MartinB Wrote:
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> Hmm.... There is a copy of Dark Side of the Sun in
> the school library. Must sneak in and borrow it.


Good luck: it is not like any other TP book and definitely shows the author's age (at time of writing).

I know. His Discworld stuff is better. I read it and Strata ages ago.

Still, was not totally bad. Have read much worse....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I was lucky enough to find a used bookstore this summer that sold all of their paperbacks for $1. I bought every DW book that they had that I hadn't read, and it only came up to about what I pay at the big bookstores. Too bad that bookstore's about 14 hours away from my home....

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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Sorry all,

I have only made it halfway through "The Colour of Magic"........

Try one of the other ones - don't give up on him! Seriously, I was not that impressed by it by COM personally but I am a hige fan of TP - his Witches and Guards series are excellent!!!!

Small Gods!

Colour of Magic and the second one are both not anywhere near his best. I'd go with Small Gods too...

Even Pterry said he doesn't count CoM and LF as discworld books

Sorry Annie, you're not going to be allowed to rest until you've read every Discworld book that any one of us thinks is the best.

I will merely say that Interesting Times and Mort are not bad. Although that is only because they have not been mentioned. The Witches took me a couple goes to like.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

>Sorry Annie, you're not going to be allowed to rest until you've read every >Discworld book that any one of us thinks is the best.

As it should be...

I'd say start with Mort and then dip your toe in and out where ever you want, as in Mort is where Death really becomes the character that he is in the rest of the books.

The Death books are good, but I do like the Guards

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

Thief of Time was fun

At this point, I say start anywhere. You really can't go wrong...

Speaking of, is the Rankin that gets referred to so often Ian Rankin or someone else entirely?

Because I've spent a heck of a lot of time with Inspector Rebus lately..

I think it's more likely Robert Rankin
[www.amazon.co.uk]


I am prepared to stand corrected.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/02/2008 11:48AM by 198505.

Who's Ian Rankin?
:P

I thought it was the temperature scale but with everyone consistently misspelling Rankine....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I stand corrected. Still, happy to have found Rebus, anyway.

Just realised that a friend of ours lives in 'Robert Rankine' Court. Anyone got any advice on where to get some white reflective paint so I can correct the spelling?

Ian Rankin was on the box in Oz a few weeks ago. He's a Scot, so although he writes murder mysteries he's acceptable.

Dunno about paint, but perhaps adding a Ye Olde to the start of it would work as well?