Terry Pratchett - Favourite Characters!

RopeDrink

I've become more and more into The Discworld Novel with every passing day (Despite the fact that I've been a huge fan for yonks!) and read through the instructions for the game "Cripple Mister Onion" yesterday after coming across one of his MANY websites, yet I believe that the Discworld saga alone stands as one of the best works in literature to date, and is his best work without a doubt...

That said, who is your favourite character!?
There are so many to choose from...

1) Rincewind, how can you not like this unfortunate sod!
2) Death - HE TALKS LIKE THIS - THAT MUST MAKE HIM COOL
3) Detritus the Troll - Brief appearances in Soul Music (Extremely brief) and Feet Of Clay. I, as a rule, love underdog characters, and for a troll to become one of the best sergeants of the Watch (Despite being a clod) makes me lurve him!

So, who is yours then!?

Oh, and the Luggage is great!

Thanx 4 The Fish

Cohen The Barbarian - Just a dirty bastard.
Detritus - He and his crossbow feature more in Jingo.
Death - SPEAKING LIKE THIS OWNZ
The Librarian - Ook (need I say more)
The Bursar - "And now I must fly, except that I must not"

And last but far from least the beggars
"I hate bloody Golems takin' our jobs..."
"We ain't got jobs."
"See what I mean?"
"What's for supper?"
"Mud and ole boots HRRaawrk ptui!"
"Millennium hand and and shrimp I sez."
"'M glad I've got a voice. I can speak up for myself."
"It's time you fed your duck."
"What duck?"

RopeDrink

Feet Of Clay is my favourite, and that above statement was spot on and brilliant Fish. I haven't read Jingo unfortunately, but I plan to purchase every discworld novel avaliable soon - Reading was overpowered by writing when I had my PC unfortunately so I stopped my continuous TP campaign and before I knew it tonnes more of his work arrived.

Is Jingo good? I love Detritus and his weapon which had been "Converted from a seige weapon and fired a fifteen foot(?) long shaft" - Im in college, so thats off the top of my head... Rogers The Bulls was funny - "It wasn't as if Wee Mad Arthur was able to deliver a killer blow, it was the barriage of continuous and painful blows over a concentrated area"

Ph3n0m

For me it has to be, in no particular order


Death
Rincewind
The Witches (Mrs Ogg, Granny Weatherwax and Magrat)
Commander Vimes
Nobby & Sgt Colon


but there are loads more, whoa dd so much, I mean how could you not like the Auditors!!!!!

cowlren

the auditors did have the best exits in theif of time, and names come to think of it. but all the original riders of the apocalypse are pretty cool, even back in Good Omens co-writen with Neil Gammon.

but death does get the best oneliner retorts.
rincewind would be next for his survival of the unfittest techniques
after that i'd pick the druids . travel by phobia really should be looked into as a cure for todays traffic problems.

RopeDrink

Commander Vimes was brilliant, as was Vetinari in his own weird way. Was Commander Vimes in any other books bar Feet Of Clay?

DapperGent

I love the books but I don't know if I'd class them as literature....

Favorite characters:

Nanny Ogg (the hedgehog song)
The Great God Om in his guise as a tortoise (small gods is far and away his best book and the only one I would class as literature, very clever)
Nobby(card carrying member of the human race)
Death(I prefer Au Revoir)
Chancellor Ridcully and the Bursar (dried frog pills)

I fúcking hate that ape librarian and both Rincewind and the rincewind books are godawful IMHO.

RopeDrink

Are you calling "The Colour Of Magic", TP's very first step into creating the saga known as the Discworld novels... God Awful!?
Are "The Light Fantastic" and all the other Rincewind containing books Godawful!? Is anything of Terry Pratchetts godawful!?

I strongly disagree with you Dapper, but we are all entitled to our opinion.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Guards! Guards!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Maskerade
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth

Detritus' weapon does indeed fire a 15 foot bolt and is deadly at, well any range really....

Have got all books in the series, started on Reaper Man and was hooked. Have read and re-read all of the books numerous times.

Good omens isn't a disco=world book, Gaimann adds a much darker side to TP's humour which I liked alot. The riders adapting to the times in it made for a good laugh...

RopeDrink

I've only had the pleasure of reading:

The Colour Of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Carpe Jugulum
Feet Of Clay
Wyrd Sisters
Hogswatch (Or what was it? Death as Santa - That one - Funny as hell)
Reaper Man

and a few others before I dropped reading like a hot scone and started my attempts at writing.

I tried my hand at writing something TP style but failed miserably due to lack of imagination.

Thanx 4 The Fish

To write in the Tp stylee requires an imagination alright, some of the scenarios are just genius but the comedy aspect has to be there aswell. I have been sitting in an airport with people staring at me as I ROFL. Still think that the Gold song has gotta be one of the best ever written. With the volume of crap in the charts at the moment it would probably go straight in at no. 1.

cowlren

slightly off subject but it might help jog memories of characters.
interesting to see the dates.
bibliography

RopeDrink

Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold.

Dustaz

DEATH
Vetinari
The librarian

There all good in fairness, altho i really dont like Susan Sto Helit.

RopeDrink

CowIren, cheers for that - I can now conclude that:

The Colour Of magic,
The Light Fantastic,
Equal Rites,
Sourcery,
Small Gods,
Feet Of Clay,
HogFather,
Carpe Jugulum,
and The Last Hero are the one's I've read.
Gah, my memory is melting.

RopeDrink

I didn't like Susan in Soul Music, and I haven't read the other book she stars in. I don't like TwoFlower much either.

