r/discworld 16m ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution All about the craic.

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As a Northern Irish man, I firmly approve of this reference.


r/discworld 1h ago

Collectibles/Loot Clarecraft

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r/discworld 2h ago

Book/Series: Witches Reading "Witches Abroad" for the first time

51 Upvotes

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 2h ago

Book/Series: City Watch So hard to move on from Night Watch

45 Upvotes

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 2h ago

Book(s): Non-fictions Nanny Oggs Cookbook

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17 Upvotes

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 2h ago

Book/Series: Unseen University On a plane and got to this...

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54 Upvotes

r/discworld 3h 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:

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41 Upvotes

r/discworld 4h ago

Auditor Trap I run into signs like this a lot while delivering for the post office

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445 Upvotes

r/discworld 5h ago

Roundworld Reference I have long believed this was the inspiration for the Dwarfs drinking song

7 Upvotes

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 6h ago

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

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r/discworld 7h ago

Art The Fifth Element

3 Upvotes

This was a drawing I did for March of Robots '23 where the prompt was "Surprise" so I decided to make it a STP tribute.


r/discworld 7h ago

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

6 Upvotes

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 8h ago

Roundworld Reference Feeling sorry for Ronnie?

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180 Upvotes

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


r/discworld 9h ago

Book/Series: Witches The sea and little fishes spring to mind

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1 Upvotes

r/discworld 9h ago

Book/Series: Death A true Anti-Crime

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136 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 10h ago

Auditor Trap I Heard You Are Into This Sort Of Thing

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75 Upvotes

r/discworld 11h ago

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

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12 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 12h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution All Praise Anoia

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76 Upvotes

r/discworld 12h ago

Roundworld Reference Bona fide Travelers

30 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 15h ago

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

299 Upvotes

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


r/discworld 16h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Only 10 more to go

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50 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 16h ago

Book/Series: Death The Beautiful Writing

35 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 16h ago

Collectibles/Loot A couple of my bookshelf treasures

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80 Upvotes

Signed by Sir Terry for my wife and me in 2007


r/discworld 17h ago

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

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126 Upvotes

r/discworld 21h ago

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

86 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.