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rabid1stI ask because all must read Terry Pratchett. The Discworld is what the Buffyverse WISHES it was. Every BtVS and AtS fan or former fan must at the very least read "Carpe Jugulum" a.k.a. "the vampire one."
Find out why by checking out the quotes under CARPE JUGULUM at the following page...
http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet/Closet.html#Pratchett
or go to the official Pratchett site...L-Space at...
http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/pqf/
just click on a book title and laugh out loud.
If you start reading Pratchett you will find that he is as quotable as the Bible or Shakespeare. He is a genuine unsung satirical treasure.
And once you've read "Carpe Jugulum" you should probably go back and read the books in order. Because, while you CAN skip about a bit...some characters loop through several books having interconnected adventures.
My personal faves:
Carpe Jugulum (Vampires, Witches and Fairytale Princesses...oh, my)
Mort(Death takes on an apprentice)
Guard, Guards (all about the human soul, politics, morality and dragons), it opens with this bit of nonsense:
Fingers: "'The significant owl hoots in the night.'"
Doorman: "'Yet many grey lords go sadly to the masterless men.'"
Fingers: "'Hooray, hooray for the spinster's sister's daughter."
Doorman: "'To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.'"
Fingers: "'Yet verily, the rose is within the thorn.'"
Doorman: "'The good mother makes bean soup for the errant boy.'"
Fingers: "What?"
Doorman: "'The good mother makes bean soup for the errant boy.'"
Fingers: "Are you sure the ill-built tower doesn't tremble mightily at a butterfly's passage?"
Doorman: "Nope. Bean soup it is. I'm sorry."
Fingers: "What about the caged whale?"
Doorman: "What about it?"
Fingers: "It should know nothing of the mighty deeps, if you must know."
Doorman: "Oh, the caged whale. You want the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Three doors down."
AND CONTAINS THIS LITTLE GEM:
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. City law said that only condemned criminals should be used, but that was all right because in most of the religions refusing to volunteer for sacrifice was an offense punishable by death.
AS WELL AS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRATCHETT QUOTES EVER:
There was a thoughtful pause in the conversation as the assembled Brethren mentally divided the universe into the deserving and the undeserving, and put themselves on the appropriate side.
-- The Elucidated Brethren see the light (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
The Truth (Journalism and Media Bias...and well...truth)
The Hogfather (when the discworld equivalent of Father Christmas goes missing...Death takes over the job...an exploration of the importance of childhood mythology...there's also a crazed serial killer)
Wyrd Sisters (Speaking of Shakespeare and Pratchett...a delightful send up of the Bard).
So, what are you waiting for? Go...enjoy...you can thank me later! :-D
AND remember, as Buffy WISHES she once said:
On Earth, No-one Can Hear You Say "Um".
-- (Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind)
Find out why by checking out the quotes under CARPE JUGULUM at the following page...
http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet/Closet.html#Pratchett
or go to the official Pratchett site...L-Space at...
http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/pqf/
just click on a book title and laugh out loud.
If you start reading Pratchett you will find that he is as quotable as the Bible or Shakespeare. He is a genuine unsung satirical treasure.
And once you've read "Carpe Jugulum" you should probably go back and read the books in order. Because, while you CAN skip about a bit...some characters loop through several books having interconnected adventures.
My personal faves:
Carpe Jugulum (Vampires, Witches and Fairytale Princesses...oh, my)
Mort(Death takes on an apprentice)
Guard, Guards (all about the human soul, politics, morality and dragons), it opens with this bit of nonsense:
Fingers: "'The significant owl hoots in the night.'"
Doorman: "'Yet many grey lords go sadly to the masterless men.'"
Fingers: "'Hooray, hooray for the spinster's sister's daughter."
Doorman: "'To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.'"
Fingers: "'Yet verily, the rose is within the thorn.'"
Doorman: "'The good mother makes bean soup for the errant boy.'"
Fingers: "What?"
Doorman: "'The good mother makes bean soup for the errant boy.'"
Fingers: "Are you sure the ill-built tower doesn't tremble mightily at a butterfly's passage?"
Doorman: "Nope. Bean soup it is. I'm sorry."
Fingers: "What about the caged whale?"
Doorman: "What about it?"
Fingers: "It should know nothing of the mighty deeps, if you must know."
Doorman: "Oh, the caged whale. You want the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Three doors down."
AND CONTAINS THIS LITTLE GEM:
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. City law said that only condemned criminals should be used, but that was all right because in most of the religions refusing to volunteer for sacrifice was an offense punishable by death.
AS WELL AS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRATCHETT QUOTES EVER:
There was a thoughtful pause in the conversation as the assembled Brethren mentally divided the universe into the deserving and the undeserving, and put themselves on the appropriate side.
-- The Elucidated Brethren see the light (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
The Truth (Journalism and Media Bias...and well...truth)
The Hogfather (when the discworld equivalent of Father Christmas goes missing...Death takes over the job...an exploration of the importance of childhood mythology...there's also a crazed serial killer)
Wyrd Sisters (Speaking of Shakespeare and Pratchett...a delightful send up of the Bard).
So, what are you waiting for? Go...enjoy...you can thank me later! :-D
AND remember, as Buffy WISHES she once said:
On Earth, No-one Can Hear You Say "Um".
-- (Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind)
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Rabid the Librarian to the rescue...
Date: 2003-07-12 12:39 pm (UTC)To find the complete order of this (or almost any series) go to the Kent Library Database at...
http://www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp
type in Pratchett, Terry in the author field...(or you know...Steel, Danielle...or if you have better taste than THAT ;-D Dunnett, Dorothy).
To start you off...the first four books are...
1) Colour of Magic or (for the Americans) Color of Magic
2) The Light Fantastic
3) Equal Rites
4) Mort - The first one in order I can say I LOVED...