Whatever happened to Hrun The Barbarian!?
After T.C.O.M I haven't heard of him since!?

cowlren

Not much to like about two flower really, tourists are never popular (except for the money -thats where the luggage comes in), you even feel half guilty when you are one.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Haven't heard from Hruin since, as for Susan, she is in the Hogfather I think and she plays a big part in the Thief of time. Her character is fleshed out a bit and so a bit more likable insomuch as Death's daughter can be...

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold.

I think that was the first verse, the chorus really makes the song though...

Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold,
Gold, Gold, Gold.

Xterminator

Cohan the barbarian!
(Interesting Times)
Hehe .. he was good.

X

smiles

Edit: My favourite character would have to be Carrot I love that guy.

Hmmm..... lets see what i've read:

Non-Discworld:
The Carpet People
Only You Can Save Mankind
Good Omens

Discword:
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Pyramids
Eric
Moving Pictures
Witches Abroad
Lords and Ladies
Men At Arms
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
Carpe Jugulum

Also:
The Discworld Companion

I think we can safely say I like his books

ere, whats the different between erotic and kinky?
Erotic is when you use a feather

Kinky is when you use the whole chicken

<< Fio >>

DapperGent

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Are you calling "The Colour Of Magic", TP's very first step into creating the saga known as the Discworld novels... God Awful!?

Yes.

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Are "The Light Fantastic" and all the other Rincewind containing books Godawful!?

Yes.

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Is anything of Terry Pratchetts godawful!?

Good lord yes.

Originally posted by RopeDrink
I strongly disagree with you Dapper, but we are all entitled to our opinion.

It's life's rich pagent isn't it?
Seriously though as you go back and reread them fondly you'll see that a good many of the books are very weak. When Terry Pratchett is on form he is one of my favorite authors I do think he's written some terrible books though. And I think he's written too many of them.

RopeDrink

Hey Fio, I never figured you to be a Pratchett Sort!

smiles

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Hey Fio, I never figured you to be a Pratchett Sort!

Ah, how could you say that? You dont really know me at all so!

The Colour of Magic & The Light Fanatastic.... while great books when you read them first... .they quickly fade to nothingness in comparrison to the rest of the books.

<< Fio >>

deco

Does anyone on the lit boards read or discuss anything other than Terry Prachett???

I mean people are always yapping on about him....

He's good but does he really deserve this much atttention?

He's nothing compared to Dogulas Adams...

And btw...my favourite book is Small Gods, closely followed by Mort...:)

RopeDrink

My father and Duggy Adams were aquainted, and for very strange circumstances.

Cake Fiend

Death or Crowley.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

rincewind would have to be my fav

followed by.. ermm.. the death of rats I guess, and then sam vimes

fav book is either good omens *just cos it's so readable*, or small gods.

the worst thing about the discworld books for me though, is that I've read them all about 5 times.. so It gets a tad annoying to re-read them all the time.. and some of his newer ones aren't great either

RopeDrink

Death or Crowley

His Guitar.

Nevyn

hmmmmm let me have another bananananan dacyri and decide


It has to Mrs Gytha Ogg, then Magrat, then COhen's daughter the hairdresser with tthe deadiest siccors.

In order of preference the witches books
The death books
The guards

Rincewind only has one joke and thats running




A wizzards staff has a knob on its end, a knob on it's end a knob on it's end ..........................

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by RopeDrink
My father and Duggy Adams were aquainted, and for very strange circumstances.

[Swallow bait] How so ?? [/Swallow Bait]

Funky

all of the guards just rock in my opinion

Cake Fiend

The Luggage also pwns meh.

lordsippa

Favourite characters:
Rincewind
Gaspode
Reg Shoe
The Bursar
Ponder Stibbons
Hex
THE DEAN!!!!

read all his Discworld novels <almost all in order> up to Fifth Elephant.. probably should get The Truth and Thief of Time and all the misc Discwold stuff...

Favourite would have to be Small Gods.

AND Good Omens RULES SUPREME! Can't wait for the film <Terry Gilliam directing so you know it's gonna be GOOOOOOOD>!

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Death

He's probably the greatest character in any book ever, with the exception of O'Brien from 1984. O'Brien can make people not exist, but Death comes close. Oh, and Marvin, the original Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker books.

I reread Thief of Time a few days ago, it's still brilliant, with funny names like "Taupe" and "Tangerine", and speaking of colours as names, a know-it-all called Vincent.

I heard from an acquaintance (not a friend, I hasten to add) that they wanted to make a film of Mort, but to make it happier, shinier, and more crowd-friendly, they wanted to remove Death. Hmmmm.

Blitzkrieger

Vimes owns!
Death is a great straight man for Albert.
Nanny's funny most of the time.
What's her name in Strata was good too.

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Commander Vimes was brilliant, as was Vetinari in his own weird way. Was Commander Vimes in any other books bar Feet Of Clay?

Not sure how many books Commander Vimes is in (I think only 1), but Samuel Vimes features in in loads :

Guards! Guards!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth

Originally posted by Thanx 4 The Fish
To write in the Tp stylee requires an imagination alright, some of the scenarios are just genius but the comedy aspect has to be there aswell.

His themes are ripped off, mostly from classical literature, but what he does with them is genius.

Beruthiel

Death is by far my favourite too, my favourite book being 'Mort', it really tickled my funny bone when he went fly fishing

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by Blitzkrieger
Vimes owns!

Not sure how many books Commander Vimes is in (I think only 1), but Samuel Vimes features in in loads :

Guards! Guards!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth

Commander Vimes and Samuel Vimes are one and the same man.