I am planning to read every Terry Pratchett Discworld book and I want to know which one are you favorite's and what did you think of his final book The Shepherd's Crown
What is your favorite Discworld book of his. Also what are your thoughts on his last book The Shepherd's Crown
Haven't read Shepherd's Crown yet, it's sitting on my bookshelf glaring at me. Problem is once I read it there won't be any new Terry books for me to read ever again.
Oh, my favorite is Monstrous Regiment but also ALL OF THEM.
Been a while since I read any Pratchett.
What's the one with Death and how he pretends to be a farmer for a while as he loses his status or something?
That one. (I really would like to know the name, a reread of that one would be nice).
Well, I think that you can't get better than the City Watch/Vimes books. They are just so much better than anything in the series. Feet of Clay, Jingo and Night Watch being my personal highlights. The only downside to these books would be Snuff, which as unfortunate as it is to say, you can really tell just little of Terry Pratchett was left when we was writing that. I think he said that he was using voice to text because he couldn't write anymore, and it really shows. Awful book, very simple language, barely hamstrung together plot with no flow. It's a real shame.
Other fantastic books? Monstrous Regiment is definitely in my Top 10, and that's a stand alone book, with a few minor scenes that include Vimes and his team. I would say Going Postal/Making Money are up there too.
@adequatelyprepared: That would be Reaper Man, the second Death book and eleventh Discworld book, also a little bit of the plot is used in the second Discworld point and click game.
Making Money is definitely one of my all-time favourites, even outside of Sir Terry's work. A state-sponsored conman in charge of the bank and royal mint? How could things go wrong!? Thief of Time I also really enjoyed. I haven't gotten around to The Shepherd's Crown yet, though.
Men at Arms, Night Watch, Going Postal, Maskerade and Reaper Man are my favorites. I think most of the books are good.
Haven't read The Shepherd's crown yet. Read Raising Steam this summer and was kinda bummed out about it. Part of that is because he's dead and was sick when he wrote it, dictating the book to an assistant, so when 90% of it is one character making a monologue at someone else I can't help imagining it. But it was also a really serious book, with the largest amount of on-camera murdering I can recall in that series. That's a sad note to end on.
Hogfather holds a special place in my heart as the first Discworld book I read. Technically it's part of the Death/Susan Sto Helit series but it stands on its own brilliantly. Other books I that stood out to me were Going Postal, Witches Abroad, The Truth and the Watch series (all of them are great IMO). I haven't read any of the Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men books, but I have yet to read a Discworld book that I haven't enjoyed enough to reread a number of times.
Also while not a Discworld book, Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman is a brilliant read.
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