Found these in Strand Bookstore in New York. Love the covers to add to the collection!

I'd like to put this in terms of how engaging they are, but if you just hate someone, then that's fine too. or me, it's gotta be Haddock. Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you a thing about him, yet he's relevant in multiple books somehow. I didn't even realize he was in Thud until I read that passage 10 minutes ago.

I was listening to Witches Abroad in one app alternating with Little House in the Big Woods in another. My phone can't handle it.

Hello,

Quite a few years back I remember there being a website (it might have looked like some kind of wiki) that listed all the Discworld books in a table and next to the name and cover of the book it had a short text listing the themes covered in the book (for ex. Going Postal had something like "postal system, industrialization..." etc.) I've tried finding this website recently but it looks like it doesn't exist anymore.

Does anyone here know of the website or something similar to it?

Thank you in advance.

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They sound the same to me!

Are there any hints for the Duck Man’s backstory? In the absence of any concrete information any creative headcanon?

And realize that the Nac Mac Fegals are wild Scottish Smurfs ,I mean only 1 female per clan, 6" tall, live in a loosely ruled society, blue (maybe the Smurfs acquired their color from generations of blue tattoos), love an adventure and a few other similarities, what say you guys

I recently sold my complete Discworld collection as my OCD was too annoyed with having so many different spine styles and inconsistencies on my shelf. I'm rebuying the complete collection with the recent new covers, figuring they would be consistent across the range. They are, mostly, but looking at Equal Rites and Mort they look like they were cut in the wrong place.

Equal Rites has been cut too much at the top, so less is off the bottom, making Terry's name and the Penguin logo 5 or 6mm higher up, and Mort is the opposite. So while the style of spine is now consistent, the alignment isn't, which is still annoying me!

Are other people's Equal Rites and Mort the same? Or have I just got copies from a badly cut batch?

Not a smack on anyone's preferences at all. I just feel like I see more posts about people listening to the books than reading them. And I've yet to feel drawn to that as an alternative to my own mind-theatre.

Is this a symptom of the times? This readership? The dulcet tones of our collection of narrators?

EDIT: Thanks for the input, everyone. It's interesting to see the perspectives. I tend to avoid podcasts and audiobooks in general (even music) because I only really relax in silence.

I've been looking for a passage I once read in one of his books, and I'm almost sure Rincewind was in it. It's something along the line of there being four(?) motivating factors in the world. I remember it because one of them was 'sheer contrariness' and my younger self found it hilarious. Now that I'm a bit older, I still find it hilarious, but also very troubling. Anyways, I was hoping maybe someone here could remember which book it was from specifically... I've done my best googling and came up with nothing.

English is my third language; however, I've been living in an English-speaking country for 16 years now. I consume all media in English and speak and communicate in English at my job. I don't have to translate English in my mind to my native language (those who have learnt more than one language as adults will understand what I mean).

When I was a teenager, I enjoyed reading humorous fantasy books in my native language. Recently I decided to pick up reading books again, and after consulting Google, Terry Pratchett's novels were the top recommendation for me.

I've started reading The Colour of Magic, and I'm so lost? Like, I kind of understand what's happening, but it's a bit hard? I catch some humour but not all of it. Also, it feels like the main characters are in one place and then suddenly in another? What is happening?

My question is, should I try another book, or are these series not for me?

No worries, it's from a game. Still, spinal replacement seems tricky.

I have only read a couple of his books so far but the way he writes, his hilarious and intelligent approach to life and language honestly brings me so much joy!

I find myself smiling at his phrases and word play more than any book I've ever read before.

Are there any terms for the techniques he uses or is it just pure Pratchett-ism? It's like a mixture of word play, emotive language, sense mixing, and I want more!!!

Are there any other writers who evoke Pratchett for you?

Thanks!!

EDIT: Spelling lol

Okay, it’s a fancy chicken. Photo courtesy Stephanie Millinger

I know this is a long shot, but do any of you know if there is a hex code for octarine? I am doing a Discworld theme for my bujo for April and was really hoping that a little magic had seeped into Roundworld that would let this be a thing.

Barring that, what colors would you suggest I use?

I’m missing a joke or something here