears I can't even find Monstrous Regiments anywhere as yet here *sobs*. But I would like to discuss certain persons, stories, ... .
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:33 pm
if you have access to a credit card, and the money behnd it, amazon.com is your friend.
lesse... 29? let's go through em!
rincewind books
-color of magic
-light fantastic
-sourcery
-eric
-interesting times
- last continent
-last hero. , so that's 7 right there
witch books
- wyrd sisters
-witches abroad
-equal rites
-masquerade
-... the vampire one... carpe jugulum
-the two tiffany/Nac mac feegle books
-(edit) forgot lords and ladies! heart
okay, add another 8 there, we're up to 15.
Death/Susan
-Mort
- reaper man? (am i making that one up?)
- hogfather
- soul music heart
-Theif of time
feels like there should be more of these... up to 20 now.
watch books
-Gaurds gaurds
-feet of clay
-night watch
-jingo
- men at arms
-5th elephant !
that's 26..
miscelaney
- pyramids
- amazing maurice and his educated rodents
-small gods
- moving pictures
-The truth
- and our newest addition, going postal.
that's 32, counting the children's books, not counting the stories in the 2 discworld science books or various short stories written for publication in magazines.
HA!
also, terry pratchett translated into french just sucks.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:08 pm
by the way, there are now three discworld science books. (or there will be...) I havent read:
last hero
hat full of sky (I'm reading wee free men now.)
thief of time
small gods
going posta..
OH, and you forgot the Monstrous Regiment, which I think is considered Watch, since it has vimes and so on.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:01 pm
Monstrous Regiment doesn't center on the Watch, so I wouldn't consider it Watch.
I do know that the American publisher has been billing Going Postal as the 30th book, and it matched up with my count.
. . . There are only two main series Discworld books I don't own. You heard me, OWN. And that's because I lost my copy of one of 'em . . .
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:51 pm
I am currently not owning:
Color of Magic
Light fantastic
Sourcery
last continent
interesting times
last hero
(wow, that's like all but one rincewind) (the only one I havent read is last hero
soul music
small gods
equal rites
carpe jugulum
night watch
the two feegle books
Jingo
pyramids
Amazing Maurice
Going postal
BUT ALL OF THE OTHERS I HAVE ARE SIGNED BY HIM!!! that is, I have 22 Terry Pratchett books (some that are not discworld) that are signed.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:55 am
Xander Dubois I believe Going Postal is the 29th book or something. Next to of course the books which have something to do with Discworld but aren't really in the series. I am currently busy with Night Watch and still have to find Monstrous Regiments, but all the ones before I have read indeed. I'm actually hooked on the mans' way of writing. My fav. person is Death *grins*, I just like the way he looks upon everything. But I like a lot of characters and my favorite couple is Susan and Lobsang grins*. Okay that was my intro to this guild, any more questions, just shoot! Oh and person above me, what is your original language then? Mine is Flemish, but I prefer reading all books in the language they were originally written in. A lot of the humour and such can get lost in translations. At times there are a couple of words I can't get, but then I just skip them and read on without having a problem to understand it all. Oh and for the group reading: don't take recent books as it appears I can't even find Monstrous Regiments anywhere as yet here *sobs*. But I would like to discuss certain persons, stories, ... . I am swedish... I can read them, but it's really hard to get into new books. I kind of have to concentrate when reading, and that takes the feeling away... I also prefer reading in english, alot of the jokes get really strange in swedish... sad in withces abroad (i think) there was a joke about bear/bare montain. I got so starnge the translator had to add a little thing explaining why it was so bad in the bottom of the page... gonk
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:58 am
I'd just love to have a bookshelf full of his books... I bet it looks really impressive... and I love looking at the covers after reading them. and you see things that are in the story, and you can go 'oh, that's him? i didn't get that before...'
Love the covers heart
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:44 am
the original cover art is really awsome, but they do sort of make it hard to tell dwarfs from trolls.
I have a bookshelf that's almost filled with books, and it's only his books.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:37 am
Well the serie of Discworld doesn't include for example Maurice and his amazing educated rodents. I am talking about the series, not the books that are hanging around it. And I think that makes 29 now ^-^. Serie Discworld1 = The Colour of Magic 2 = The Light Fantastic 3 = Equal Rites 4 = Mort 5 = Sourcery 6 = Wyrd Sisters 7 = Pyramids 8 = Guards! Guards! 9 = Eric 10 = Moving Pictures 11 = Reaper Man 12 = Witches Abroad 13 = Small Gods 14 = Lords and Ladies 15 = Men at Arms 16 = Soul Music 17 = Interesting Times 18 = Maskerade 19 = Feet of Clay 20 = Hogfather 21 = Jingo 22 = The Last Continent 23 = Carpe Jugulum 24 = The Fifth Elephant 25 = The Truth 26 = Thief of Time 27 = Night Watch 28 = Monstrous Regiment 29 = Going Postal Discworld AnnotationsX = The Last Hero X = The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents X = The Wee Free Men X = A Hat Full of Sky X = Once More, With Footnotes X = Wintersmith X = Thud X = When I Am Old I Shall Wear Midnight X = The Discworld Companion X = The Science of Discworld X = The Science of Discworld II: the Globe X = The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch X = The Streets of Ankh-Morpork X = The Discworld Mapp X = A Tourist Guide to Lancre X = Death's Domain Other AnnotationsX = Good Omens X = Strata X = The Dark Side of the Sun X = Truckers X = Diggers X = Wings X = Only You Can Save Mankind X = Johnny and the Dead X = Johnny and the Bomb X = The Carpet People X = The Unadulterated Cat Thoughts and ThemesX = The Turtle Moves! X = Song... X = ...and Dance X = Reverse Annotations X = Words from the Master Editorial CommentsX = The Origin of the APF X = Version history and Timeline X = Credits X = Page Numbers X = To Annotate or Not to Annotate X = The APF in Other Formats X = Third-party Annotations X = Bibliography X = Copying the APF X = Copyright Discussion
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:21 pm
meanwhile [What do you mean by "group reading"? Sort of sounds like a whole group of people sitting around a campfire reading out loud religious propaganda stare If it doesn't involve religious propaganda (Constable Visits being my least-fav Watchperson), count me in.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:15 pm
Carlanime meanwhile [What do you mean by "group reading"? Sort of sounds like a whole group of people sitting around a campfire reading out loud religious propaganda stare If it doesn't involve religious propaganda (Constable Visits being my least-fav Watchperson), count me in. What? eek Constable Visits-the-Infidels-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets may be a religious fanatic, but I take that character in the context of poking fun at religious fundamentalism... I think he's hilarious (in that context).
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:47 pm
Carlanime meanwhile What do you mean by "group reading"? Sort of sounds like a whole group of people sitting around a campfire reading out loud religious propaganda stare If it doesn't involve religious propaganda (Constable Visits being my least-fav Watchperson), count me in. Do want to recommend/choose a book to start with?
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