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[Kagus]

Yeah, the books have audio versions as well. Toothless speaks. With a lisp, of course.

[Levi]

Is it worth reading/listening you think?  I'm been trying to force myself through Discworld and it just isn't doing it for me.

[Jopax]

Really? Which parts of DW? They had several different readers over the years, and this is entirely presonal but I loved pretty much all of them. Tho few things beat reading the things yourself since you can reread a certain sentance fifteen times and laugh harder each time because fuck me did Pratchett have a way with words that I have never expirienced elsewhere (Gaiman came in the same ballpark on occasion but that was about it).

[Kagus]

Well, uh... I don't really know what to say to that. They're different from the movies, certainly, not least of which because Toothless is the size of a large cat, rather than something that can be ridden.

But I have no idea what someone who doesn't like Discworld would like. They're certainly different from Pratchett's literary style, and from what I can recall the books are basically "young lad with sarcastic flying cat learns how to do things differently in a world of brick-headed Vikings". But it's been a while since I listened to one.

[pisskop]

Discworld is nutters.
I liked the few I've listened to kn audiobook.

the ending was worth it, at least

[Levi]

I'm only part way through the 2nd one in the Discworld series so far, which I've heard are the weaker ones.  I probably should have just started with the more popular ones maybe.  I think its mostly the writing style I'm not enjoying, it always does scene changes with no warning/context, and the editing is horrible with punctuation/spelling mistakes all over the place.

[pikachu17]

The best one to enter the story is probably Small Gods. It is a great story, but it does not have many spoilers for the rest of the series, if I remember correctly.

[Kagus]

First one my family started on was Going Postal, actually... Which, while slamming smack dab into the middle of things, was still quite enjoyable.

[Jopax]

A bunch of them are pretty much self-contained story threads that just happen to happen in the same world and some of the characters make cameos (I do remember how he was annoyed by the difficulty of placing stories in Ankh-Morpork since they all inevitably had to include the night watch and that ran the risk of them taking over the story).

While I love pretty much all of it, I'd say the easiest ones/most fun to get into are either the night watch books or the witches (with death coming in a close third). Stuff with Rincewind is fun but highly dependant on who the supporting cast is (last hero for example is fucking brilliant while something like interesting times is slightly less so). Some of the later ones are damn great but you do lose out a bit by not knowing some of the characters and why they matter (again, mostly stuff in AM that includes a good deal of the nightwatch but isn't centered around them).

[pisskop]

My boss is leaving, and instead of any of us below her getting a promotion we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

[Yoink]

I liked Discworld for about five minutes as a kid before its smugness became unbearable.
The Amazing Maurice is still good, though.

[MrRoboto75]

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?

[Doomblade187]

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?

Raise may not be proportional to work increase.

[pikachu17]

we're all getting raises and more job to do.  :<

Isn't that basically a promotion?

Raise may not be proportional to work increase.

And besides, what he is describing is more like promoting everyone, instead of just one person.

[pisskop]

its more like cutting manpower and overall expenses, since the total increase isnt the cost of paying her