Are there are any bad ones?

Brow

I'm gradually reading his books from and have yet to read one I havnt liked. Thinking about it I'd probably say Equal Rights was the weakest so far but I still enjoyed it. Is here any books that arent really that good?

JohnK

I though the monster regiment one was fairly crap to be honest. It just never captured me and I cant imagine ever reading it again which for me is a very rare thing. Usually I read books 4-5 times each.

Fysh

Monstruous regiment, the truth, going postal...none of them are awful, they just re-tread old and safe ground rather than doing anything interesting and new. I didn't notice with any of them until I tried to re-read them, then I found that I just didn't care.

OfflerCrocGod

Like JohnK I always re-read his books a few times but Monstrous Regiment is one I probably will never re-read. Just not that interestingo or captivating.

Dar

There are no bad discworld books, just books that arn't as good as the rest.

Tar.Aldarion

no bad ones.

Mark

Not a Discworld but Strata was ludicrously bad

Estragon

Well Eric will never get into any Top Ten lists. Very childish, though I don't know maybe that was deliberate. Not surprising it doesn't get a normal cover though...(they're trying to hide it)

Branoic

Yeah, "Eric" is the unwanted bastard child of the Discworld series. I didn't think it was too bad to be honest, but i probably was a good bit younger when i read it.

In my opinion, The Fifth Elephant is really quite bad. I didn't find it funny at all. That's not too bad, because there are a couple of other Discworld books i didn't find too funny but did find very clever. The Fifth Elephant was neither, unfortunately.

Hopeless

I didn't really like Equal Rites or The Truth.
Still, they are just a little worse then the rest, enjoyable enough.

doctor evil

The Truth I found to be quite poor, Going Postal wasn`t too bad though nothing special. TBH the Discworld theme is becoming quite milked and tired.

IceDavid

I can't say any of them are bad. Actually, I enjoy them all, even if some of them don't do anything " new "

I rather enjoyed Going Postal. It encouraged me to respect the work of postmen everywhere.

Oh, and the little stamps in the cover are lovely.

Cake Fiend

Mark wrote:

Not a Discworld but Strata was ludicrously bad

Not as bad as Dark Side of the Sun :eek:

regeneration

To be honest, Im not sure I'll be picking up his latest one - Going Postal's stream of pointless cameos from other AnkhMorpork characters has made me jaded; the insistence on sticking with the same-bloody-characters each time is beginning to make the Discworld well look rather dry. Monstrous Regiment was a good idea spoiled by going flat about half way through the book.

Plus for a city of supposedly a million people, parading out the same line of 6/7/8 characters + the odd new one + a token villian just makes the whole thing seem rather small, cliquey & parochial.

When I heard the latest book would be another Vimes novel, my heart actually sank. Do I love Sam Vimes? Ab-so-lutely, but I don't want ANOTHER book of 1 man in a vast and rich world being left to rot...