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GNU Terry Pratchett.
What a great guy.

But, we still have his books. Which ones are your favourites, everyone?

The Colour of Magic and Lords and Ladies, for me. And all of the Tiffany Aching books.

Night Watch > all

(My sense is that this is a pretty common opinion, but hey, ti's an amazing book)

Night Watch, no question.

Besides Night Watch though, Jingo.

Edited 2015-03-12 23:22 (UTC)

I always cycle between The Truth, Going Postal, and Making Money. I think Making Money is one of, if not the best Discworld book. They're just easy reads too, I always read end up reading them when I'm ... sad ... like now ...

Outside of Night Watch, which is kind of in its own category, I would say The Fifth Elephant, Feet of Clay, and Maskerade.

Fifth Elephant and Feet of Clay are great because they're really enjoyable as mysteries as well as fantasy comedy light humor books. And, I mean, Vimes is the best character, the Watch is the best group, they're just awesome books.

And Maskerade is great, I think, just because the collision between the Witches and Ankh-Morpork is so excellent.

...am I a terrible person? I only like Good Omens.

Good Omens is the book I travel with because I can read it over and over again. I've gone through multiple copies because they keep getting lent out or worn out.

Equal Rites, possibly. Or maybe Interesting Times. Or maybe Soul Music.

Or possibly The Science Of Discworld series.

The thing that I especially loved about that man was how committed he was to making scientific theory more accessible to laypeople. It was always a bit of a theme in his novels, but nowhere was it more evident than his Science Of series.

My favorite Tiffany book is The Shepherd's Crown.

It is the one he always said he was still working on. I suppose we may never read it now, but it will still always be my favorite because it represented hope.

Truckers diggers and wings were my first introduction to his stuff, and they still stay with me to a degree.

Only you can save mankind and Johnny and the Dead also stuck with me. Fist fell books without pictures that I chose to read, after having to read TD&W in english and falling in love.

It wasn't until I was in my teens when I discovered the discworld series, so my nostalgia sticks mostly to the other works.

One line that clings to the inside of my head when thinking of mortality is the line from Johnny and the dead:

"The living must remember. The dead must forget"

Small Gods, and Hogfather, and Maskerade. Basically everything. I found out right before I started work, and I work at a library, so when I got in I put his books on display.

It's so hard to decide. I love so many of the books I don't really know which are my favorites.

Night Watch.

Once upon a time my fool's hope was to write an actual musical version of it in the style of Les Miserables, and then send him a tape.

Discworld: Night Watch, Feet of Clay (WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN), Interesting Times, Reaper Man (What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the reaper man?)

Other: Only You Can Save Mankind, Good Omens

For Discworld, The Colour of Magic or Weird Sisters. For non-Discworld, Nation. Damn, I love Nation. Oh, or The Bromeliad! My sisters and I still frequently quote, "Back ho! Forward hey!"

ETA: Apparently The Bromeliad was a favorite of Randall Munroe as well: http://xkcd.com/1498/

Edited 2015-03-13 07:25 (UTC)

Night Watch is all time favorite.

Going Postal and Small Gods are my favorites to get new people into the series. And then I've always loved Jingo as well.

Small Gods. That one hooked in hard. I also loved Mort.

The Colour of Magic, Reaper Man and Thief of Time are my favourites.

I always liked the Death books best, so Reaper Man (which I sat down to reread once I heard the sad news) and Hogfather.

There's still a lot of Discworld for me to complete. But from what I've read: Small Gods, Going Postal, The Truth and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (my intro to Discworld and a favourite regardless of that), in no particular order.

Non-Discworld would be Nation (of his solo work I've only read this, Strata, and the Truckers trilogy) and Good Omens.

Oh no, now I should check if Neil Gaiman said anything. And see all the tributes. And Rhianna's Twitter. Maybe then I'll cry.

But for now it's...I think it's a kind of gratitude <3

Edited 2015-03-13 01:51 (UTC)

Good Omens, Going Postal, Night Watch books.

Fuck, it's so hard to choose. All the Night Watch books. Lords and Ladies. Tiffany Aching, yes. Good Omens.

Damnit, I'm crying again.

Small Gods and Going Postal for me. <3

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