# Favorite Discworld series?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780 "2018-10-10T21:29:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/1 "2018-10-10T21:29:12Z")
I’m not including a vote for the stand-alones, just the main series in the books.
What is your favorite? Why?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/2 "2018-10-10T21:49:44Z")
The city watch, which was consistently good and funny. The Shakespeare parodies in The Witches were clever, too.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/3 "2018-10-10T22:15:25Z")
City Watch for me too(I’m on Night Watch right now).
I admire Carrot and Vimes, two fictional characters I actually find myself looking up to. Not many series I can say that about.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/4 "2018-10-10T23:31:54Z")
I’m tempted to cheat and call Tiffany Aching a subset of the Witches. But then, if I were going to cheat, I’d just call everything except for _The Wee Free Men_ a DEATH book, and vote for those. So I think I have to go with Tiffany.
Witches is probably in second place, but that’s on overall quality: Some of my favorites are DEATH books, but some of those are pretty lackluster, too. And while I love Vimes and Carrot (and Detritus, Cheery, and Angua) as characters, some of the stories they’re in aren’t too great.
Moist von Lipvig, of course, has two great books and one stinker.
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### Author:  [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/5 "2018-10-11T00:51:39Z")
Tiffany, but it’s not like it pulls out ahead by a mile. My favorite book probably is Witches Abroad and my favorite character might be Vimes or Death or Granny. There’s a lot to be said for all of them, even the wizards.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/6 "2018-10-11T01:16:49Z")
I haven’t read any Tiffany Aching yet, and only some of the Witches books, but for me, it’s still the Watch books by a mile. I love Vimes. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/7 "2018-10-11T06:09:12Z")
Wizards (and one wizzard) for me. I love all the book series, but will always have a soft spot for Rincewind.
I choose to include the\* Science of the Discworld\* books in there.
Although, of all Pratchett, if the Johnny Maxwell books were included, they’d get my vote instead.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/8 "2018-10-11T06:52:25Z")
I like them all for different reasons. And The Witches dovetails into Tiffany Aching so closely I’d say they’re the same series.
Death’s stories get a bit repetitious. I have great love for Rincewind, but I recognise his stories lack bite. I also like the City Watch but unlike most people I really don’t like Vimes as a character.
I chose Tiffany Aching’s series, they hit all the right notes consistently for me.
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### Author:  [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/9 "2018-10-11T07:14:21Z")
Witches Abroad is just quintessential Prachett. Taking fairytales and turn them inside out.
Make sure Cinderella doesn’t marry the Prince.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/10 "2018-10-11T07:24:34Z")
So far, I have only read from four of those, and then only one or two each. But of those I like _Going Postal_ the most. So my vote’s for Moist.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/11 "2018-10-11T18:55:32Z")
Very close between the witches and the Watch, but when I found out that my cousin had never read any Discworld books (and he is the kind of person who would love them) I recommended that he start with _Guards, Guards_.
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/12 "2018-10-11T19:29:10Z")
I voted for Moist, but I could just as happily voted for the witches or for the watch. Loved them all.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/13 "2018-10-11T21:13:36Z")
Oh, and what about _Equal Rites_ and _Lords and Ladies_? Are we putting those in “witch” or “wizard”?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-discworld-series/822780/14 "2018-10-11T21:16:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Oh, and what about _Equal Rites_ and _Lords and Ladies_? Are we putting those in “witch” or “wizard”?
It’s really up to you since we’re looking at overall series. I would look at both series with those novels included and see which series is superior.