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Big fan here, think i've read pretty much every single one and i'm eagerly anticipating 'Thud!' :) favorite characters have gotta be the ankh morpork city guard, closely followed by rincewind and death in joint second. The witches of lancre are near the bottom i'm afraid except for carpe jugulum, that book rocked! I know there are other fans, would love to hear how long you've been reading him, what your favorite books/characters are.
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People have alluded to the sheer awesomeness of Pratchett, but lo! (not Lo) his very own thread! I started reading a few years back with the Hogfather. Now I've read most, but not all I'm afraid. I don't think theres a book I've read as of yet that was dissatisfying.
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I started reading Pratchett because it was the only halfway decent thing my high-school library offered.
Plus, being twelve and all, it was quite refreshing and somewhat funny that it had swearing in, haha.
Pratchett kicks serious ass... I would give exmaples but I can't think of any right now. I know I read the first series of The Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic and... uh... the other ones, but after that it was all odds and ends. Hogfather was cool.
I haven't read a lot of the more recent ones (Fifth Elephant onwards, really) and that is a shame. Maybe when money starts flowing more I'll pick them up again.
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I have been a fan of Pratchett since I picked up my first Pratchett book, Diggers. I love the Discworld series, although my list of favourite characters start with Granny weatherwax and end with the Night watch crew. I didnt really enjoy any of the books with them in, mainly cause I read fantasy to escape, and theyre just not "out there" enough or as insightful as the witches and Death. I also really liked The Wee Free Men, but am waiting for the fiance to buy me Hat Full of Sky, he will eventually.
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My dad introduced me to Pratchett. The hook that got me to read them was when I was told about the Librarian - the idea that the librarian is an orang-utan who'se only capable of saying "Oook" really tickled me for some reason.
Favourite characters: The Nac Mac Feegle, Sam Vimes, Death.
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I have every book and I love them all except the Witchs.
Just don't like them....
The new book Thud is focused on The Watch, whih is always good ^_^
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I own every book Pratchett's ever written except the discworld year books. Fo' real. All the discworld books, all the maps, the cookery book, the sketchbook, the companions and quiz book, all three science of Discworld books, The Bromeliad, Carpet People, The Unadulterated Cat, Good Omens, Strata, Dark Side of the Sun, the Johhny Books...etc. etc.
Lets just use the terminology of black metal, in saying that
PRATCHETT IST KRIEG.
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PRATCHETT IST KRIEG.
But he's not war... BM terminology is wack yo dawg... sorry :D
I work in a library so I get all of them toooooo quickly. I've read all of them and intend to buy them once I get some proper disposable income. I love Rincewind and the Nightwatch but I absolutely adore the Wee Free Men.
Ye Ken?
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I love Pratchett too. But did anyone else think that Monstrous Regiment was really disappointing? It was the first book in the Discworld series that I didn't really enjoy reading. Going Postal was a bit better, I thought, but still not as good as anything pre-MR.
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I thought Going Postal was awesome. I agree on MR, pretty bad form from Terry :p
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I love Pratchett too. But did anyone else think that Monstrous Regiment was really disappointing? It was the first book in the Discworld series that I didn't really enjoy reading. Going Postal was a bit better, I thought, but still not as good as anything pre-MR.
Wasn't too stuck on Montrous Regiment, but I thought Going Postal was brilliant, as was The Truth. Williamm de Worde and the staff of the Ankh Morpork Times are up there with the Night Watch to me.
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Going Postal was neat. My favorite has to be Night Watch, though - without a doubt the best Vimes book he's written.
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My favorite characters are the watch (Sam Vimes is probably one of my favorite characters, from anything, ever. Especially when someone's trying to assassinate him), followed by death, followed by the witches. I'm not too struck on Rincewind in comparison, but all of the books kick arse compared to any other series. I haven't read Going Postal or Science of the Discworld III yet though (I'm poor >_<).
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I've read all the old ones and Night Watch but not Going Postal or Monstrous Regiment; I've been getting enthusiastic reviews of both but from different people; but I haven't had anyone tell me he was disappointed of either so far.
