Terry Pratchet

Has anyone read his other series? Besides truckers ect. and discworld?

which series to do you speak of?
there are only:
The Bromeliad <--Truckers, Diggers, Wings
The Johnny MAxwell Series
and the Wee Free Men books (2).

Other wise its just Discworld and one or two books which are similar but not set on discworld.

The Johny maxwell series. How is that? What other ones are not on discworld. oh and the wee free men does not downright say it, but it is on discworld. Overlaping characters.

The book Thud! just came out! I am soooooo reading it and getting it for christmas.

I just read the first 12 pages of 'Men At Arms' of the Discworld Series and felt that he is one of the most capable humorous authors of all time. I feel he's a grossly underrated author because no one except my brother knows about Terry Pratchett in my family.

We all know who he is in my family, my parents don't like him because his Discworld books have 'disgusting drawings'.

Indeed, the drawings on the cover are very misleadingly horrid and not at all funny.

I really like some of them and have brought most of the Discworld series.

I love Terry Pratchett, I think his Discworld novels are well written and very humourous. They can get confusing if you've only just started reading them because even though they dont have a chronical order they can follow on from one another and overlap the characters and sometimes that takes some time to get into.

I think Truckers, Diggers and Wings are amazing books. Def my favourite from Pratchett.

Jojo wrote:I feel he's a grossly underrated author because no one except my brother knows about Terry Pratchett in my family.

Underated ? All of his latest books have reached number one bestseller, and his is the number two bestselling Brit (just behind Rowling, although he still holds of being the most shoplifted author ). He has also been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature ("I suspect the 'services to literature' consisted of refraining from trying to write any.").

Im with Firestarter, I just could not get into Going Postal from discworld books ar all. And they arnt that funny

Has anyone read Monstrous Regiment or Night Watch? They're my favourites, I think. If you don't count the Bromeliad Triliogy. When I first read them they were the best things I had ever read.

Amusingly enough, Going Postal is likely my favourite of his books, although I like all the little quirky "one-shotters" he does, I'm unsure whether I only take to those books because I've long been indoctrinated into the Discworld er... World, and therefore enjoy the weirdness and change of perspectives, yet still being within the world.

Thief of Time as well, another great book with characters created solely for it, yet within the Discworld continuum.

EDIT: Ah yers, Binky comes from Discworld, Binky being Death's horse.

I just read "Men at Arms" (thanks to Jojo)
i think it was awesomely amusing-what a grand writing style. i love Pratchett's humour and i want to read more

Totally with you, Sohini. Terry Pratchett rocks!!! But I'm not qute as...defensive of him as certain other authors here. He's a great writer, and if people don't agree with that, well then, they're the ones missing out on some great material. He's a big boy, he can take care of himself.
The first book I read in the Discworld was Going Postal. Actually, my family and I listened to it on one of our absurdly-long car trips. At the time, we didn't really know what we were in for. It started off...normally enough, and then, out of nowhere: Mr. Pump! And yeah, the rest is history. I really love his stuff, though I don't read the Witches books or most of the earlier ones with Rincewind (though I do love the luggage). My favorites of his are the Watch books (most notably Night Watch and The Fifth Elephant) and the Death books (Soul Music and Hogfather are fantastic!).
So, yeah, there you have it.