Terry Pratchett Fans?

[SShack]

Before he was usurped by Rowling, Pratchett was England's most beloved fantasy writer and has a huge following here in the states. Being a fantasy gamer but also a huge fan of satire and a libertarian, he's one of my favorite writers.

Anybody also read him?

[DeadSpace]

Yep. love his work. Delightfully...warped ;D

[Likethewind]

I like him. His sense of humour is.. specific and unquestionably enjoyable. At least for me. My favourite character is, of course, Mr. Death. Got to love Death of Rats as well.

[Haphazard]

I like him. His sense of humour is.. specific and unquestionably enjoyable. At least for me. My favourite character is, of course, Mr. Death. Got to love Death of Rats as well.

Death is also my favorite character from Discworld. I love the books but unfortunately I haven't read too many of them...

[BadMojo]

I love Pratchett's books. They are so damn funny on so many levels.

Rincewind: I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet! I'm afraid of grounds.
Conina: You mean heights. And stop being silly.
Rincewind: I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!

[Likethewind]

Heh. Quoting...('PS: I wasn't kidding with these druids' - the prophecy thing was ridiculously great... Poor Rincewind.)

[Lucan]

I love his books and there are so many good characters. My favourite one is Death, poor fellow, so misunderstood. Also the Librarian, The Luggage, Rincewind and the Witches cat, can't remember the cat's name.

[ShaiGar]

Greebo.

I miss Esme. She's the sort of INTJ I would not have minded getting to know when she was younger... Or even now, I like the older ladies.

[Lucan]

Thanks. Been bugging me today, don't you hate it when you can remember all the details except the name?:suspicious:

[tazmaniantigres]

My favorite quote:

'The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.'

[SShack]

The Patrician has a great collection of quotes. I love his entire attitude. I'd gauge him as ENTJ. He doesn't really seem "outgoing," but he seems to bounce ideas off people (especially his "prisoner," Leonardo de Quirm) and though he pretends that he isn't interested in the opinions of others, he certainly seems to find away to create a consensus somehow.

I think almost all of Pratchett's major characters are NTs, at least the ones who "save the day" at the end of the book. I think Vimes is a major exception as a "streetwise" ST, and even he has moments of intuitiveness.

I didn't really think I'd like some of his newer characters, but Moist Von Lipwig (ENTP) and his cranky fiancee (ironically named) Adora Dearhart (INTJ) have really grown on me.

[Lucid]

The Patrician has a great collection of quotes. I love his entire attitude. I'd gauge him as ENTJ. He doesn't really seem "outgoing," but he seems to bounce ideas off people (especially his "prisoner," Leonardo de Quirm) and though he pretends that he isn't interested in the opinions of others, he certainly seems to find away to create a consensus somehow.

I think almost all of Pratchett's major characters are NTs, at least the ones who "save the day" at the end of the book. I think Vimes is a major exception as a "streetwise" ST, and even he has moments of intuitiveness.

I didn't really think I'd like some of his newer characters, but Moist Von Lipwig (ENTP) and his cranky fiancee (ironically named) Adora Dearhart (INTJ) have really grown on me.

So far I agree with all your estimations.
I've been reading a lot of Terry Pratchet and I kind of think that Susan, Death's granddaughter, is an INTJ. Thoughts?

[lordrrr]

Tery Pratchett sounds like Teri Hatcher, the actress from Desperate Housewives

[SShack]

So far I agree with all your estimations.
I've been reading a lot of Terry Pratchet and I kind of think that Susan, Death's granddaughter, is an INTJ. Thoughts?

Oh, definitely. Susan is so much an INTJ it's awesome. I love how she interacts with children. It's like Mary Poppins meets Ayn Rand. (By the way, they made a live action mini-series out of "Hogswatch" that aired over here on PAX around the holidays, if you didn't see it). The only guys she finds who truly understand her are other guys with messed up "parentages" like hers, like the "son" of the incarnation of time.

I think Agnes, the new witch, is also INTJ. I think Terry might have done that on purpose to build a new cycle. Magrat is an NF I think and Nanny is SF. When Granny eventually passes on, I think the idea is that Agnes will be the next witch of her type.