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I love Pratchett too. But did anyone else think that Monstrous Regiment was really disappointing? It was the first book in the Discworld series that I didn't really enjoy reading. Going Postal was a bit better, I thought, but still not as good as anything pre-MR.
I've noticed after I had read several of Pratchett's book, each successive one seemed somewhat dissappointing at first until after I re-read it three or four times. If I would hazard a guess, I would say it is because it's easy to forget that it took me several re-readings of his earlier books to fully appreciate and understand everything that was going on and I hadn't done so yet with the new one. Once I had, everything started falling into place and my enjoyment grew. I hope that makes sense.
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can't be appreciated enough, this one. has warped my mind since i read his first books. though it is a shame to admit that the country currently live in (germany) is unable to get his newest publications. but there is always amazon. my favorite one is jingo though. and, ooh, the wee-free-men are among my favorite folks of all the times...how can one not love small blue men who headbutt anything in sight despite its height weight or strength?
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I am currently reading "Thud!"
It frequently makes me chuckle.
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I started reading whatshamacallit, the one where death is missing or something, when I had to go to hospital for a few nights to get my jaw fixed (long story, don't ask), but I never picked it up after that. Can't even remember the title anymore. But from the 50-ish pages I did read, I find it a pity that I didn't finish it. I'm not going to bother to pick it up again though, if I was able to locate the damn thing to begin with. Ah well. If I were to take every book I ever merely started and never finished, I'd have... 2 books, come to think of it. Heh :)
Could someone refresh my memory on the book I was reading? Much appreciated!
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Was it soul music? im reading it right this minuite. Belive me, it gets even better after the first 50 pages.
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No, that's not it... Fuck I need to stop killing braincells.
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Reaper Man.
"THUD!" incidentally, is the name of the Discworld Board Game... which I own. It rocks. I can play Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl!
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Reaper Man, that's the one! I thought the concept of death not working and the implications it would have on a fantasy universe was a brilliant starting point. That's one of the reasons I feel a strange affinity with the Discworld books, even though I never really read any.
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Terry Pratchett is an amazing writer, I've read 18 books so far. My favorite has to be either Mort or Soul Music. I'm currently reading The Fifth ELephant which is okay. If you love Discworld I suggest you play Discworld MUD (http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/) I'm not one for MUDs myself but this one is completly unique and addictive.
Favorite Characters: Death, Susan, All 'Dibblers', All Igors and Moist von Lipwig.
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LUGGAGE FTW!
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hmm, maybe all of you can help me out. I have only read a few of Pratchett's books, just "A hat full of sky" and "The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents" but I want to get started in on a series! there are so many discworld books i don't know where to start. Any suggestions?
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There are something like 35 now, plus some semirelated ones like what you've read.
I recommend starting at the beginning.
I'm reading Thud right now. Enjoying it muchly.
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Great books!
Who's played the MUD? http://discworld.atuin.net/external/java/newtelnet/java_client.shtml
That absorbed my life for hours on end during highschool.
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I like Sam Vimes a lot, but I disagree with some of his core wossnames sometimes.
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"Dojo! What is Rule One!"
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."
That has to be my favorite book.
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Lu Tze is a dude. After reading Thief of Time I kept thinking "Holy shit I wish he would write a Lu Tze/Vimes crossover book"
Then Nightwatch came out, and I think my sounds of joy were audible from next week.
I quite liked Monsterous Regiment. One thing I love about Pratchett is that he doesn't seem to be losing any momentum. To me, every book he writes is better than the last, because its all heaping more and more awesome onto the pile, and it was nice to get an entirely new set of characters to read about.
For instance, I thought Thud was great the way it took an existing concept that has been mentioned in passing as an important event in Discworld history, and fleshed it out into an entire book.
There's a scene in Thud that is quite possibly my favorite part of any discworld book ever. I won't mention what happens specifically in it, but I just have to quote part of it
The thing glared at them and asked: 'Where's.... my... cow?'
They backed away.
'Is that my cow?' the creature demanded, stepping forward unsteadily. It shook its head sadly.
"It goes, "baaaa!"' it wept. 'It is... a sheep...'
Then it fell to its knees, clenched its teeth and turned its face upwards, like a man tortured beyond his wits, and beseeching the gods of fortume and the tempest, screamed:
That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! Cow!!!!!"
