Least favourite Discworld book

[Sister Jennifer]

Monstrous Regiment is my 2nd favourite stand alone book after Small Gods.

Anyway, Unseen Academicals has one of the best book covers ( The Librarian & The Luggage!) but it'd be my least favourite. Mr Nutt & Trev were good characters though.

Making Money was better on the second read.

 

[KEN DOG]

the wee free men.
hate it.

the colour of magic took a few attemps at reading,but it grew on me.

not read UA yet. just about to start it.

 

[michelanCello]

the wee free men.
hate it.

How can you hate a DW book? And why Wee Free Man??

 

[KEN DOG]

i guess because they have a thick scotish acient,and it is written that way i find it hard to read. i find it hard to understand the scottish acient when spoken.lol as a result i just gave up with it.

each to there own. but i just could not get on with it.

but you know what? im going to give it another go. try,try again.

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

 

[michelanCello]

i guess because they have a thick scotish acient,and it is written that way i find it hard to read. i find it hard to understand the scottish acient when spoken.lol as a result i just gave up with it.

each to there own. but i just could not get on with it.

but you know what? im going to give it another go. try,try again.

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

Love that quote

It's interesting, though, that it was because of the accent that I loved the book - I can almost hear them in my head, talking

 

[KEN DOG]

im going to try it again. everyone tells me how good it is. just about to start UA. so after that i will give it a go.

“Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say "You got lots of cash and land, but I've got a big sword, so divy up right now, chop chop"”

 

[michelanCello]

 

[Anonymous]

the wee free men.
hate it.

How can you hate a DW book?[...]

*waves casually*

 

[Bron H]

There have only ever been two discworld books i havn't enjoyed. :|
These are the first two The colour of Magic and the light fantastic.
They just didn't get it for me.
It was lucky i'd read the tiffany books first otherwise i might have given up after i'd read the first two.

 

[author3]

At the moment my least favourite book besides The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic is The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. :|

 

[Thales of Miletus]

I think it would have to be Moving Pictures. I mean I like its construction, re-envisioning of early Hollywood and integration of Plato's Cave theory, but non of the characters ever seemed to click for me - asides from CMOT; where's my 1000 elephants - and the reality collapse at the end just seemed a little predictable.

 

[Sephiroph]

I basically am in a tie for worst book. It's every book about the witches
They set my teeth on edge.

 

[Ziriath]

I used not to like them, but after the years they are okay. But if I had to spend more than ten minutes with them in one room IRL, I would be about to commit suicide.

 

[TimBou]

Unseen Academicals - too slow and ponderous and I get the feeling Terry just doesn't love football so why write about it? There's still some good things in there though as with all his books.
Moving Pictures - fun but just a tad too silly and the central characters don't really engage me.
I'm still only about halfway through all of Discworld yet so this may change.

 

[author3]

Hello and Welcome TimBou

 

[Tonyblack]

To be fair, I don't believe that UA IS about football. There's football in there, but it's not what the book is about.

 

[meerkat]

Acceptance runs all the way through UA, acceptance for what you, and others, are. It is parodied by the game of foot-the-ball and the acceptance of the new Rules.

I shall crawl away now and shut up....

 

[pip]

Wow Meer , that was deep. I'm a footie loon and i agree with you guys. Football is a foil for the story and meaning rather than the core .

 

[meerkat]

Don't know what came over me, Pip!

(could have been reading Die Ditterssmertzkopfgeseitlinghaus, by Deiter Schmuck)

 

[pip]

That would explain it