Terry seems to be intent on creating young NT women as some sort of different role model for girls. The Tiffany Aching young adult novels are definitely designed to be different from other books of the type. Tiffany is an NT for certain, probably even an NTJ. But it's too soon to tell yet whether she's I or E.

"Small Gods" is an awesome book. I was thinking about it today and realized it's about the awakening of an xNTJ in an oppressive SF world. I can't tell whether Brutha is introverted or extroverted, though. He starts off as a blank slate in the book and draws inspiration from both his exposure to ideas and his exposure to different people, so it's hard to say.

[notoppings]

I have to agree with everything that has been said. Hands down Terry Pratchet is the kind of writer that I recommend to others looking for something different.:thumbsup:

[Lucan]

I can't remember what they called Vimes pocket watch? It was some sort of imp.

[schwartzie]

Sadly, he received a diagnosis of alzheimer's a few months ago.





schwartzie added to this post, 3 minutes and 47 seconds later...

If you like pratchett, try neil gaiman, the coauthor with pratchett of "Good Omens".

[notoppings]

From schwartzie
If you like pratchett, try neil gaiman, the coauthor with pratchett of "Good Omens".

American Gods is one of my favorite books by Gaiman I don't think I've ever read another book that incorporated so many Gods from so many cultures.

[schwartzie]

agreed. And Coraline-a nice spooky little book.

[SShack]

I can't remember what they called Vimes pocket watch? It was some sort of imp.

I think it was "The Disorganizer" or something like that. It's meant to be a parody of PDAs I think. I'm not fond of the imps in Discworld. It strikes me as something from "The Flintstones," as Terry was looking for ways to incorporate modern technology in his books to serve his satire.

"Good Omens" was actually my introduction to Terry Pratchett. I enjoyed it a lot, so went back and started picking up his Discworld books.

[schwartzie]

My intro was The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, which I just happened across in the library. The true intro to TP came, however, shortly after, when a 13 year-old-midget rocket scientist acquaintance happened to see it laying on my car passenger seat, said "Ooooooh, yr a pratchett fan, eh," and unloaded NightWatch from her backpack, explaining that there were 20 or 30 more where that one came from. I spent the next year or so reading nothing but Pratchett.
I was one pretty strange chica by the end, and had to be ...well, kinda reading-rehabbed. I actually had moments of grieving as I approached the end of the series...and knew that our delightful companionship would end... :)

[ShaiGar]

From schwartzie
If you like pratchett, try neil gaiman, the coauthor with pratchett of "Good Omens".

American Gods is one of my favorite books by Gaiman I don't think I've ever read another book that incorporated so many Gods from so many cultures.
I HAVE, I HAVE...

The Sandman/Lucifer series... also neil's


:( I hope he at least writes the wedding of angua and carrot... *I cry at weddings*

[thod]

I always saw the patrician as an INTJ. He spends most his time alone.

[Asylum]

I read Pratchett and was enjoying his books until I got to Equal Rites. I'm having a horrible time trying to read through that! Unlike most tasks in my life I feel as if I have to finish a book. Then I leave it untouched for a long time. I suppose I should move on and read one of Pratchett's other novels.

[lagoon]

His latest ones are great moist von lipwig is a fantastic character

[SShack]

I read Pratchett and was enjoying his books until I got to Equal Rites. I'm having a horrible time trying to read through that! Unlike most tasks in my life I feel as if I have to finish a book. Then I leave it untouched for a long time. I suppose I should move on and read one of Pratchett's other novels.

His earliest books (that was the third Discworld book) show a lot of rough edges as he starts developing the characters. Granny Weatherwax isn't as well-defined as she becomes later. I think she's actually an ISTJ in that book instead of the INTJ she becomes in later novels. I had a friend I was trying to turn onto the books (in part because I know she'd love Susan), but she read those early ones first and was turned off.

[Asylum]

I liked the first two, because I really liked Rincewind [also I read them out of order, which somehow made them more interesting to me]. Somehow Equal Rite comes off as some kind of cliche he wrote for the sake of feminists. I've read enough books where the main character is clearly coming from a 70s-feminist movement activist mind. Granny Weatherwax didn't come off too... interesting in Equal Rites. I don't want to completely ditch Prachett's work based on this book though.

Hopefully I'll come back around to his book, but in the meantime there are classics I want to read.