Holy crap that bit sent shivers down my spine.
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You know, I don't think I've read Nightwatch. Damn I've gotta get to a library. Curse not having a card and needing a parent's goddamn consent to get one. wtf? A library for god's sake!
But yeah, Pratchett is the man with the literary skills. I was sure I'd mentioned this before in this thread but it looks like I haven't.
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Loved 'Thud'
I love the Troll's version of Bling Bling
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I've adored Pratchet's works for many years. I've always quite liked Rincewind, but it's been so long since he's starred in a book and who doesn't love the Ankh Morpork City Guard? This is the first I've heard about 'Thud', but I imagine my parents have a copy as they're the keepers of my family's Pratchett library.
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"What we need is a club."
"Got a club, got a nail in it."
"A night club!"
"Got a nail in it at night to."
Gold. I started uncontrolably giggiling in class.
I must read thud! I've read about 20 discworld books (may be a slight overestimate)
I was going to say Death is the best but that would degrade all his other brilliant characters.
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I have to add my name to the rabid-Pratchett-fan list. I've loved him for years. I've read or I own most of the books, with exceptions (which all seem to be clustered in the books he wrote with the witches ... they don't appeal to me as much). Oh, and ...
LUGGAGE FTW!
Abso-freakin-lutely.
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Monstrous regiment was as good, but I still enjoyed it.
Thud was excellent, but I always enjoy the Sam Vimes books.
One I haven't seen yet in any store I've been to in the US, but I managed to pick up a copy in London is "Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" It's actually one of my favorites.
The only ones I stopped reading where the lancre ones. Some of them look good, but I just couldn't get interested in Lords and Ladies. Stopped trying after that.
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I love his writing, it has just the right amount of random awesomeness and fantasty to be perfect. My favorite book by far has to be Mort. Death is just such an awesome character.
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If Prachett were a cookie, I would eat nothing but Prachett-cookies all day long, until I lapsed into severe malnutrition and eventually died of scurvy.
And I contest that "The Truth" was as good as any of the Watch books, so there!
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I believe the Truth has been made into a stage play. Sadly no one near enough for me to see it has done a production of it.
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I've been a big fan of pratchett ever since my dad introduced me to him (I have a pretty cool father).
I'm quite looking forward to reading Thud. It's got Vimes, which is a good thing, to my mind. Sadly, I won't be able to read it until after christmas, when we have to traditional "New Discworld Book Gift Exchange". Good times for all.
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"Dojo! What is Rule One!"
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."
That has to be my favorite book.
Hah, that's one of my favourites too. I think my absolute favourite is Lords And Ladies, the Midsummer Night's Dream parody. I love that idea of elfs. To quote a different book- "Elfs? Making toys? Ha, give an elf a chisel and he'll carve his name into your forehead." It's good, because now that it's Christmas time I get to use that around my young relatives.
I started reading his books when I was pretty young, eleven or twelve maybe, I think they warped my developing mind! Each one contains some sort of outlandish idea, often a parody of modern science or religion or something like that. It really teaches you to expand your mind so that you can accept strange ideas and really enjoy the storylines.
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I have obsessed over Pratchett for years.
I own the Nanny Oggs Cookbook, the Roleplaying game, the Almanack, the graphic novel of Guards, Guards (though I still need the Last Hero) and all the novels in Paper back (and all the Kids books in hardcover.)
I seriously love this mans writing. His grasp of human nature and ability to make us realize how silly we are is perfect.
Plus Vimes prods much backside.
And Granny Watherwax, the Witches and the Night Watch books are tied for me.
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Yeah, it's great how well he does outright cunning motherfuckers, isn't it? I just LOVE Granny Weatherwax and The Patrician. They're just unbeatable, definately in my top-ten fictional characters of all time.
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I fully expect to see the Patrician getting fleshed out more and more.
This pleases me, he's grown into one of the cooler characters ove the books, and now is actually genuinely interesting.
I am also enjoying how essentially the Discworld is undergoing an industrial and social revolution..
Pratchetts writing, and world continue to evolve in brilliant ways.
