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Got Nation because the last few posts, my first new Pratchett book since his death (GNU Terry), and was teary-eyed two goddam pages in. So thank you thread. 
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Alhazred posted:Emilia Clarke truly is the best actor of her generation.
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Fat Samurai posted:Got Nation because the last few posts, my first new Pratchett book since his death (GNU Terry), and was teary-eyed two goddam pages in. So thank you thread. Nation is, imo, the best thing pTerry wrote. It’s beautiful and sad and hopeful and funny and harrowing. The scene where Mau dissociates on the beach is so very good.
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I need to pick Nation back up - I got fairly far into it on a flight but my dad-duties on the vacation kept me from continuing on. Also had a realization while telling our dog she couldn't have any of the meatloaf we made because it has onions and other stuff in it. The chef in Making Money having a violent reaction whenever he hears a certain word was initially just funny to me (dogs wouldn't like spicy food after all). But it makes sense because dogs can't eat garlic, per- Nom d'une bouilloire! Bugger.
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Are there any Terry Pratchett books about thieves/the thieves Guild?
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neurotech posted:Are there any Terry Pratchett books about thieves/the thieves Guild? Nope.
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neurotech posted:Are there any Terry Pratchett books about thieves/the thieves Guild? None of the novels, no, but the 2002 Discworld Diary was a Thieves Guild one, providing a fair bit of background. 
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There's a bit about the thieves guild in Thief of Time, but I wouldn't really call it a thieves guild novel.
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I think most of the action in the Thieves Guild proper was Carrot arresting the Guildmaster.
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Anyone else doing the Discworld Convention in Birmingham in a couple of weeks? I forgot I bought a ticket way back in 2019 for the 2020 one, which rolled over and over, and now I guess I’m actually going.
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neurotech posted:Are there any Terry Pratchett books about thieves/the thieves Guild? there was but it got stolen
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The_Doctor posted:Anyone else doing the Discworld Convention in Birmingham in a couple of weeks? I forgot I bought a ticket way back in 2019 for the 2020 one, which rolled over and over, and now I guess I’m actually going. Unfortunately I couldn't get hold of one, or I would have. I had to miss 2018 because a work colleague was getting married and there was no cover, so there's people I haven't seen in six years now.
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I won’t have seen a lot of people in either 20 years, or at least since the AFP Terry memorial meetup in London. On the “plus side”, I have covid right now, so I can worry a little less during the con itself.
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Gnome de plume posted:there was but it got stolen 
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The_Doctor posted:I won’t have seen a lot of people in either 20 years, or at least since the AFP Terry memorial meetup in London. I was at that - I happened to be in town to see The Who after the gig was postponed.
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Gnome de plume posted:there was but it got stolen I hope they got a receipt.
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I had only heard of Terry Pratchett through this forum and just finished reading Small Gods because it was recommended as a good standalone. I went in blind with no clues as to even basics like genre or anything. I’m not sure it was for me, but I’m not sure it wasn’t, either. I have never read very much fiction. I think I will read back through recommendations and pms to see where to go from here
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freeedr posted:I have never read very much fiction.  Pratchett not actually a great place to start, because he constantly drops references to other pieces of fiction (like, say, Shakespeare)
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freeedr posted:I have never read very much fiction. How came you to start exploring it more?
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Kesper North posted:
well, I meant after school. I read a lot of classical fiction for school, but that was 30+ years ago. Shakespeare, poe, dickens, Twain, etc. I read Frankenstein and Dracula. I actually think that was one small area that my lovely school system in Texas those decades ago didn’t fail. ovenboy posted:How came you to start exploring it more? Because people on this forum have mentioned Pratchett in passing a bunch over the years and even though I don’t read a lot of fiction I find it to be very culturally valuable and just altogether a good thing. I also love the way some of the discussions about it in this very thread seem to go. Small Gods was written really well. I’m starting to think maybe I’ll just go whole hog and blast through two or three dísc world books and see how I’m getting on
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The Truth and Going Postal are both excellent stand-alone books, probably two of my favorites.
