Terry Pratchett (was: Smell of Cabbage)

[Amy Z]

I just have to say that I love the title of this thread.

Abigail, you did a great and amusing job summing up the DW threads, 
and you also share my tastes remarkably.  E.g. I agree that 
Interesting Times is by far the best of the Rincewind books.

The Truth is a tough one to categorize, I agree.  If you think of 
the City Watch thread as being about Patrician-related plots, yes, 
it fits in; and it's set in Ankh-Morpork and has the crime and 
mystery feel; but what puts most of the City Watch books in my top 
10 is Vimes et alia, and you don't get to spend much time with them 
in The Truth.  You don't even get much of Vetinari.  It's 
interesting to read about them as minor characters, though.

If you're dipping a toe into the waters of the Discworld, the 
important thing to know is that even the one-offs aren't one-offs.  
They all fit into the same world, and it's fun to see characters 
whom you know well from one book just passing through another; 
Death, for example, stars in only a handful but appears in almost 
all [all? someone must know] of them, appropriately enough.  Small 
Gods is my favorite and I would probably love it even if I hadn't 
read any of the others, but it's richer for its slight connections 
to the rest of the series.

I like the way the monks are becoming more prominent, having played 
important roles in three novels now.  They're great.  Qu made me 
LMAO, and I'm not even a Bond fan.  So, if you're into Zen, Taoism, 
other paradox-rich philosophies, and/or parodies thereof, try Small 
Gods, Thief of Time, or Night Watch.  (A new DW thread:  the Zen 
thread?)

Amy Z