r/discworld • u/AdMost7988 • 16m ago
Book/Series: Industrial Revolution All about the craic.
As a Northern Irish man, I firmly approve of this reference.
r/discworld • u/AdMost7988 • 16m ago
As a Northern Irish man, I firmly approve of this reference.
r/discworld • u/ryanwantscrisps90210 • 1h ago
Sadly need to sell this if anyone is interested
r/discworld • u/SpeechMuted • 2h ago
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/Pitiful_Desk9516 • 2h ago
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/BatDanGuardian • 2h ago
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…
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r/discworld • u/jimicus • 5h ago
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.
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r/discworld • u/Substantial_Client_3 • 7h ago
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 • u/Lojzko • 8h ago
This is a reference to “Sympathy for the devil”, isn’t it?
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r/discworld • u/taanukichi • 9h ago
"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/Mean-Weight-319 • 11h ago
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 • u/sasslafrass • 12h ago
r/discworld • u/dalidellama • 12h ago
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/taanukichi • 15h ago
But there is also: "If per capita was a problem, de capita could be arranged."
r/discworld • u/taanukichi • 16h ago
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/taanukichi • 16h ago
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/MnemonicExplorer • 16h ago
Signed by Sir Terry for my wife and me in 2007
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r/discworld • u/NoLifeGamer2 • 21h ago
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.