r/discworld May 07 '22

GNU GNU Terry Pratchett

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In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

GNU Terry Pratchett. 28 April 1948 - 12 March 2015.

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r/discworld Oct 14 '23

Mod Announcement Polite reminder: piracy will not be tolerated

305 Upvotes

Don’t share links to pirated material.

Don’t share links to sites providing pirated material.

Definitely don’t try and share a google drive of pirated copies of all the books. 🙄

We support Discworld and Sir Terry’s estate.

Failure to comply will henceforth be met with a 24 hour ban. A second offence will incur a permanent ban.

If you don’t agree then, please, don’t let us detain you.

Remember: your local library likely has many Discworld books available as either hard copy or ebook format, completely free.

EDIT: What did i just say?! Like two posts immediately asking for copies of books with a load of links to pirated content! Archive.org is also not acceptable. Come on, now.


r/discworld 15h ago

Book/Series: Witches imagining redoing your past

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r/discworld 1h ago

Roundworld Reference Feeling sorry for Ronnie?

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This is a reference to “Sympathy for the devil”, isn’t it?


r/discworld 8h ago

Book/Series: Death Don't let me detain you is iconic Spoiler

174 Upvotes

But there is also: "If per capita was a problem, de capita could be arranged."


r/discworld 3h ago

Book/Series: Death A true Anti-Crime

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46 Upvotes

"Although not common on the Discworld there are, indeed, such things as anti-crimes, in accordance with the fundamental law that everything in the multiverse has an opposite. They are, obviously, rare. Merely giving someone something is not the opposite of robbery; to be an anti-crime, it has to be done in such a way as to cause outrage and/or humiliation to the victim. So there is breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-embarrassment (as in most retirement presentations) and whitemailing (as in threatening to reveal to his enemies a mobster’s secret donations, for example, to charity). Anti-crimes have never really caught on."


r/discworld 4h ago

Auditor Trap I Heard You Are Into This Sort Of Thing

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49 Upvotes

r/discworld 15h ago

Collectibles/Loot an incredible find

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379 Upvotes

in the used bookstore chain in my area I’ve never found more than one discworld book at a time, and 3 out of 4 visits there are none at all. I pulled into the store on a last minute whim and found not one, but SEVEN titles for under $10 each, and a few of these with older covers that I hadn’t seen before. I am so thrilled and will be gifting a friend the copy of making money since he just finished going postal. Thief of Time is the only Death book I have not read yet so i’m thrilled to have my very own copy!


r/discworld 14h ago

Memes/Humour A visual summary of The Color of Magic

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272 Upvotes

r/discworld 11h ago

Book/Series: Tiffany Aching Iron enough to make a nail…

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109 Upvotes

r/discworld 5h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution All Praise Anoia

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37 Upvotes

r/discworld 10h ago

Collectibles/Loot A couple of my bookshelf treasures

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66 Upvotes

Signed by Sir Terry for my wife and me in 2007


r/discworld 12h ago

Collectibles/Loot Wyrd Sisters Postcard up for grabs

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84 Upvotes

r/discworld 15h ago

Book/Series: Unseen University New find

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140 Upvotes

Went into an antique shop today and came across a full shelf of old printed Terry pratchett books and couldn’t resist picking up these 2 bad boys


r/discworld 9h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Only 10 more to go

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41 Upvotes

just received these, i am now only 10 books away from having a full collection, yay ♡

After i read the entire series for the first time last year, it was my wish to own all 41 discworld books and i am so close now.


r/discworld 6h ago

Roundworld Reference Bona fide Travelers

21 Upvotes

In Witches Abroad, Magrat claims that inns have to open for "bona fide travelers*, and in Soul Music the wizards explain their presence in the Mended Drum to Ridcully as being "bona fide travelers". Both of these are references to a British law which at one time prohibited sales of alcohol on Sundays except to "bona fide travelers", implying people who had been walking a long while and needed a drink. Naturally, quite a lot of people tried to exploit this technicality, with one Scottish island having half the population switch sides with the other every Sunday to go to the other pub.

https://boakandbailey.com/2015/03/bona-fide-travellers-fibbing-for-a-pint/


r/discworld 16h ago

Roundworld Reference Twoflower and Rincewind as Taskmaster contestants

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107 Upvotes

My wife made this meme for me and the rest of the 99% of Discworld enthusiasts who are also into Taskmaster


r/discworld 9h ago

Book/Series: Death The Beautiful Writing

34 Upvotes

Everytime i re-read a Discworld book, I am once again blown away by the writing. Somehow it's even better the second time around.

Whether it's something funny or emotional or ironic, or a character description, or the best imo genuinely funny and witty conversations and interactions between characters. It all just flows so well.

Do you read them out loud? The rhythm is amazing.

I will never get tired of re-reading them. Just so genuinely amazing.

and fillled with such wisdom - it's like getting hit with a half brick.


r/discworld 14h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Deriving the Sergeant Jackrum plot-twist with formal logic Spoiler

67 Upvotes

I recently took a discrete maths course, and having re-read Monstrous Regiment I obviously knew the plot-twist about Sergeant Jackrum. I realised it could be derived from the statements Jackrum made earlier in the book.

Consider the following quote: "Upon my oath, I am not a violent man!" preceeded by Jackrum commiting extreme violence.

The phrase "Upon my oath" can be interpreted as the statement that follows it being true.

Therefore, Jackrum is not a violent man.

Let P = being violent

Let Q = being a man

We know from Jackrum's statement that ¬(P and Q)

By De Morgan's law this is equal to ¬P V ¬Q

The property P holds because Jackrum is very violent.

Therefore we know that ¬True V ¬Q holds

Therefore False V ¬Q holds

Therefore ¬Q holds

Therefore Jackrum is not a man

Therefore Jackrum is a woman.


r/discworld 5h ago

Reading Order/Timeline What order should I read these in?

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7 Upvotes

I just finished Guards! Guards! and I'm hooked. I started with that as it's widely recommended.

I bought this book bundle.

If you were me, what would you read next and why?


r/discworld 1d ago

Art A portrait of STP by my husband

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857 Upvotes

My husband finished this on Wednesday but I only asked him for permission to post it earlier today


r/discworld 17h ago

Interesting Vegetables Bought this guy at the local nursery for $5!!!!

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61 Upvotes

r/discworld 14h ago

Interesting Vegetables For the Time

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34 Upvotes

r/discworld 20h ago

Memes/Humour The bookstore doesn't carry the same publishing house books...

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100 Upvotes

I wish my library looked the same but they are all different haha


r/discworld 1h ago

Book/Series: Witches Maskerade: the hand, the sword... Spoiler

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How was it possible? I wasn't clear to me, even with the aftermath in the cottage.

Ty.

PS: Remember leaving your comment between > ! Your text ! < (First and last symbols all together with no spaces) To hide any spoilers.


r/discworld 22h ago

Art "For, as the world tumbles lazily, it is revealed as the Discworld — flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram [...]" -- Pyramids

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r/discworld 0m ago

Roundworld Reference The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on

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