How did you discover Discworld/Terry Pratchett?
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Meself - I just found a really funny book in the local store - funny cover, etc. Was very sad those days - looking for a way out of me life - I mean a good advice. The Colour of Magic - this is the answer - it worked. Now, i am where I am. Life is great and this is based on the overall attitude Terry's books give us.
I don't know if he reads this forum but I must say his books save (really, not joking) LIVES.
THANKS again.
Meself.
I don't know if he reads this forum but I must say his books save (really, not joking) LIVES.
THANKS again.
Meself.
Hello to all who new members and dont know me 
welcom to the crazay forem I started reading the graphic novels meany moons ago and then moved on the books, the reason I started with graphic novels is because I Dyslxic but as I moved thorogh the childrens books trukers, diggers and wing my reading inproved and i started the discworld book and have never looked back, it was not for TP I think i would of given up reading. thanks TP
welcom to the crazay forem I started reading the graphic novels meany moons ago and then moved on the books, the reason I started with graphic novels is because I Dyslxic but as I moved thorogh the childrens books trukers, diggers and wing my reading inproved and i started the discworld book and have never looked back, it was not for TP I think i would of given up reading. thanks TP 
im new here. so hey everyone,
i first started readin his books when i was about 9 when my mam handed me colour of magic. i loved it and read it quite a few times i ended up doing a book report at school and got a very good grade on it.
ever since ive been collecting his books.
im now away to turn 20 so thank you terry pratchett for entertaining me all those years.
i first started readin his books when i was about 9 when my mam handed me colour of magic. i loved it and read it quite a few times i ended up doing a book report at school and got a very good grade on it.
ever since ive been collecting his books.
im now away to turn 20 so thank you terry pratchett for entertaining me all those years.
Long story.
When I was about nine or so I read Colour of Magic, loved it, and forgot it. That mom got me a copy of Eric from the library narrated by Tony Robinson, and I loved it, and forgot about it too.
Then a few years later mom got me the movie Hogfather around Christmas time. I watched that, loved it, listened to the audio book, and was looking for another Pratchett audiobook when I found Jingo.
Eureka!
I couldn't get enough of Sam Vimes! I went on to read the rest of the Watch books, starting from the first, and eventually transformed into the Disc fan I am today.
When I was about nine or so I read Colour of Magic, loved it, and forgot it. That mom got me a copy of Eric from the library narrated by Tony Robinson, and I loved it, and forgot about it too.
Then a few years later mom got me the movie Hogfather around Christmas time. I watched that, loved it, listened to the audio book, and was looking for another Pratchett audiobook when I found Jingo.
Eureka!
I couldn't get enough of Sam Vimes! I went on to read the rest of the Watch books, starting from the first, and eventually transformed into the Disc fan I am today.
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My Grandad used to read them, and I inherited most of his book collection when he sadly passed. It makes me regret not discovering them sooner so we could of had a good chin wag about it. Best gift ever to leave me though.
The first present my partner ever bought me was a signed FE of Going Postal. It was personalised to me and said:
To Shelly, The ideal partner for Twoflower.
I treasure that book so much. No gum marks around the edges or anything
The first present my partner ever bought me was a signed FE of Going Postal. It was personalised to me and said:
To Shelly, The ideal partner for Twoflower.
I treasure that book so much. No gum marks around the edges or anything
I was reading my first Discworld book, and I really now cannot remember which one, and I worked out how a (range of?) mountain(s) got the name "Your finger, you fool!" from a cartographer owing to a lack of skill in the local language - a joke so beautifully worked that you supplied your own setting up. I started reading much more carefully, and was delighted how I was rewarded. I read more and more, and I haven't stopped (nor will I, because there have been titles I was not familiar with that I started reading and found I knew the story - but read anyway, because these are books that reward rereading - which means that among those titles I have mentally ticked off there is likely to be one or more which I haven't actually read...)
Okay, can anyone tell me the name of that first book? I think it may have been a footnote rather than a part of the plot(s) or character building.
Okay, can anyone tell me the name of that first book? I think it may have been a footnote rather than a part of the plot(s) or character building.