# Discworld novels, best & worst--you pick

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 10, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-novels-best-worst-you-pick/488960 "2009-03-10T14:53:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-novels-best-worst-you-pick/488960/61 "2009-03-25T11:45:00Z")

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> [@NoCoolUserName](#):
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> You mean A’Tuin and the elephants and the disc? That would be awesome!  
> So you’re going to the N.A. Discworld con then?

Yes, the whole thing. I like elephants and turtles and Discworld so it seems perfect to me.  
Um, when is it and where? I’d love to go but things like that are never anywhere near me.  
Never mind. Just checked. Arizona. No chance in hell. Not only will I not be able to take the time off from work, I can’t afford it and I don’t go south in the summer. I learned that lesson going to Florida the first week in September. I am a northerner. I don’t do heat very well. I wish I could though.

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**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-novels-best-worst-you-pick/488960/62 "2009-03-25T14:44:28Z")

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Worst: Lords and Ladies, Eric

Best: ummm thats a difficult question. I’ll say Thief of Time, Night Watch, Guards! Guards!, and Pyramids.

I’m not that high on Rincewind, he’s decent but not great. I love Cohen the Barbarian, he really needs his own paperback series (I borrowed the Last Hero from my local library but haven’t purchased it yet).

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**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-novels-best-worst-you-pick/488960/63 "2009-03-25T15:38:59Z")

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Best: **Small Gods** but this a tough choice, my favourite charcters are Sam Vimes and Granny Weatherwax however **Small Gods** is the book I have re-read the most.

Worst: **Monstrous Regiment** I couldn’t finish it and I’ve yet to read another pterry book since.

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**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-novels-best-worst-you-pick/488960/64 "2009-03-25T16:13:24Z")

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I can’t pinpoint a “best” - it’d have to be a toss-up between _Night Watch_ (fantastic writing, but so durn grim), _Small Gods_ &\* Feet of Clay\* for tackling serious subjects and probably the (apparently not-much-loved) “Fifth Elephant” - I dunno why, except that the description of Uberwald and dwarf mines just clicked with me. (And the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya.)

Worst: _Interesting Times_. Material there for a good dozen short stories, and a lot of the individual vignettes were OK, but the overall plot didn’t click with me at all. It’s the least-read on my shelf.

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