With the death of Terry Pratchett, his Discworld characters will become as immortal as those of Grimm, Dahl, Anderson, Tolkien, and Lewis.
But many have never read his books but you see, now is the time to start
This is my top ten picks from the 38 books that have being released (not counting The Shepard's Crowd as it's not released yet! also not counting companion guides, Science of Discworld, the quiz books, or Where's My Cow?) These books I've read from cover to cover and stayed with me.
NUMBER 10
THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
A decade after writing his last children's book, Sir Terry wrote the book that defeated the unstoppable Harry Potter for the Carnegie Medal. The Plot is a simple story about a talking cat, a rat civilization convinced a fairy tale world is real, a boy who can play the flute, and pied piper scam that they pull in ever town on the Sto Plains!
NUMBER 9
PYRAMIDS
The 1st of 3 stand alone adventures, A prince From Egypt Stand in Djelibebi who studies as an assassin, senses this father has died, returning to his country, the idea of succession is denied by the evil priest Dios, Pyramids in honour of the gods are being constructed every day, in fact these Pyramids are off-setters of time, Djelibebi has being in it's own time pocket and has being set behind the rest of the disc by 50 years! can the Assassin prince fight off Dios, mummies and mooching gods to save his country?
NUMBER 8
THE LAST HERO
The only illustrated book in the series is the final adventure of Cohen the barbarian and his horde of octogenarian raiders. Felt that they have being denied the glorious death worthy of heroes. the horde with a kidnapped minstrel in tow, climb to the home of the gods to blow them up with a magically enhanced bomb? can the Disc's first ever space program stop the horde from destroying all creation?
NUMBER7
WYRD SISTERS
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NUMBER 6
WITCHES ABROAD
The sequel saw the 3 witches heading to the swampy tourist trap of Genua, having the Godmother thing with Tom-Jon down pat, they head on a long trip to stop their charge being married to a frog by the fairy tale obsessed Lilith, who turns out to be Granny Weatherwax's Evil sister!
NUMBER 5
SOUL MUSIC
Pratchett was always a fan of music, always appearing at Jools Holland's New Year Party before his condition. So when i got a copy of this book, i felt a lot of love of the subject in it!
A harpist is Gifted with a magical Guitar that contains the soul of every person that ever played it. with this instrument and a troll drummer's tuned rocks "Music With The Rocks In!" causes a mad sensation, woman throw themselves at the band, Other bands are formed, the middle aged to elderly staff of Unseen University become beatniks, hippies,New Romantics, Metallers, Grungers and Hipsters in the space of a week! It's up to Death's Granddaughter Susan to stop the guitar from causing the death of the band into infamy! Filled with Great references and a sad sidestory of Death having to reap his own daughter, this is one of the the best!
NUMBER 4
HOGFATHER
I love Christmas, i love it so much i don't work at all during that time!
Susan returns, this time as a governess to two children. The Auditor of Reality, a shady other world organization that wants to destroy the fabric of magic, hire the deranged Assassin Mister Teatime and a failed wizard to kill their Santa figure, by using voodoo on the teeth of all the children to stop them believing in him. Death stands in of the Hogfather. While the tv Adaption was...admirable! the book is really good!
NUMBER 3
MEN AT ARMS
I've always preferred the Night-Watch based stories and this one can only be described as "Police Academy, but funny!"
The Night Watch, under the chair of the recently Signed in Commander Sam Vimes, has lowered the requirements needed to join the Watch, making the watch open to the enthusiastic Carrot, the beautiful werewolf Angua, many trolls and dwarfs, whose species hate each other! and felon Nobby Nobbs "who should be disqualified from the human race for Shoving!" this new watch must get it's act together as a madman with the world's first gun is killing Guild Members and leaving no trace.
NUMBER 2
REAPER MAN
What Happens if you were in a thankless job?
What if this job made you hated by everyone?
What if you just decided "I QUIT!"
What if this job...was being Death?
Countless Millennia being the reaper has took its toll and Death packs it all in for a quiet life in the country. With a Death, the dead become Undead and the Supreme God Creates a New Death, a better Death, a super-efficent Death that doesn't even wait for people's times to be up! It's Up to Death to restore the Balance and regain his role in the universe, but is it a role he still wants to play?
NUMBER 1-TIE!
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC AND THE LIGHT FANTASTIC!
The very first trip to the Ancient and Modern city of Anhk-Morpork where we meet the greatest hero of Discworld-Rincewind, a flunkee "Wizzard" who failed his exams and couldn't cast spells...because after a prank one of the eight forbidden spells was lodged in his memory! Strapped for cash and not wanting to disappear by leaving his organ behind and blood behind, agrees with the City's Patrician to become the guide to Twoflower, the world's first tourist and his living Luggage, a Chest shaped creature with a mind of it's own! Twoflower wants to see the Solstice, which becomes an ill omen when a meteorite is set to collide with Ankh-Morpork
A great Intro into how the World works!
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