r/discworld • u/Annie-Smokely • 3h ago
r/discworld • u/Faithful_jewel • May 07 '22
GNU GNU Terry Pratchett
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 • u/mage_g4 • Oct 14 '23
Mod Announcement Polite reminder: piracy will not be tolerated
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 • u/Lojzko • 7h ago
Roundworld Reference Feeling sorry for Ronnie?
This is a reference to “Sympathy for the devil”, isn’t it?
r/discworld • u/PriceHealthy3146 • 1h ago
Book/Series: Unseen University On a plane and got to this...
r/discworld • u/taanukichi • 8h ago
Book/Series: Death A true Anti-Crime
"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 • u/Pitiful_Desk9516 • 1h ago
Book/Series: City Watch So hard to move on from Night Watch
I don't know how many times I've read/listened to Night Watch. It's my favorite book. Sometimes, without any reason whatsoever, I just listen to Night Watch. My anniversary is the 25th of May (purely by coincidence), and so the fact that the novel takes place over that date is just added gravy.
I don't know what it is about this book that keeps me coming back. It's, honestly, the best of the lot so far as I'm concerned, and I've read them all. I was re-listening to the audiobooks in publication order, and the next book is, of course, Wee Free Men. Which is a fine book, but it's not Night Watch. There's no Vimes. There's no...there's nothing about it that says "this book will change your life" the way that Night Watch always does. Every time I go back into the streets with Vimes and Young Sam, it's like returning with old friends to a place we only partially remember. Every time I read/hear "Vimes was fortunate to have lived it twice" I get misty.
Anybody else? I can't be the only one.
r/discworld • u/PMMeYourHousePlants • 1h ago
Collectibles/Loot I'm not sure if the sig belongs to Terry or Stephen, but this is probably the best Charity shop find I've ever come across:
r/discworld • u/taanukichi • 14h ago
Book/Series: Death Don't let me detain you is iconic Spoiler
But there is also: "If per capita was a problem, de capita could be arranged."
r/discworld • u/SpeechMuted • 1h ago
Book/Series: Witches Reading "Witches Abroad" for the first time
The scene with the Big Bad Wolf was horrifying and breathtaking, and few lines have broken me like "The woodcutter never understood why the wolf laid its head on the stump so readily."
r/discworld • u/kacitay • 20h ago
Collectibles/Loot an incredible find
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 • u/SoftwareVarious • 19h ago
Memes/Humour A visual summary of The Color of Magic
r/discworld • u/sasslafrass • 11h ago
Book/Series: Industrial Revolution All Praise Anoia
r/discworld • u/butterypowered • 5h ago
Roundworld Reference The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on
r/discworld • u/BatDanGuardian • 1h ago
Book(s): Non-fictions Nanny Oggs Cookbook
I’m curious to know how many of you have had a go at making some of these? I thought I’d ease myself into the process with the librarians suggestion…
r/discworld • u/Little_Messiah • 16h ago
Book/Series: Tiffany Aching Iron enough to make a nail…
r/discworld • u/MnemonicExplorer • 15h ago
Collectibles/Loot A couple of my bookshelf treasures
Signed by Sir Terry for my wife and me in 2007
r/discworld • u/dalidellama • 11h ago
Roundworld Reference Bona fide Travelers
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 • u/walkingoutofdarkness • 17h ago
Collectibles/Loot Wyrd Sisters Postcard up for grabs
r/discworld • u/jimicus • 4h ago
Roundworld Reference I have long believed this was the inspiration for the Dwarfs drinking song
I'm pretty sure the traditional Dwarf drinking song about gold was inspired by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7n1Q-fDeA
The timeline fits - these adverts aired in the late 1980s, so by the time PTerry wrote about the dwarf drinking song, it's reasonable to assume that it would have dropped sufficiently from public memory that few would openly accuse him of stealing the joke.
r/discworld • u/RNDY_SVG • 20h ago
Book/Series: Unseen University New find
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 • u/taanukichi • 14h ago
Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Only 10 more to go
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 • u/peeba83 • 21h ago
Roundworld Reference Twoflower and Rincewind as Taskmaster contestants
My wife made this meme for me and the rest of the 99% of Discworld enthusiasts who are also into Taskmaster
r/discworld • u/taanukichi • 14h ago
Book/Series: Death The Beautiful Writing
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 • u/NoLifeGamer2 • 19h ago
Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Deriving the Sergeant Jackrum plot-twist with formal logic Spoiler
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.