[billbirchall]

My contribution to this thread, is to totally endorse the reading of Terry Pratchett. I was introduced to his books by a relative who has a shop that sells everything Discworld. He supplied me with a number of books and that set me off. I have read 7 on the trot and have just purchased Making Money.The irony is that Pratchett started out as a journalist on our local newspaper and I only found out, when I read his first book.

Any author that can make me laugh out loud,has to be recommended. The beauty of Terry Pratchett books is that you do not have to read them sequentially. My favourite so far, is Night Watch. I do not agree with the person who said that his first books: Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, were not up to the standards of his later books. I thought that they were brilliant and extremely inventive and funny. Incidentally, these two books were made into a TV movie in the UK, and it was a pretty good attempt, to interpret his books.