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The last good Pratchett book was Jingo and that was published in 1997.

Makes me sad /lit/

>> No.1015582

What about The Fifth Elephant?

>> No.1015614

>>1015582

Prepared to agree with you. That was quite a good one, and the drop in quality to with Thief of Time was very marked.

There was a feeling with the books up to Fifth Elephant that they meant something, they led up to a kind of electrifying climax which seemed to reveal some deep truth.

Monstrous Regiment? Please.

>> No.1015655

>>1015614

I just reread Thud!...it was shit.

>> No.1015657

Terry Pratchett is the Pokemon of literature

>> No.1015679

>>1015655

Everything after Fifth Elephant was shit, and each one is more shit than the last.

>>1015657

The fanbases certainly feel similar.

>> No.1015682

I read a lot of fantasy books, more than most. And while that doesn't really give me any right to judge a book by damn I am anyway.

Maybe its because I got into pratchett late, maybe its because I never actually found his books funny in any way shape or form (My favorite humour authors are tome holt, douglas adams and to some extent simon r green, although I can never tell if the nightside is a joke or serious). When I read them it was just about the fantasy stories. I dislike the first few books up, guards guards is the first time I liked on, and even then it was mostly the stuff in the jail with vetenari that sold it too me.

Pratchetts books arn't funny, its the sort of humour that I used to come up with in highschool with my friends and think I was the height of wit, I was not.

Thief of time and nightwatch, which are of course inextricably linked, are my favorite pratchett books, and I think that every book in the series since about the 15th has been better than the last (except for the witches books, and the most recent book, which was terrible)

Of course, only my opinion, but fuck you I'll say what I want

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1015683

Since this is a discworld criticism-thread, mind if I ask some advice on which books I should buy next?
The books that are circled with purple are the ones that I already own.
And in case it matters, I love Death and Rincewind, liked Small Gods a lot and I still need to start with the Guards-novels.

>> No.1015687

>>1015657
Only the first ten year were good?

>> No.1015693

I thought /lit/ had a big hard on for Night Watch?

>> No.1015694

I dunno I found all of the pratchett novels to be in league with each other

Nation is my favorite of his works though, I think.

>> No.1015695

>>1015693
lit is far from a hivemind

>> No.1015696

>>1015683

Reaper Man is a good one.

I have always enjoyed the guards books up to an including Fifth Elephant.

Interesting Times and shit even Fifth Continent for Rincewind.

>>1015682

I never got the impression they were meant to be particularly funny. In fact his labored attempts at humor with Nanny Ogg are pretty dreadful.

>> No.1015698

I got into the Discworld books late too, around 2003-2004 and I've been reading them randomly

I enjoy most of them (missing 8) and don't see any quality drop between the past 10 years worth and the older ones, the only ones I haven't liked have been the Rincewind novels

>> No.1015701

>>1015695
>/lit/ not hivemind

Oh, c'mon now. If not for Discworld then it is in almost everything else.

>>1015682

I've always thought that the later you get into Discworld the better because Pratchett's humour is, for the most part, more subtle than something a youngster is likely to pick up on (or merely appreciate).

>> No.1015702

>>1015698<--me

just wanted to add that I thought Night Watch was one of the best books and that I've really enjoyed the Moist Von Lipwig books

>> No.1015707

>>1015698
>>1015702<-- both me

>>1015701
I was 28 the first time I read one of the novels, I don't often laugh out loud but I do love them for the subtlety of the humor

>> No.1015727

My first book was Last Continent when I was 14, now I'm 17 and I don't really see any drop in quality in recent books. I like the Watch ones the most and, damn, wasn't Thud! and Night Watch great? Y'know, maybe it's the advanced magitek/clockpunk world that makes them so good, but they really get to me.

>> No.1015762

Night watch is the best Discworld novel.
Not even Moist Von Lipwig is up to that standard.


...how do they rise up?

>> No.1015766

>>1015762
>Moist von Lipwig

hahahhahahaha nice one

>> No.1015783

>>1015762

Um, of course he isn't. He's shit.

Night Watch felt like it had just slightly the wrong tone to me. Like a sort of super-serious fan fiction.

For me the best watch books are a tie between Feet of Clay and Men At Arms. Probably FoC

>> No.1015793

best discworld novel is Thief of Time


in my opinion.

>> No.1015798

>>1015793

Surely you mean Small Gods.

>> No.1015869

Night Watch is a good book in it's own right, but it's serious tone is too much of a stark departure from the previous books to fit properly.

>> No.1015876

I enjoyed the Moist books (and The Truth) as side stories substantially more than Tiffany Aching or Unseen Academicals (in that it's focus is on an unknown character).

But then the old guy has been going mad for several years now.

>> No.1015923

>>1015793
Thief of Time was pretty horrible. First and last good Discworld book I read was Small Gods.

>> No.1017194

>>1015876

Unseen Academicals felt like it was written by a machine, some kind of bot emulating Terry Pratchett. I mean on the very first page it launched into a dull and pointless footnote taking up half the page, simply because that's the sort of thing Discworld books do.

>> No.1017219

Ok /lit/ Ive read Going Postal, only Pratchett book Ive read, it was alright. So you're saying its at the low end qualitywise?

>> No.1017396

>>1017219
Usually /lit/ has a huge hard-on for Pratchett, I'm not sure what's up with this thread.

>> No.1017462

>>1017219

I would say it's one of the weaker ones. Have a look at Reaper Man, or perhaps Men at Arms. Hogfather is good too, as is Interesting Times.

Small Gods is a must.

Hell, they're all good before Thief of Time.

>> No.1017494

>>1017194
every diskworld does.

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1017528

The last good Pratchett novel was Small Gods.

>> No.1017543

>>1017528

>pratchett novel

wat.jpeg

>> No.1019189

>>1017528

More like Interesting Times.

>> No.1019193

Isn't Going Postal fairly new? I thought that one was enjoyable.

>> No.1019196

I liked The Truth and the Tiffany Aching books. His other recent stuff was still okay, I think. Not terrible.

>> No.1019220

I read Thud! at age 14/15 or something and probably didn´t really understand the themes. Thinking about reading it again..

But the Discworld books are definitely his Magnum Opus

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>>1019196

>I liked The Truth and the Tiffany Aching books

>> No.1019245

The Tiffany books are good. They're just meant for a younger audience.