Rediscovered Pratchetts

Nice! Can't wait to snag that.

I’m a huge Pratchett fan. Couldn’t bring myself to finish The Shepherd’s Crown because once I had that would be it, no more Pratchett, no more Discworld. I’ll look forward to these and maybe it’ll help me finish the last Discworld novel!

Looking forward to it.
Am still not over the fact we won't ever see another discworld to be honest

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I’m a huge Pratchett fan. Couldn’t bring myself to finish The Shepherd’s Crown because once I had that would be it, no more Pratchett, no more Discworld. I’ll look forward to these and maybe it’ll help me finish the last Discworld novel!

I started over at the start and realised I was going slower and slower as I got through them for exactly this reason. I still have a couple unread but they've got to last a long time...

I too stopped reading them to save some for later life. The discworld was such a massive part of my awkward teenage years.

To all those who haven't finished them, get on with it... for tomorrow you may die... otherwise you'll feel pretty silly when you meet him up there!

It got very dusty in here when I found my dad's bookmark two thirds of the way through the last book he was reading - Fallen Angels, the latest at the time from Larry Niven. One of the very, very few books me bought in hardback, as he knew he probably didn't have time to wait for the paperback to come out. He was too right.

I'm also still a bit annoyed with Iain (M) Banks for dying long before he ran out of stories.

Couldn’t bring myself to finish The Shepherd’s Crown because once I had that would be it, no more Pratchett, no more Discworld.

I have a special hardcover copy in a slipcase with a glittery finish - it’s never been opened, let alone read. I just can’t bring myself to read it. The Tiffany Aching books are my favourites of all of Sir Terry’s books, of which I have all of the Discworld books, the first three in original paperbacks, signed by Sir Terry, and most of the rest as signed and personalised hardcovers.
I also have a first edition hardcover of Good Omens, signed by Neil and Sir Terry - when I handed it to Neil at a signing at Waterstones in Bristol, he burst out laughing when he saw what Terry had written; ‘Neil made me do it!’

I read about these new stories earlier today, and I’ll be putting an order in for a copy, because I remember reading some of the stories many years ago in the WDP, where he got a start writing fantasy after finishing as a publicity officer for the nuclear power industry, he said it gave him a good start in writing fantasy literature…

To all those who haven’t finished them, get on with it… for tomorrow you may die…

That's where I am. Still have to read Shepherds Crown but I'm going to do it sooner rather than later. Might just do the series in one go.

Also missing M Banks' work...

I am excited by this.

I have just realised that I have read almost all the Discworld novels - I stopped with Unseen Academicals in 2009.
I'd stopped reading his work around this time as I thought the language had simplified and lost some of its magic. That said with some of the earlier books you had the impression he'd got bored half way through (Small Gods, and the one with the mathematical camel).

Stumbled across Discworld in 1990ish - when John Smiths in Glasgow had paperback copies of Wyrd Sisters stacked to the ceiling. Bought a copy and was hooked as was everyone I lent it too.

I've been re-reading them for a while now.

Currently back round to Carpe Jugulum.
I am wary that I'm getting towards the end of them now & am slowing down a bit.

As a latecomer to Pratchett’s work I have read every book in the Discworld in rotation several times with the exception of The Shepherds Crown which I only discovered recently. It didn’t fascinate me like the vast majority of his work and I’m not sure I’ll bother reading it again any time soon.
Hopefully, the short stories are better.

The Life in Footnotes is well worth a read / listen - really enjoyable, some great stories in there.

I’d stopped reading his work around this time as I thought the language had simplified and lost some of its magic. That said with some of the earlier books you had the impression he’d got bored half way through (Small Gods, and the one with the mathematical camel).

I got the same feeling with the last few books - I used to eagerly await each new book, but by the time it got to the one about the football team (IIRC) they felt formulaic, and I sort of gave up. Hopefully the newer short stories will be a bit fresher.

Edit: by "newer" I obviously mean "loads older" 🙂

I thought his later books with the "industrial revolution" theme were quite good, but the goblins/racism story threads were too heavy handed, simplistic and rather patronising.