Posted 22 October 2005 - 02:50 PM
| QUOTE (oolongcha @ Oct 22 2005, 01:43 PM) |
I think this series of books needs to be confronted head on - if only for somewhere for HQ to post his random pro-Pratchett comments rather than leave them cluttering up the forum 
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Cluttering up the forum! Cluttering up the forum!!. The man is a genius and I'm proud to display his works.
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| So, who likes these books? |
Having spent not a little time on a forum dedicated to his scribblings, I can honestly say he fan base cuts across all levels/peoples. There seems to be no single 'type' of person that reads his stuff.
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| What ones have people read? |
I've read nearly all of them.
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| Favourite character(s)? |
Personal favorites of mine are the wizards and the librarian. Their constant sniping at each other never fails to amuse.
And the Patrician...so freaking dry
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| What makes them good? |
The books or the characters in the books?
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| Are there any of the books that aren't very good at all? Why not? |
That's really a matter of personal taste. I don't like his 'kids' books, they are too complicated for children and not interesting enough for adults. As regards his discworld stories...Some that I have read I didn't like at first, yet after a second reading have become firm favorites. Of those I don't like the most are..
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
Monstrous Regiment.
Wee Free men
A Hatful of Sky
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| One for HQ - how many has Pratchett written now...? I've lost count! |
I've got his latest offering in front of me now so I shall count them from the flyleaf...and the count is (without screenplays) is sixty five books. (of varying types).
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| I think I've read most of the first 15, but couldn't keep up (I'll check that). The only thing I will say is that I read my first one before Pratchett was famous: I think it was Equal Rites, at a time when the number of Discworld novels was in single figures. Just. |
My first was "Guards Guards", then "Pyramids". Then everything I could find as fast as I could buy them.
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| Death is one of my favourite characters, but so are the Guards - but, as I say, I've not read any of the more recent ones. |
Death is cool...but so is his daughter.
Cluttering up the forum!! I'll start singing the hedgehog song if you are not careful. In fact I'll sing it anyway
Ahem...cough cough. Ladies and gentelmen. I give you the hedgehog song. Sung in the key of G, with an orchestra of 30 kazoos.
Old Noah was mucking the Ark out one day
when he heard a great shriek from the neighboring stall.
Said he to poor Ham, who was hugging his loins,
"Ah, the hedgehog, my boy, can't be buggered at all."
Chorus (repeat after each verse)
Roll them all over and turn them around,
The hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The sheep is a classic, as well you may find,
the llama's all right if he isn't too tall,
the donkey's a danger for standing behind,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
You may pounce on the cat as he walks on his lone,
the mole has a hole into which you can crawl,
you must blindfold the basilisk or turn into stone,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The sow is a darling, so slick and so tight,
to cuddle and kiss as you lie next the wall,
but she don't chew the cud, so you'd better not bite,
and the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The squirrel requires the climbing of trees,
which puts you at risk of a slip and a fall.
The dog's man's best friend if you don't mind the fleas,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
You can do it with a frog in a puddle or pool,
though you might catch a cold in your whatchamacall-
it, or with a giraffe if you stand on a stool,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The rhino is often... reluctant... to flirt;
the termite's a challenge because he's so small
you might wash him away with your very first squirt;
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The bonobo monkey is willing to hump:
he'll do all his friends, both the large and the small,
and he'll do it to you if you show him your rump,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The humans are out, if you value your life:
it's incest, my son, since we're relatives all...
unless you'd make love to your very own wife!
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
I don't recommend that you tackle the skunk.
I did once myself, I'm ashamed to recall;
I must have been EXtr'ordinARily drunk!
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The kangaroo's pocket can carry your tool
though her kick may propel you clean over the wall.
The platypus lurks in the muck of his pool
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The camel is likely to spit in your face,
but don't take it bad, for it ain't personAL:
he simply detests the entire human race,
and the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
As a friend to the children, commend me the Yak;
he's perfect to start them on when they are small,
for they cannot slip off of his very broad back,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
You can take a wild ride on a wild catamount
if your ears can stand up to his wild caterwaul.
You can poke your own fist, but that really don't count,
and the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Take care when you lift up the elephant's tail
or beware of the fate that else may befall:
if you pick the wrong end you could wind up impaled!
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
To futter the bat you must take to the air.
She'll flutter her wings and go into a stall
and pitch you off into God-only-knows-where,
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The billygoat's habits, though pungent and weird,
you've got to accept if it's him that you'd ball:
he don't use cologne, he just cums in his beard,
and the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
The guinea pig's timid, and brainless to boot,
he's worse than no use in a ruckus or brawl,
but you can't pass him up 'cause he's so bloody cute!
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
You can bugger a whale if you're willing to swim
or an ORanguTANG if you hang from a limb;
or make time with a snail if you slow... to... a... crawl...,
... but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all!
Final chorus
Or how about "A wizards staff has a nob on the end"?
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