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I love Pratchett, I think he is an incredible writer and always makes me laugh. I read Thud! not long ago - it was so good :D but I like the older ones better (Mort is my favourite). I have to say I can't get into the newer books as much as I did the older ones. I reckon the best character is Death, he's awesome, but I can't stand the witches.
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Yeah I needs to go buy Thud!, Where's my Cow? and the Thud! board game.
I still can't believe anyone can dislike the Witches...Weatherwax and Ogg make such a delightfully perfect duo of destruction and mayhem
I also got to get my Science of Discworld books back from my friends.
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Yeah, I pretty much read them as my library gets them, I'm not hardcore enough to buy them.
Still, I love certain characters. The Watch/Vimes books are probably my favorite, but monsterous regiment was pretty good too.
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Holy shit.
Holy fucking SHIT (http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060110b.php)
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Pratchett's style is not really suitable for filming. And that's a good thing.
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I think WFM would translate pretty well to a kids movie... I just hope they get actual Scots to do the voicings. And they don't use too much cgi. And everyone has British accents.
Does anyone else get that vibe from discworld? Everyone is British... even some of the foreigners. Just me?
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Death of Rats is easily my favourite.
"SQUEAK"
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as i said somewhere else, Small gods would make a good movie, but not a lot of the books would translate that well
edit: and i want more assassin's guild books damnit
pyramids is one of my favourites
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loved every book, i think they're getting better and better.
started with the johnny books, translated in dutch, then picked up the discworld ones, when i got older i started collecting them in english.
my boyfriend loves them too, so we hava a double collection!
when i want to read, but i don't know what to choose, i always can fall back on my DW collection. there must be some books i have read more than 10 times!
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I love them all. Rincewind is actually my least favorite because he always seems the same. I like characters who change.
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I've only read about ten of his books (only...) but they've all been great. Just finished Hogfather. SQUEAK.
My favorite characters have to be Death, the Silver Horde, the Patrician, and the Luggage.
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The patrician is SUCH a badass.
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I love them all. Rincewind is actually my least favorite because he always seems the same. I like characters who change.
Personally, thats my favorite thing about Rincewind. He is like a shark, he has the perfect survival instinct: RUN LIKE HELL and he is damn good at it.
Still, I think the fact that he isn't as heavily used as he was early on in the series is a good thing, considering this.
The patrician is SUCH a badass.
Word, holmes.
I love the artwork of him in the Nanny Oggs cookbook, where its just him steepling his fingers, looking devious, and his recipe is just bread and water.
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Something Pratchett did together with Neill Gaiman might be the funniest book ever written: Good Omens.
I highly recommend this to everyone wih a pulse, basically.
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mmmm, the greatness that is pratchett
Vimes is possibly my favorite character in any book, ever, but I like the fifth elephant and Jingo way better than the night watch
who else can arrest an entire army?
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I've read almost all his books. Now I'm going to read them all again because I've seen this thread. Thanks a lot.
I can't really have a favourite chatacter because Pratchett's too good a writer to make me like any of his characters less than the others. His books are so full of life.
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I've been a Discworld fan long enough to see Equal Rites in paperback and think "Cool, a new Discworld novel!" - nice to see so many of you like the OFiaH [1] too.
Some of my favourite quotes:
"It was you what done it, wasn't it?"
"We buried [Mr Ogg] twenty years ago. Well, we had to. He was dead."
"We all know it was you what done it, own up."
Get the fpoone oute of thee jar, three tries for a penny
"Are you sure it wasn't you what done it?"
"TO SERVE THE PUBLIC TRUST, PROTECT THE INNOCENT AND SERIOUSLY PROD BUTTOCK"
"Alright, alright, I did it! Now please tell me what it was that I did!"
UPCOMING RELEASES, TO MAKE YOUR COLLECTIVE WILLY HARD:
May 2006 (estimated) - Wintersmith, the third Tiffany Aching novel. (A fourth novel in the series may or may not be written; if it is, the title will be When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Midnight.)
November 2006 - Making Money, the sequel to Going Postal.
December 2006 - a two-part TV adaptation of Hogfather, with Ian Richardson voicing Death and David Jason playing Albert. Airing on the BBC and coming soon after to a "third way" outlet near you.
