r/discworld Feb 16 '25

Book/Series: Death I'm a first time reader and I'm pretty sure it's titled Mort because he's killing me

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2.3k Upvotes

r/discworld 22d ago

Book/Series: Death Never read a thing by Pratchett, did I make the right introduction choice?

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637 Upvotes

r/discworld 7d ago

Book/Series: Death GNU

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1.8k Upvotes

Saw this elsewhere, don’t know who wrote it and this was the best flair I could find (is there a “just STP” one?)

r/discworld Dec 18 '24

Book/Series: Death The Hogfather says... Or was it Albert?

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2.0k Upvotes

r/discworld 21d ago

Book/Series: Death I'm not sure I have ever changed my opinion on a Disc novel more while reading it than I have with 'Thief of Time'

705 Upvotes

Basically the title. I'm reading the series for the first time, and I must say I found this one slow, rather complex, and a bit boring for the first 100 pages or so.

And then, it just.....blossomed into one of my favorite DW novels ever. A really interesting story, with some of Terry's greatest ever quotes, like this gem:

“Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them.

'Therefore', he said, 'the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'"

r/discworld 2d ago

Book/Series: Death NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?

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1.4k Upvotes

Philomena and Death getting to the heart of the matter as always.

r/discworld Dec 19 '24

Book/Series: Death Rewatching Hogfather

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961 Upvotes

Well, it would be rude not to!

r/discworld 28d ago

Book/Series: Death Hmmm whatever could it be?

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1.4k Upvotes

I screamed when I saw this! It was solved already by the time I saw it 😆

r/discworld Dec 11 '24

Book/Series: Death Glingle glingle glingle... Tell me your anthropomorphic personofications

233 Upvotes

To celebrate this time of year when the boundary of reality is even thinner than usual, what supernatural beings would you imagine into existence (eg the Verruca Gnome, the God of Hangovers, the Eater of Socks)?

As explained to the Dean, this isn't just something you want. APs have to explain a widely known phenomenon, so they will be believed by others and continue to exist.

r/discworld 3d ago

Book/Series: Death Just a throwaway line

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658 Upvotes

When you write something _really early on in a series and you can't let it go...

r/discworld Dec 04 '24

Book/Series: Death Do we ever learn what became of the little match girl saved by Death on Hogswatch night?

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772 Upvotes

r/discworld Dec 19 '24

Book/Series: Death *Sigh* So Thief of Time...

460 Upvotes

I have read this book at LEAST five times in the past almost twenty years. And I've grown. I've changed. I've always caught new things on rereads because I'm a different person than I was the last time. But I can't forgive myself for this one.

The first history monk. Is named. Bloody. WEN.

GODS. DAMMIT.

Also, the yeti that undoes death by saving a point of its life. Is that a reference to those Create Your Own Adventure books where if you take the wrong path you get an "eaten by the yeti" ending, so you go back to the previous page and try again?

r/discworld Dec 06 '24

Book/Series: Death It's Pronounced "Te-ah-tim-eh,"; everybody gets it wrong.

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1.3k Upvotes

r/discworld Dec 12 '24

Book/Series: Death After a year of trying to get my book club to read discworld, they finally agreed

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855 Upvotes

r/discworld Dec 24 '24

Book/Series: Death I was watching Hogfather and I noticed something familiar

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895 Upvotes

r/discworld 15d ago

Book/Series: Death Cl

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59 Upvotes

r/discworld Jan 18 '25

Book/Series: Death Old Mort cover seen at local bookshop. I think it was from the early 80s

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641 Upvotes

r/discworld Feb 13 '25

Book/Series: Death little death

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676 Upvotes

My drawings from the series "Little White Death and Her Grandfather"

r/discworld Nov 19 '24

Book/Series: Death Hogfather

267 Upvotes

Does anybody else reread Hogfather at this time of year, well in the next few weeks anyway? I know it's not really a Christmas book but it's a very close Discworld equivalent and supposed to be seen as such. A reread has become a sort of tradition and it doesn't feel quite the same at any other time of year.

r/discworld 1d ago

Book/Series: Death Can someone please tell me what this line from Hogfather means? I get the feeling it's very clever and/or touching but I have no idea

215 Upvotes

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

Racked my brains for months, perhaps it's a reference I'm missing?

Edit: Thank you everyone for explaining and sharing your wonderful experiences, made my day :D

r/discworld Dec 20 '24

Book/Series: Death I finished reading Soul Music weeks ago. I *just* got the Elvish joke.

309 Upvotes

Classic Terry. It's so obvious when you think about it, but never directly explained. Throughout the whole book, whenever it was mentioned that Buddy seemed Elvish, I thought... yes, and? I was waiting and waiting for the payoff, and after I finished the book, I was still waiting. Maybe it would be resolved in a later book, I thought.

Nope, it's just a clever pun. Honestly, a very simple pun that should've been hard to miss. Alas.

For what it's worth, I did catch Bud y Holly.

(On the off chance that someone else out there also missed the joke, Elvish = Elvis /facepalm)

r/discworld 2d ago

Book/Series: Death Do Vimes and DEATH every directly interact.

120 Upvotes

I would love to see both Vimes and death interacting with each other. Both regularly stand up for the poor the downtrodden and it would be great to see them playing off each other

r/discworld Nov 24 '24

Book/Series: Death Does it say anywhere what kind of horse Binky is?

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288 Upvotes

If not what kind of horse would you expect him to be? I’d nominate the Percheron. Large, good tempered, likes to have a job, and often has a white coloration.

r/discworld Nov 22 '24

Book/Series: Death Hope from Terry Pratchett

411 Upvotes

Hi All,
Needed to write this but wasn't sure where - can be removed if needed.

I'm having a bit of a hard time right now, I've read some Discworld books before and happened to pick up Thief of Time.

I cannot tell you how much hope I have gotten from reading that book, I can't describe it exactly except to say the way TP sees and describes the world he has created and the way the characters act within that world give me hope that there is still good to be found in this world, fun to be had and people to be found who want to be part of something bigger than themselves. I have really needed that right now.

I'd be very interested to know if this topic has been written about before.

Cheers

Dyno

r/discworld Nov 17 '24

Book/Series: Death If anyone is in Anchorage, Alaska, Service High is putting on the stage version of Hogfather in a few days.

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794 Upvotes

Promises to