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The Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic were both made into a television film by Sky, shown a couple of years ago. The film was pretty true to the books, though it missed a number of the "side remarks". However, it is a good indication of Pratchett's humour.
More recently, "Going Postal" also followed the television film route.
If you can get hold of the audiobooks, mostly narrated by Nigel Planer (ex-Young Ones), they are well worth the effort.
Like many, it seems, I also struggle with the written versions, having the whole series in ebooks and half of them in tree books. I think that too much attention is given to people's names and place names and trying to piece everything together, rather than just letting go and going with the flow.
Obviously, looking at Terry Pratchett's sales figures, he must be getting it right. I know there is the argument that "one hundred million flies can't be wrong - eat more sh*t", but I am certainly going to keep trying (reading, that is, not eating.....!)
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