DISCWORLD - which storyline is your favourite?

Poll approved by TheBoogieMan

Key to the abbreviations:

COM - The Colour of Magic
LF - The Light Fantastic
ER - Equal Rites
M - Mort
S - Sourcery
WS - Wyrd Sisters
GG - Guards! Guards!
RM - Reaper Man
WA - Witches Abroad
MAA - Men at Arms
FOC - Feet of Clay
H - Hogfather
NW - Night Watch
WFM - The Wee Free Men
HFS - A Hat Full of Sky
W - Wintersmith


And yes, I'm well aware that some of these storylines overlap...

 

So hard to choose between Watch, Wizards and Death...Death is my favourite character but I'm not sure he has my favourite storylines...

 

I can't decide between the Watch and Death. Because Death's just insanely cool. I'm leaning towards the Watch though because Captain Carrot's awesome.

 

Ah ... so hard ... tie between the wizards and the Watch, but I went for the Watch because overall, their books feel more accomplished - the wizards are in a lot of the early ones, when Pratchett was still developing a style, but the Watch's books are largely awesome. Men At Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Night Watch, Thud! - the only Watch book that could even remotely be called substandard is Guards! Guards!, and even that's pretty darn good.

 

Absolutely Death Stories...

He's the funniest of the whole bunch...

And I'm sure he would agree with me...

-I_H

 

I should have said Night Watch, but I said other because my favorite character is Moist Von Lipwig from Going Postal. That's my favorite one so far.

 

^ Mr. Lipwig deserves several more books. He's just such an awesome character.

 

Nice to see that the City Watch is winning! And I absolutely agree with Lucozade_Skywalker - this storyline certainly shows the most character and plot development. The wizards books are fun, because they're such a hilarious bunch, but the plot is not half as well developed as in the City Watch stories (my favourites are Night Watch - well, duh, see my signature... - and Feet of Clay and Thud!). And also Lord Vetinari is a prominent character in those books, and I absolutely looooooove Vetinari!

But I debated voting for Death stories, too, because I love Death as well, he's such a lovely character, how he's trying to understand humanity and be nice... And Susan is an uber-cool character.

So my most favourite characters are Lord Vetinari ( ), Death, Susan, Sam Vimes, Granny Weatherwax... and I'm a big fan of Carrot+Angua. I hope Pratchett gets them married soon!

Oh, and Lucozade_Skywalker: Mr. Lipwig is certainly a promising character, and there will be definitely more books about him - in fact, the next book in the series, Making Money is a Moist von Lipwig book. Should come soon, hopefully.

 

Disc-what?

 

Blasphemy!

 

Shame on you!



Really, you're missing a fantastic series, full of great humour, parodies on fantasy and real world in general, and lots of brilliant dialogue.

 

I'll remember that.

 

I've only discovered Discworld recently, and since so far I've only read Pyramids, Mort, and Reaper Man, I'm going to have to go with the Death stories. I'm sure I'll love the others just as much once I get into them, though.

 

(Now unbanned and back to my regular account)

Vetinari is awesome. I always imagine Alan Rickman playing him for some reason ...

That's the best news I've heard in a while. Wonderful. Sounds like it's going to be about Mr. Lipwig's adventures at the Royal Mint . . . I presume he got that job handed to him after Reacher Gilt, er, declined.

 

So I ended up voting for the city watch. But I still <3 Death.

 

Whaaat? Alan Rickman as Vetinari?? No. Way. Sorry. I like him as Snape in HP, but he's way too old and grey and wrinkly for Vetinari. And he's not thin enough. It's hard to think of a good actor for him, but I think with proper make up and costume, Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn't be that bad...

Of course, Paul Kidby gets him perfect...

Yep. And judging by the ending of Thud!, I'm very much convinced that there might be a subplot about Ankh-Morpork getting Underground. I mean: existing network of dwarf-built tunnels under A-M + the circle-and-bar mark of the mines + fast-moving carriages powered by perpetuum-mobile-like Devices + Vetinari's genius = well, you should get the picture.

 

I'm disappointed to see the 'Disc-what?' category is currently winning...

Personally, I love the Unseen University faculty, and Death is always fun but the Watch wins my vote. The supporting cast of Carrot, Nobby, Fred, Detritus, Cheery etc are top-notch, but it's Vimes who's the show-stopper. Without a doubt he's Pratchett's best and most-developed character. Feet of Clay and Night Watch are two of my favourite reads. Ever.

 

Mine, too! And I absolutely agree about Vimes. He's an awesome and incredibly real and human character. And to think that Pratchett originally didn't intend to keep Vimes in command at all - he was supposed to retire and Carrot was supposed to take the lead. Funny, eh?

 

City Watch for sure.

I also still think thew Discworld computer game is one of best games ever by the way.

 

I have no clue what the hell this Discworld that everyone's talking about is.

 

SQUEAK.

 

Witches stories.

 

Disc-what??

 

Disc-wha??