On the gripping hand, I hold that Small Gods is Literature, whilst Snuff is sub-par meanderings published by accident.
The Disc is large - it contains multitudes.
I don’t know, I am rather fond of the scene with Laveolus - runs from ‘see to the child’ to ‘see to the sprog’ as the orders go down in ranks =)
My favorites are the City Guard series - I just really love the city guards [or more specifically the non-University city stuff, I sort of lump The Times, Making Money and Going Postal in.
Have you read Dodger?
Yep. Just wait 'til you read the one with the character kaylasdad99. You’re gonna plotz; I guarantee it. 
Someone evidently didn’t read Eric.
“It’s full of elephants!” might be the Pratchett line that made me laugh the most. That’s because I love 2001.
I’m fond of both Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, but I didn’t much like their collaboration. Interesting idea, but not enough Terry.
Actually, Moving Pictures is his worst. It just misfired on a subject that I would think would be right in Pratchett’s wheelhouse. But it’s only occasionally amusing, and has not depth to it.
Azhural raised his staff. “It’s fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork,” he said. “We’ve got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon’s about to break and we’re wearing… we’re wearing… sort of things, like glass, only dark… dark glass things on our eyes…”
Any book with that quote can’t be the worst anything.
Yes I have. Loved it.
Like and dislike is subjective, obviously Small Gods didn’t resonate with me like it has with others. shrug That’s the way it goes
The Discworld made PTerry a legend.
The Nac Mac Feegle made him a god.
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Tuppence a bucket, well stamped down!
Perhaps I am either biased or unreasonable, but I have not read a Discworld book that I didn’t like. To me, they all had their merits in what they were about and what he was going for. There are some that I like more than others, but I have never read a bad one.
Including, in the case of some dwarves, the power to defy convention and act female. Feminism deconstructed.
But I think we call can agree that reading the worst one first would have hooked us as surely as the best.
Twopence more and up goes the donkey!
Funny, I read Colour of Magic when it was new and dismissed Pratchett as a so so writer and who needs another Piers Anthony. So 20 years later it was this board and posters like you Silenus & QTM that got me to try him again. He is now one of my favorites but I still dislike the Rincewind books.
That and Soul Music. The satire seemed strained. Now some of that may be me, as I love movies and rock music, and might just be objecting to my own ox being gored. I’ve re-read them both, and they have bits that are very enjoyable, but many other bits that just grate - like Bud Y Holly, and “Music Wit Rocks In”. There are far better jokes that could be made, and were in “Spinal Tap”.
"She struck the door and spake thusly: “Open up, you little sods!”
Why, oh why do so many people insist on calling him Pterry? If it’s just because of the character Ptraci in Pyramids, I am unconvinced that there’s any justification for that.
Do you keep a half-read book in your desk drawer, just so you can make a point of not finishing it?
And one thing I’ve been wondering lately… At what point did Pratchett decide to let the world start changing? Most of the early books seem to follow the standard fantasy template of returning to the status quo at the end: Sourcery re-enters the world, and is cataclysmic… until it leaves again. Moving pictures are invented, and quickly leave their mark… and then just as quickly fades away. Music with rocks in it is all the rage… until the rage dies off.
But the later books show a world in constant motion: Someone starts printing a newspaper… and from then on, there’s a reporter at every major event. The clacks towers allow rapid messages… which grow vastly in complexity and speed, and become so ingrained one can’t imagine life without them. The Watch grudgingly accepts a handful of non-human officers to meet a diversity quota… and it snowballs to the point where any new race to A-M first finds acceptance in the Watch.
At what point was the transition?
Pratchett, Terry. I think that’s about it.