I can tell that inferring insult is not the fault of the receiver. If you were pissing people off, would you not want to know why? I have also met and chatted at length with the man, and I don't think it's his intention to be offensive, but the fact is that he was! If you're not insulted, why do you give a crap if I am?
Much as I love Terry & Discworld...
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I don't think anyone would doubt that he didn't mean to be offensive, just funny. However, turning around and dumping on Dotsie because she did find it offensive, with sound reasoning, is not called for. You can't dictate to someone what does or doesn't feel offensive to them, or disregard their feelings because you disagree in some way.
Er, back to the original topic...
Bouncy, as much as I love a lot of the 'stuff' (says the man who spent $80 US to get one of two Thud! sets in the U.S.)I do agree with you in some ways. As the concept owner, he deserves the right to commercially exploit DW however he wants to, and like others have said, we have the right not to buy into it. We all wish our art creators would be artistically pure, but when does that ever happen? It used to bug the snot of out of me when Charles Schulz would whore out Snoopy and Charlie Brown to shill everything from insurance to third-rate dessert cakes, but it was his right to do so.
You do know that an author has kind of jumped that commercial literary shark when you start seeing apostrophes being added, as in, "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" or "Frank Herbert's Dune" over the title of some lousy sequel or spin off created by someone else.
Bouncy, as much as I love a lot of the 'stuff' (says the man who spent $80 US to get one of two Thud! sets in the U.S.)I do agree with you in some ways. As the concept owner, he deserves the right to commercially exploit DW however he wants to, and like others have said, we have the right not to buy into it. We all wish our art creators would be artistically pure, but when does that ever happen? It used to bug the snot of out of me when Charles Schulz would whore out Snoopy and Charlie Brown to shill everything from insurance to third-rate dessert cakes, but it was his right to do so.
You do know that an author has kind of jumped that commercial literary shark when you start seeing apostrophes being added, as in, "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" or "Frank Herbert's Dune" over the title of some lousy sequel or spin off created by someone else.
Is that the Jammie Dogers, 
or the books,W/stone slipcased one, the W/stone one with extra story, the signed one from PJSM Prints one and I think W S Smith had something extra with theirs, thats a lot if you bought them all and I see PJSM ARE OFFERING the slipcased one signed for £200 I suppose if you are a completist you buy it in which case youre paying £170 for a signature, that's a serious amout of money for just one book unless you're as they say minted. 
or the books,W/stone slipcased one, the W/stone one with extra story, the signed one from PJSM Prints one and I think W S Smith had something extra with theirs, thats a lot if you bought them all and I see PJSM ARE OFFERING the slipcased one signed for £200 I suppose if you are a completist you buy it in which case youre paying £170 for a signature, that's a serious amout of money for just one book unless you're as they say minted. No, because in that situation Briggs is adapting an existing piece of Pterry's work for a different medium. Whereas, something with the header of "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" over a title such as "CMOT's Dibbler's Seven Habits of Barely Successful Businesspeople by Joe Smith and Mitt Twit" is what I'm talking out. The thing itself may be quite good, but Pterry may have nothing at all to do with the work itself other than whoring out the license.
Ok, fair enough
I think the only 'unofficial' Pratchett-related thing I have is Lawrence Watt-Evans' "The Turtle Moves" which isn't very good. Glad I didn't buy it, I won it as part of the UU Challenge prize at DWCon 2010. Because of its poor quality, I've avoided the few other "unofficial" guides out there, because I didn't want to waste my money on them if they weren't going to be any good.
I think the only 'unofficial' Pratchett-related thing I have is Lawrence Watt-Evans' "The Turtle Moves" which isn't very good. Glad I didn't buy it, I won it as part of the UU Challenge prize at DWCon 2010. Because of its poor quality, I've avoided the few other "unofficial" guides out there, because I didn't want to waste my money on them if they weren't going to be any good.
I've got the Maps - well apart from Death's Domain - and generally I like maps, but I don't think they really add to the enjoyment of the books. I'd suggest getting something like The New Discworld Companion as it is chock full of all sorts of information about the Discworld, the books and has maps in it as well. The one I've suggested here is a little out of date now. There is a new book called The Turtle Moves, which is an updated version of the companion, but I wouldn't be without my Companion, which gets a lot of use and therefore is a little dogeared. I'm not sure I'd want to treat a brand new hardcover like that.
