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[Jackrabbit]

My favorite is Night Watch. Which is also his least funny one, oddly enough.

But yeah, literary genius, couldn't agree more.

[smigenboger]

The random people on the internet consensus is unanimous. I'll start looking for Discworld books at the library, along with Strangelove. If not there, I might even buy a few.

[scriver]

I've been thinking for a long time that I should start reeding Pratchett in original English. Translations always seem to take away so much of the humour.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

I've been thinking for a long time that I should start reeding Pratchett in original English. Translations always seem to take away so much of the humour.

absolutely, especially with puntastic authors like pratchett

[maxicaxi]

when people state that Paolini identifies himself with the elves, they are wrong.

word of god clearly states that he prefer dwarves over elves.

[andrea]

he prefers dwarves over elves.

who doesn't?

[Cthulhu]

I actually don't like dorfs very much.  They're funny and all but I'm a humanity fick year kind of guy.

[Lucus Casius]

Well, obviously humanity is the greatest race. Second would be dragons. After that, dwarves.  Then whatever passes for halflings.  Then gnomes.  Then whatever beast-people the world has.  Elves suck, but half-elves are somewhere in the middle of the list.  Other races are not listed.

[smigenboger]

Gnomes can be grand when the author doesn't make them incompetent with their technology. It can be said with any race, but if the author lets them crack magic too, they'd have Golden Compass technology in the dark ages.

[Josephus]

when people state that Paolini identifies himself with the elves, they are wrong.

word of god clearly states that he prefer dwarves over elves.

Then god is a liar.

[Sergius]

when people state that Paolini identifies himself with the elves, they are wrong.

word of god clearly states that he prefer dwarves over elves.

Then god is a liar.

[raspyvoice] It's not who you are underneath... it's what you do... that defines you.  [/raspyvoice]

[RedKing]

I think Small Gods was my favourite. It had a serious plot with some silly elements that marked it as Discworld, without getting too irreverent.

Small Gods was effing brilliant, especially Om's Crowning Moment of Awesome:

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when he drops his little turtle body from the sky onto Exquisitioner Vorbis, killing what's left of his earthly form and fulfilling the masses' pleas for a miracle, causing him to suddenly be a GOD again.

Also, if you haven't read it, read Good Omens, Pratchett's collaboration with Neil Gaiman. It's basically the plot of The Omen, except the Antichrist accidentally got switched at birth and grew up normal.

[Jackrabbit]

Yeah, Good Omens is similarly brilliant.

[Armok]

I, to, recommend that book.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

and neil gaiman is also one of those authors that should be read in english rather than translated.