Discworld

I finished the second series yesterday and I'm ready to share what I thought of it.

If I have to give it a rating out of ten, ten being perfect, one being not only technically bad but also morally offensive, this is a 6,9. I liked it enough, but series 1 was an 8,8.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2863924

Love the discworld puzzles! Completed this one a while ago. The boxes are also really beautiful:

"It belonged to a small man with a beaming red face, one of those people blessed with the permanent expression of someone who has just heard a rather saucy joke.

“Only I grew this carrot,” he went on, “and I reckon it’s grown into a very interesting shape. Eh? What d’you think, eh? Talk about a giggle, eh? I took it down to the pub and everyone was killin’ ’emselves! They said I should put it in your paper!”

He held it aloft. It was a very interesting shape. And William went a very interesting shade." -The Truth, Terry Pratchett

The artist did such a good job imo

I recently saw Good Omens (Not Discworld, but still a Terry Pratchett adaptation) and I really enjoyed it.

I was wondering what you think the best Discworld adaptations are? I saw some trailers but most of them didn't look that great to me.. But I'd love to give some a chance if there are any recommendations?

A few years ago I stumbled onto this, and it provided a nice afternoon feature film. Figured the folks here would enjoy it!

On "The Other Place" I remember seeing lots of threads about your favourite line, joke or quote in the series. And those threads were fun, but ultimately it's always the heavy hitters being repeated over and over.

So my question to you, Lemmings and Kbinauts, is what is your favourite underrated line in the series? Something that makes you laugh, or makes you think, every time but you never see talked about?

Yes, this whole thread is just an excuse to post about how much I adore the following description from Moving Pictures:

It looked like a large, ornate pot, almost as high as a man of large pot height.

Honourable mention goes to my second fave, also in fact from Moving Pictures and the best side character in the series:

Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob'ly tentacled fings that rips your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, stands to reason wot comes out ain't going to be pleased to see you. Evil creatures wot Man shouldn't wot of, and here's one dog wot don't want to wot of them either.

I've read both of these gods know how many times, and still laugh out loud every single time.

Go on, share your favourites!

Title seems self explanatory, no?

Years ago I read a disc world book for the first time, the wee free men, I can't remember much except I loved it.. Now I've bought the colour of magic and planning to slowly read them all. Is there a certain order recommended? I was planning to go by chronological order but thought I'd ask :)

Thought I'd post this up here since I've not seen it mentioned. For those who want to explore the world of discworld, this is a great MUD.

Very friendly community when I hop on every few months, and with a lot of rich detail from the books.

Like probably most of you I do own at least the majority of the books in physical form. But sometimes it's just easier to read on Kindle.

Sadly they're about £5.99 each, which is absolutely worth it if you can afford it, but x41 books it really adds up.

The good news is, if you check regularly you'll find that one or two books go on sale at a time for as little as 99p. Personally I pick up anything that goes under £2, currently I think that's just Guards! Guards! but they change all the time.

If anyone knows what schedule they change on that would be useful info, atm I just have a reminder to check back every couple of weeks.

(link is to the UK page but I'm sure the same applies on other Amazon sites too)

I figured that this would be as good as any for my first post on Lemmy - showing off the entire Discworld Collector's Library series that I managed to purchase from BookDepository.com before Amazon shut it down. Was able to pickup the whole series for around $500 USD. So glad I was able to get these and never figured I would own the complete set of these nice hardback editions.

As title. If so, what was your first DW book? What's your favorite?