okay, I'm succumbing

Some of the concepts appear in DSoTS though- the artificial fossils and relaid coal fields for instance. The Bank speaks in BLOCK CAPITALS Death style. The seeds are there.
I don't believe either book was successfully published though until after the Discworld novels had become a hit.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Some of the concepts appear in DSoTS though- the artificial fossils and relaid coal fields for instance. The Bank speaks in BLOCK CAPITALS Death style. The seeds are there.
I don't believe either book was successfully published though until after the Discworld novels had become a hit.
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I only picked up the Colour of Magic because I'd already read Strata - my first copy was the original UK paperback, probably still got it squirreled in the attic somewhere. I wouldn't have picked up COM if I hadn't read Strata because I'd have dismissed it as just another so-called humorous fantasy book.
 
The books about Johnny are good too, like this passage from <i>Only you can save mankind</i>. I would have done something like this if I'd thought of it first:
Wobbler had written an actual computer game like this once. It was called Journey to Alpha Centauri. It was a screen with some dots on it. Because, he said, it happened in real time, which no-one had ever heard of until computers. He'd seen on TV that it took three thousand years to get to Alpha Centauri. He had written it so that if anyone kept their computer on for three thousand years, they'd be rewarded by a little dot appearing in the middle of the screen, and then a message saying. 'Welcome to Alpha Centauri. Now go home.'
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Darat said:
I only picked up the Colour of Magic because I'd already read Strata - my first copy was the original UK paperback, probably still got it squirreled in the attic somewhere. I wouldn't have picked up COM if I hadn't read Strata because I'd have dismissed it as just another so-called humorous fantasy book.
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I hadn't read any other humorous fantasy books before Discworld. I loved it, so I therefore stupidly assumed this must a genre in which there were several other authors producing great stuff.

So I read some other authors purporting to be in a similar vein, some even had similar Josh Kirby style covers.

Dear God was I wrong.
 
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LibraryLady said:
May I say that the three of you have disappointed me? Now go to your rooms, and no dessert for you!

I'm about 80 pages into the Color of Magic. Its interesting, but I'm not really hooked. I'll keep on with this and other books and see what happens after reading three.
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When I started reading the Disc World, after reading the Bromeliad trilogy on the recommendation of children in my class, I found them not funny, but after reading straight through the first five or six Disc World books, I was a dedicated fan. As I caught up with all the paperbacks, I could not wait for the paperbacks to come out and have bought hardbakcs ever since!:)

And then of course there was theCohen the Barbarian illustrated 'special' - another good one.
 
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Patsy said:
I'd skip straight to Guards, Guards or Mort.
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I agree with the consensus on these recommendations.

I first stumbled across Jingo at the public library, and have since read and re-read all of the Discworld novels (and most of the other stuff Pratchett has written).

My favorite is invariably the one I've most recently read.

They stand alone just fine, but there's a lot more to appreciate when the Discworld universe gets fleshed out a bit more.
 
Third Eye Open said:
Are you sure you're not thinking of Piers Anthony?
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No, he didn't mention unsavoury politics, and a really creepy attitude to underage girls...

EDIT:

The Demon Crowley in Good Omens is definitely a yuppie in Thatcher's Britain.

Thre is also a pretty good parody of the Smiley books in it.
 
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To speak of succumbing... I picked up Good Omens in the book store this morning.
 
Just wondering if there is any update, am I doomed to be the only non fanboy/girl of disc world on this board, or has Library Lady found them unreadable and daren't admit it?
 
Guybrush Threepwood said:
Just wondering if there is any update, am I doomed to be the only non fanboy/girl of disc world on this board, or has Library Lady found them unreadable and daren't admit it?
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Ha! I was just wondering the same thing myself, although since LL is intelligent, sensitive and perceptive I don't believe your hypothesis is the correct one. :p
 
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