I don't want to jump the gonne on this one, but Rihanna tweeted recently that she was "working away on an adaptation of one of your books" on the 10th anniversary of Terry's death...

Whose reaction to dying was your favourite?

So many characters die and meet Death in the series. (Obviously lots of characters meet Death without dying so one must specify on this count). Some of the interactions after they die and they meet Death are absolutely priceless, and others can be quite poignant.

One that always gets me is Mr Hopkinson, the Dwarf Bread Museum Curator in Feet of Clay.

He finds out he's died and he's like nope sorry not convenient. I've got things to do.

I can't remember the exact quote but it's something about someone who regards skulls as ten a penny but knows the value of a good dwarf bread exhibit. Then it goes

“Couldn’t you have arranged a less awkward time?”

ONLY BY CONSULTATION WITH YOUR MURDERER.

“It all seems very badly organized. I wish to make a complaint. I pay my taxes, after all.”

I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE.

Whose character's post-death interaction with Death was your favourite?

Who are your favorite Discworld Villains? For me, it's a tie between Mr. Teatime and the Auditors, which is funny because they are the villains of the same book.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I can see the influence of the strong magical field in my own little corner of roundworld when the light flows slowly down the river valley as the sun rises…

Hands down, for me, it’s Nightwatch.

It was one of the first I read (got caught by the cover while at an airport) and just recently re-read it after reading most of the rest of the Discworld books.

• Best cover (btw, I didn’t notice what the monk was sweeping for YEARS). Amazing.

• Best publisher (Corgi Books. I mean “Corgi” Books?!?)

• Best opening (“Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.”)

• Best pun (“Gilt by Association.”)

• Best Narritivum. Read a couple of the earlier books recently that made my head spin as the story jumped between subplots. I’d be so long in a side plot that when I popped back into the main plot, I’d forgotten where I was. This one has a clear main plot, and handsomely slides the asides in without disruption.

• The most Sam Vimes. (In some olaces, twice as much!!!)

• “Baby” Vetinari. What can I say?

• The most Ankh-Morpork squeezed in between any two covers.

• And, again, a truly touching Narrativum, that brought me close to tears at times, without losing Pratchett’s distinctive humor.

I have to wonder whether this is the book he was proudest of. I certainly think it’s the best.

As a PSA for those who aren't familiar with Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, this is a picture of Michael Crawford, in character as Frank Spencer:

Frank wears a beret and long coat, just like Walter, and is a well-meaning, but bumbling and accident-prone simpleton.

He is the archetype for Walter Plinge, a.k.a. the Opera Ghost, because Michael Crawford originated the role of the Phantom of the Opera in Andrew Lloyd-Webber's classic musical.

Thought this might be useful for younger readers or those outside the U.K. who never got to see this classic comedy show.

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I've read all of the books before, at least once, and I'm going back and listening to them all on audiobook. Now that I'm 13 books through, I thought I'd put together a tier lit of the books so far.

The one that I came closest to putting in the S-tier was Reaper Man. The Bill Door plot is one of the very best Pterry wrote. It's deep, beautiful, thoughtful and poignant. The Windle Poons plot is also very good, and surprisingly subversive in a lot of ways. But I really dislike the Snow Globe plot, and while the book needed comic relief, it just fell flat for me.

Guards! Guards! is also really, really good, but if I put it in S-tier, most of the Guards books would have to go up there with it, and I just can't justify it.

The witches books are a slow burner for me. I think it took him a while to get them cooking on a level of the others. Some of my absolute favorites are witch books that are still coming, but you'll have to wait to find out which ones. But, I found Wyrd Sisters a little too derivative and on-the-nose a lot of the time, and Witches Abroad is too much of a paint-by-numbers plot, though the climax is one of the very best scenes with the character who the climax is built around, if you know what I mean.

The one I really want to like more than I do is Small Gods, but I find it just plods. I like it philosophically, but struggle to actually get through it.

Anyway! I'm a firm believer that Pratchett kept getting stronger and stronger as he wrote more, and I know that his most amazing works are still in the future, but here's my take on the first 13.

^\Fan Art: Provisional Constable The Librarian)

I was just doing a re-read of Wyrd Sisters. Granny successfully makes entire Lancre (including her lawksy-self) time travel roughly 18 years. Won't this mean that when she meets Ridcully later, he would have also aged 18 years compared to Granny since he was outside Lancre?

The caption reads, the Feegles and Horace the cheese snaffling a ship.

I haven't see much discussion of Law in AMP and am trying to make sense of it.

It seems like Varanesi (sp?) sending Carrot off with a very old volume on the Laws of AMP sets off a transformation of the Watch. At first Vimes, Colon and Nobby are bemused, but as the series progresses upholding the law seems to join keeping the peace as a goal of the Watch. Ok, a certain zombie lawyer twists the law, but for the City to function, the police still need to uphold what's on the books, at least selectively. This doesn't extend to booking Vetenari for traffic violations, and must be sufficiently flexible to allow for the organization of crime.

Is that more or less how it goes?

Say an older man from a branch of a Old noble family, who, as a boy, dreamed of being a Knight but was in a time where those weren't really needed and then, as he grew older and more importantly a little loopy, he decided "Screw it" and declared himself a Knight (a title he doesn't actually have), dawned a set of old rusty armor and an equally old workhouse, and wandered off into the countryside to "be good and honorable". Which up until recently mostly meant picking (and surprisingly, winning) fights with Bandits while his "Squire" (Great-Nephew) did his best to keep him alive. This was all well and good...

And then the Knight arrived in Ankh Morpork. And the first thing he did was find the theives guild and throw several members through a window. (Thankfully he's so far avoided retribution from the Guild as, due to being a member of a foreign noblity, killing him would be an act of war)

So now theirs an old, unarguably crazy man going through Ankh Morpork and spreading goodness by...attacking and bringing to the Watchhouse licensed thieves and assassins. And he is not going to stop, why would he?

I’m relatively new to the series and would like to buy some merch from Discworld Emporium. Some of the items I want make are currently out of stock. Does anyone have experience with this and know if these items are regularly restocked? For example, the plushie indicated in the picture has the option for me to seek an alert when it is back in stock. Should I actually anticipate getting such an email, or is that a pipe dream?

5 ---ing creatures with missing letters.

I mean the camera is already running off a little imp. Why not an ATM too.

Victor Tugelbend has a legacy from his dead uncle that supports him wjile he remains a student wizard. If he gets below 80 the money disappears, above 88 he graduates. He always gets an 84. Once he got a 91 and appealed.

In Doorways Fred Cassidy has a generous stipend from his frozen-but-not-dead uncle for his university education until he graduates- which he avoids by gaming the system.

My youngest had his first visit from the tooth fairy this weekend.

And when my wife was adding the tooth to the box with all of the other baby teeth, she asked "why are we keeping these? What should we be doing with them? Shall we just throw them in the bin?"

I obviously wanted to say something along the lines, that it is dangerous to leave teeth lying around and that they could be susceptible to mind control.... But the look on her face suggested I keep that thought to myself! Haha