Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett in general

I first discovered Terry Pratchetts work at 12, in the form of the Last Continent. This was the first book I ever truly fell in love with; since then I've gone on to buy every one of the main Discworld books, and have read most of the books Pratchett has written in collaberation with other people. I continually go back to these books, and read the whole series at least once a year. It has developed into something of an obsession! When reading that first book, the Last Continent, I found the way of writing very friendly and funny. I've re-read that same book many times and each time it seems to develop into something deeper and more meaningful, making you ...

Terry Pratchett :- The Discworld Novels. To properly introduce you to the Discworld let me use the authors own words from the prologue of The Colour Of Magic, In a distant and second hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part.....see.... Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the destination. In a brain bigger than a city, with ...

Authors Note: The architecture, characters and cuisine are all probably soundly trademarked by one Mr. Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld stories, but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me pinching them if it got him more sales. _________ It was with great trepidation that I stood in front of the large gates that supply one of few legitimate entrances in to the city of Ankh-Morpork. Ankh-Morpork. The city sits upon Discworld, a disc shaped world that resides on four elephants, who in turn are transported through the cosmos on the back of “The Great A’Tuin” space turtle. The walls of the city ran in both directions ...