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YggiDee posted:The Truth and Going Postal are both excellent stand-alone books, probably two of my favorites. I think they're worth reading later though, after Anhk-Morepork has been developed in more detail.
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They're the ones I started with and it worked pretty well
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freeedr posted:well, I meant after school. I read a lot of classical fiction for school, but that was 30+ years ago. Shakespeare, poe, dickens, Twain, etc. I read Frankenstein and Dracula. I actually think that was one small area that my lovely school system in Texas those decades ago didn’t fail. Cool! I took it to mean that you hadn't read any fiction barely at all. I started with Men At Arms, and then explored from there according to what was available at my little library. I think most people generally just stumble in, and it seems to work out! Was there anything that you especially liked/disliked or was intrigued by in Small Gods?
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freeedr posted:Small Gods was written really well. I’m starting to think maybe I’ll just go whole hog and blast through two or three dísc world books and see how I’m getting on Try Guards! Guards! or Mort as your next step. Maybe Wyrd Sisters if you’re familiar with Shakespeare at all. They’re all the start of some of the various series that make up the greater Discworld range.
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freeedr posted:I had only heard of Terry Pratchett through this forum and just finished reading Small Gods because it was recommended as a good standalone. I went in blind with no clues as to even basics like genre or anything. I’m not sure it was for me, but I’m not sure it wasn’t, either. I have never read very much fiction. I think I will read back through recommendations and pms to see where to go from here Someone got me to read Small Gods years ago as my first one and I too bounced off of it a little bit. Without having a sense of Pratchett's overall sense of humour and the wider setting the jabs at religion and philosophy felt pretty shallow. Years later I read The Fifth Elephant and Carpe Jugulum and enjoyed them much more, and then I went back to the beginning (and Small Gods was much better on the second read). Imo Wyrd Sisters is the best place to start, though you probably wouldn't go wrong with Lords and Ladies. Why yes, the witches are my favourite.
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There are as many recommendations for first as there are books, though some are more common than others. I started on Men at Arms because that's what my Pennsylvania village anglophile english teacher had. She thought I would like it having read through all of hhgtg.
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Beachcomber posted:There are as many recommendations for first as there are books, though some are more common than others. The Colour of Magic used to carry the tagline "Jerome K Jerome meets Douglas Adams (with a touch of Peter Pan)". That was what intrigued us to try it, in those halcyon days when there were only two Discworld books.
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I started off with The Truth and enjoyed it greatly. Going to Colour of Magic afterwards was quite the shock though.
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Publication order or gtfo
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I read Reaper Man first, then a bunch of the earlier books in basically random order based on when I found them and the first on publication book I picked up was Interesting Times.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Publication order or gtfo The first two books bear little to no resemblance to what it evolves into. I don't know if I would have kept reading. Probably, because I was starved for content, but not certainly.
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Beachcomber posted:The first two books bear little to no resemblance to what it evolves into. I don't know if I would have kept reading. Probably, because I was starved for content, but not certainly. Ehh, the word play is the same, the world is a little more zany and technicolor, and the fantasy parody is broader but it's still very recognisable.
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the first few books really just lean a lot more heavily on the comedy/parody elements without really having as prominent an emotional core as later entries like guards! guards!, which might make some readers bounce off if they start there
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Doing the needful because somebody has to:
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I barely see them mentioned, but I think the "Science of Discword" books are probably some of my favorite Pratchett stuff, just because I enjoy both halves and I'm not honestly sure if I prefer Pratchett's side about the Unseen University wizards being a gaggle of barely functioning idiots who pull through or Cohen and Stewarts half musing about related science topics in a very easy to digest pop-science way more. I definitely prefer the approach later Wizard stuff took to focusing on the misadventures of a dozen or so UU head men over Rincewind, with Rincewind more the put upon schmuck they drag behind them than focusing solely on Rincewind as the earlier Wizarding books did.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Publication order or gtfo Even Terry said don’t start with Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic.
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