[1] Old Fart in a Hat
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Now that I think about it I haven't actually read all that many. I read Equal Rites in school, the only decent book in the library. And I used to own second hand copies of a few and got rid of them (Stupid of me, can't remember why I did it though). I read through The Colour of Magic third or fourth time round a while back and I'm going to buy The Light Fantastic (second time round) on the way home from college on the morrow if Smiths has it (they didn't the last time I looked ). Then, when I finish The Fellowship of the Ring it'll be pratchett again.
I've read Interesting Times and Carpe Juggulum (which was by far my favourite) as well, and I may have read Mort too.
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just got given the 'guards guards' graphic novel for my birthday, its sorta cool seeing all the characters but i think whoever it is that illustrates the paperbacks should have drawn it for the sake of consistency and the darker tone of their drawings. Great news about the new animation, i used to have the 'Soul Music' animated film on a vhs taped off the telly but some swine taped over it (probably my mum recording the bloody ice skating or something equally as crappy) I think there was another one that got animated but for the life of me i can't remember which one, can anyone help? Thud! was pretty damn good, not one of his best but consistent and enjoyable just as all the Captain/Commander/Duke vimes books. Its my favourite character set by far but i do wish that pratchett would finish them off.
As a bit of fun, anyone wanna predict whats gonna happen with those guys in the end? Here are my good/evil endings for the watch...
*SPOILER WARNING*
THESE PREDICTIONS ARE BASED ON EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE DISCWORLD SERIES, ANYONE WHO HASN'T AT LEAST REACHED 'THE FIFTH ELEPHANT' IN THE CITY WATCH SERIES SHOULDN'T READ ON.
Unhappy Ending: Carrot is going attempts to take the throne of Ankh and Vimes is gonna have to put him down, the patrician'll die at some point and Vimes ends up as patrician. Nobby and Sgt Colon will survive, probably by ducking into a doorway and having a cig when it all goes down. Angua will die by Carrots side, Vimes's son will take command of the watch.
Happy Ending 1: Carrot takes the throne with Vimes as commander of the watch and duke of ankh. Angua becomes queen and they have little werewolf babies. Nobby and Colon stay in the watch to train the next generation and guide Vimes' son through the ranks. Possibly Vimes retires and leaves the watch to his son.
Happy Ending 2: Vetinari dies of natural causes/assasination, Vimes gets elected as the next patrician, Carrot takes the watch as Commander with Angua as captain. Supporting characters receive various promotions, a couple of deaths here and there.
Basically he's got to kill off a couple of characters, the last watchman i remember dying was corporal cuddy in men at arms (or was it feet of clay?)
Given that Carrot or Vimes are gonna end up ruling ankh morpork, i'm tempted towards carrot because of vimes's distaste for power and politics. Detritus might get killed, same goes for angua, when she was thought dead it was gut-wrenching so i think she's got the most emotional significance. Sybil, sam jr, nobby, colon, cheri etc aren't really suitable for the chop, cheri doesn't have much significance, colon and nobby are perennial survivors (although nobby dying whilst doing the first honourable act of his life would be interesting), sam jr is needed for the inevitable 'discworld the next generation' and Vimes would never let anything happen to Sybil. That was a huge post and shows what a discworld nerd i am, are there any angles that i missed guys?
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I seriously need to get back to playing the MUD.
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Jedit, you have just made my goddamned day with your news. I liked Lipvig more than I liked any other character in their first appearance, except for Granny Weatherwax, so I'd be real interested to see where they go with him.
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RELEASE UPDATE:
August 2006: The 2007 Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook
October 2006: Wintersmith
November 2006: The Illustrated Hogfather Screenplay
Making Money appears to have been bumped.
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Update to the update: the official UK release date for Wintersmith has been confirmed as September 28th. Cover art, blurb and a few photos from the Hogfather shoot here: http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html
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Favorite Characters:
Granny Weatherwax
Vimes(and Sybel, oh god Sybel is so awesome)
Patrician
Death(and Death of Rats as well as his sweet daughter)
The appearances of these characters determines how much I like a book.