An open letter to whomever recommended "The Hogfather" {US}

[bbusybookworm]

Originally Posted by tirsales

I wouldnt recommend starting with the Rincewind cycle ("Colors of Magic" and "Light fantastic" are good. Just not for all starters )
Dont get me wrong: They are fantastic. I just found some people to better like him if they started with his later works. (And later read (and like) his earlier ones).

I agree, that why I usually recommend starting somewhere else. Once you read a few of the other books, then go back and read the Earlier ones.

[RickyMaveety]

Sorry, but I'm a third of the way through The Colors of Magic and so far I love it.

The book (in style) reminds me of Douglas Adams. Once you understand that the impossible is simply bound to happen, then you just sit back and enjoy.

The only problem I'm having is with some of the English terms (but that's why I love having a good dictionary built right into my book). The word "rota" was a new one on me.

And now that I've had the character of Death fully explained to me (as in his face having an immovable rictus of a smile, I understand why it wasn't really necessary to have Death's jaws moving in the Hogfather movie.

Worry not ... I am having a great time, and expect to have an even better one as the series progresses.

[tINmOUSE]

the 'Johnny' series is not disc-world related.

And I think Johnny and the Bomb is the 3rd in the series at that.
(its part of his younger-reader series - still readable. I read it but that may not be much a measuring stick)

Only You Can Save Mankind (1st)
Johnny and the Dead (2nd)
Johnny and the Bomb (3rd)

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by tINmOUSE

the 'Johnny' series is not disc-world related.

And I think Johnny and the Bomb is the 3rd in the series at that.
(its part of his younger-reader series - still readable. I read it but that may not be much a measuring stick)

Only You Can Save Mankind (1st)
Johnny and the Dead (2nd)
Johnny and the Bomb (3rd)

Eh .... already bought them, but I'm into children's literature anyway. Heck, I recently read Tom Kitten again. Enjoyed every bit of it.

[tINmOUSE]

I like his other non disc-world books like 'strata' as well.

Where in one scene in the book planet builder operator's get told off for including a dinosaur (in the strata layers) holding a placard stating 'end nuclear testing now'.

And don't miss out on his 'The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents' which is set in disc world. I think that last disc-world book I read was 'Making Money'.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by tINmOUSE

I like his other non disc-world books like 'strata' as well.

Where in one scene in the book planet builder operator's get told off for including a dinosaur (in the strata layers) holding a placard stating 'end nuclear testing now'.

And don't miss out on his 'The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents' which is set in disc world. I think that last disc-world book I read was 'Making Money'.

I am going to have such a good time over the next few months ....

[Over]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I'm ashamed to say that I never heard of Terry Pratchett before watching the movie "The Hogfather" which was recommended to me as a good movie.

It was great. Just plain old great.

So, today, I hied my butt over to the Amazon Kindle store, and they have all 37 of his books in Kindle format. So ... I'm going to have myself a little shopping spree and buy them all.

Then, I'm going to spend the next few months immersed in DiscWorld .....



I don't think I've been this happy since the day I discovered Larry Niven.

I'm also very curious about Pratchett's works. My first ebook purchase was "The Stand", by Stephen King, and "The Colour of Magic", first Discworld book, by Terry Pratchett. I can't wait to start reading it. And you made me ven more anxious to try it!

[DixieGal]

There are some hilarious short stories also, but I can't find a bibliography to post. It seems like there is a Pratchett story in every other "Best of Year" anthology.

[alia]

I wasn't crazy about The Hogfather movie (not that it stopped me from watching it 3 times) but I adore Terry Pratchett. I recommend either Guards! Guards! or Monstrous Regiment for your first (just because those were the first two I read, and they sparked an obsession for all things Pratchett in me.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by bbusybookworm

I agree, that why I usually recommend starting somewhere else. Once you read a few of the other books, then go back and read the Earlier ones.

Oh, and thanks for the graphic guide. Even if I don't read them through that way on the first go round, I may on the second. I am quite certain that these are books that will demand a second or third reading.

And .... just checked, it was YOU that made the original recommendation re the film version.

So ....

[pshrynk]

And it should be whomever, btw.

I know, I know, but it's been bugging me all morning!

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

And it should be whomever, btw.

I know, I know, but it's been bugging me all morning!

My spelling is godawful and my grammar isn't much better. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I will try not to make the same mistake again ... not promising anything, I probably WILL make the same mistake again, and sadly, quite soon.

But, that's why I have friends like you, to point these things out to me, in public, when there is no freaking way I can go back and correct the error, leaving me humiliated in front of the world forever.

Man .... you so owe me some karma.

[zelda_pinwheel]

if you ask nicely, a mod can fix the title for you.

you know, to avoid further humiliation.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

if you ask nicely, a mod can fix the title for you.

you know, to avoid further humiliation.

No no no ..... I won't beg (whimper), I'll just take my grammatic lumps (whine) and try to work on my English skills (sob) which are spectacularly awful, I know that (sniff sniff).

I must go find my hairshirt and crown of thorns now.

(Wanders off mumbling "whomever, WHOMever, whomEVER, whoooMever ...")

[pshrynk]

I get the feeling that I should be feeling bad about now...