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Originally posted by m0rpheus
I love about half the Discworld stuff, I'm not a big fan of the stuff with Granny Weatherwax or Nanny Ogg tho. I just cant seem to get into them
Anything with Rincewind or the City Watch I'm all over. Plus the Librarian rules! Can you name any other series you can say that in?
So in closing "Oook".
BTW: If you like Discworld check out Good Omens by Terry Prachet and Neil Gaiman, it's great stuff.
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So far, all but one I've read had to do with with City Watch characters: "The Truth" was the first I read, and although it's not about them primarily, they're all over it. I enjoyed reading about the invention of newspapers and yellow journalism; kind of like an old Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movie, but with dwarfs and talking dogs.
My favorite so far is "Guards! Guards!," which is the first in the City Watch series and which was apparently written as an homage to all the anonymous palace guards and city guards who generally get slaughtered by barbarian heroes in sword-and-sorcery books. Lovely stuff.
I particularly enjoy the character of Lord Vetinari. One would like to believe that a person who knows himself, and others, that well, actually exists.