MORT

I just read this book in one sitting. I haven't devoured a book like that in a long time.

Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me that this Pratchett guy was a genius?

He has Alzheimer's disease

He's still a genius.
I'm still working my way through this book.
I prefer the ones about Rincewind.

Pratchett is still a charismatic genius.
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Well, if you've started with Mort and loved it, keep reading the Death series.

Proceed to Reaper Man, and Soul Music, and then maybe the Hogfather and the Thief of Time.

Reaper Man is where Pratchett goes from genius to divine.

Reading this as we speak. Nothing so special, really. Just another Pratchett book. Why the hell do you people love him so?

Question for all you Pratchett-fags.. do his other novels differ enough from The Colour of Magic to make them worth trying out if I couldn't finish the aforementioned book because it: somehow bored me / had some things I thought were pretty stupid / was not really that funny?
I tried it twice, actually. I even like Fritz Leibers Lankhmar stuff .. but, yeah. Willing to give him a third chance, though, if it's worth it.

The style of humor is the same, if thats what you mean.

>>7
IIRC The Colour of Magic is not my favorite one of his books. Maybe you should check out some of his later ones to get a sense of the state of his art.

>>7
Mort, the 4th diskworld book, is where the series starts to get really good.

The best diskworld books are Night Watch, Going Postal, Small Gods and Reaperman. to get the most out of Night Watch and ReaperMan it is worth reading them in the order they come in the Watch series and death series but Small Gods is a stand alone novel and Going Postal is the first of the Moist series. If you're looking for a good stand alone Prachett novel Pyramids and The Truth.

He rarely has a novel that is on the flat side, the only ones that spring to mind are Monstrous Regiment (which was good up until the point where it seems he had to rush the book to get it finished by the publishers deadline) and The Light Fantastic (again a good enough book and a necessary one to conclude the events of COM but not as slick as COM was). That said, even those two novels are light years ahead of his competition and in any case only Neil Gaiman and Robert Rankin even come close.

>>9
>>10
Thanks, I'll probably try one of those later series starters or standalone novels then, once I find the time.

Any of you lucky enough to be British?

If so there are dramatisations of some of Pratchett's books on the bbc radio iPlayer at the moment, including Mort and Small Gods. Just look through the BBC7 a to z program list.

The dramatisations are not as good as the books of course, that's the problem whenever anything gets abridged they cut out the best bits, but if anyone's wondering weather to give Pratchett a go why not have a listen?

Anyone else seen the cartoons of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters?
They're pretty good.

>>13

The live action mini series of "the hogfather", "the colour of magic" and "the light fantastic" are good too, although they cut out some of the best parts just to make them fit into 4 'tv hours'.

When I first heard Twoflower was being played as a western looking tourist rather than an oriental looking tourist I did RAGE though. However the actor who played him played the role so  well in the end it didn't really matter. David Jason was fantastic as Rincewind and he played the part so distinctly from how he played Albert in the Hogfather if they were to make Mort into a mini series then he could easily play both parts without  spoiling the illusion (clever camera trickery would have to be used though). Tim Curry stole the show though.