The Shepherd's Crown 9/10
Monstrous Regiment 9.8/10
only 1 book left and few short stories i cant find and i will have finished all of discworld
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only 1 book left and few short stories i cant find and i will have finished all of discworld
Which one are you missing? And which short stories? I can look if I have them
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Raising Steam is the last BOOK
outside of that just some other works i need to look into and possibly read. one of them is a coloring book sooo not gonna read them all
The Streets of Ankh Morpork (1993)
The Discworld Companion (1994)
The Discworld Mapp (1995)
The Pratchett Portfolio (1996)
Discworld's Diary Unseen University Diary 1998
Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary (1998)
A Tourist Guide to Lancre (1998)
Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (1999)
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (1999)
Death's Domain (1999)
Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001
GURPS Discworld Also (2000)
Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002
Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003
The New Discworld Companion
The Art of Discworld (2004)
The Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007
The Unseen University Cut-Out Book
Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
The Illustrated Eric (2010)
The Compleat Ankh-Morpork: City Guide (2012)
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion...So Far (2012)
Discworld Diary: We r Igors 2015: First and Last Aid (2014)
Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook: To Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway (2014)
Discworld 2016 Diary: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch (2015
The Compleat Discworld Atlas (2015)
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring Book (2016)
Discworld Diary 2017 (2016)
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Diary 2019 (2018)
Death and Friends: A Discworld Journal (2019)
The Ankh-Morpork City Watch Discworld Journal (2020)
The Ultimate Discworld Companion
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I read a couple of the diaries when I was staying in Dublin at a friend's (he is obsessed with Discworld) and they were alright but I have been looking in vain for most of them since then. It was the Assassins' Guild Yearbook and the Reformed Vampire Diary.
The various maps and street guides are pretty cool for the lore if you can find them but there's not much to read in them. I remember we used The Streets of Ankh Morpork and the Tourist guide for an improvised tabletop RPG (we didn't use the GURPS Discworld) so I have copies of that, and I know I have Death's Domain somewhere but that's about it for those. If you can find The Compleat Discworld Atlas, you'll already have a beautiful comprehensive book about the Discworld geography.
Of course I have Mrs Ogg's Cookbook :D and it's hilarious. I definitely recommend this one even if you don't care about the cooking parts :P
Death and Friends, I've taken a look at when I was at my friend's and it's pretty much just a blank diary with a few reused quotes and illustrations. Bit of a disappointment.
Regarding the companions, I have most of them except the "original" 90ies one and Turtle Recall is the best one imo. The Ultimate edition does have a few things extra, mostly from the original book that were cut in other editions and some fandom stuff but it's not worth much.
The Illustrated Eric is, I think, the original form of the Eric novella and it's pretty cool to see the illustrations but this one was never really my favorite of all the Discworld books and I wish it had been another one with illustrations instead :P
The Art of Discworld is gorgeous and really worth the time to look at. I don't know if there's anything new in there but there were a lot of illustrations I had never seen before in other books.
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld is just a quote book. A hilarious quote book like a supercut of a hilarious very long show that you want to revisit without having to re-watch/read everything.
I also have The Folklore of Discworld that my gf got for me. It probably should have been called "The origins of the folklore of Discworld" as it is a lot about the myths that inspired the folklore of Discworld but it's very interesting, if you are into mythology and Discworld.
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Just finished Camus - The Stranger with my friend book club, really good and I'm excited to read more by Camus
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The Plague was really fun to reread during Covid, as it tells the story of a lookdown. I recommend you keep it at hand for the next pandemic, it will really elevate your reading experience!
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I sure hope it won't be for the next pandemic hahaha, but The Plague is on my priority list! i have it laying around somewhere so when I have some time I will get to it for sure
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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.
I enjoyed this one, it was interesting. The main character turned out to be not really the main character, because one of the side characters jumped off the page in a way the main character did not. Can't quite figure out if that was intentional or not.
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That looks like a good one. Seems a bit dark for me right now but I'm adding it to my readlist.
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Recently finished The Bear and the Nightingale for a book club which meets soon and I enjoyed it, reminded me a lot of Naomi Novik's modern-day folk/faerie tales Uprooted and Spinning Silver.
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Last book was Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.
It's about how we got to the opioid crisis because of these drug pushing choads.
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And still not one has seen the inside of a jail cell... Justice being blind and all (still can see money though)
Happy 🎂 day btw
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The second coming of Gluttony by Ru Yu-Jin. Not really a "book" but a online light novel. It was pretty good with all level up stuff but some side stories or character traits where just plain annoying but after "Moonlight Sculpture" a nice change of pace. 7/10 because I could not find/read the prequel story about the big bad boss.
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Thread bump to motivate fellow lazy readers bump!
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yeah... ive been slacking.... have instead watched 14 seasons of bobs burgers
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Bloodwar and Unholy Allies of the Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy (Vampire the Masquerade)
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Piranesi by susanah clark. 10/10
I won't say much to avoid any spoiler.... but damn that book got amazing plot twists and is mind bending!
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A Higher Call by Adam Makos
This is an easy 10/10. I don't usually read non-fiction, but I couldn't pass reading this. I can't stress enough how this is my favourite story from the Second World War. It's about an incident that happened between a German fighter plane and a an American B-17 bomber and the backstories of both pilots. It delves deepest into the story of the German pilot and his war experience. The German aces were interesting and frankly incredible honourable men. Humanity in a terrible war is a sight to behold. I would recommend to everyone.
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took me some time to get a hold of the book
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
and with that ive finish all of official discworld
9.5/10
such a shame we wont get any more books as they keep getting better.
got a key for Wanderlust: Travel Stories and Liberated on GOG for whoever wants it, one per person
i think going postal is still my favorite
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
G means that the message must be passed on,
N means “not logged”,
U means the message should be turned around at the end of a line.
a man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
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ive been slacking.... catching up on manga and anime/tvshows
hard to find a new book series to get into
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
5/10 it was a book. much prefer Dicks short stories
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If manga counts then i finished the 2nd book of Love Hina just kinda recently. Otherwise, i have been low energy and basically haven't finished anything else either. I have around 10+ started reads tho.
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Yeah, I didn't think too much of that book either.
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Read Space Hostages. Silly middle-grade sci fi fun with first contact aliens and all that.
Several of my coworkers recommended Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It was fine, some nice video game nostalgia, but I liked Ready Player One better.
Finished the Lunar Chronicles, Winter, last book. Very young adult/high school with occasional bouts of passion, but overall a fun mixup of semi-familiar characters in a sci-fi retelling. Really enjoyed it, though not for everyone.
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Pretty much perfect. It's filled with light and dark, sadness and happiness, cynicism and hope, deceit and truth. Just an amazing book.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Excellent novel. I've been a fan of Agatha Christie's work for years, but I've kept putting this one off for quite a while for no particular reason. Now, I believe it's one of my favorite stories of hers, with a surprising and very satisfying conclusion. My one issue I had with it is the same issue I usually have with her works, but in this case it was especially bad, which is that due to the large number of characters and names, all in the same action space, I've got them all scrambled in my head numerous times and always had BookCompanion on my phone to check it whenever needed.
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Love Agatha Christie! Highly recommend And Then There Were None if you haven't read it yet! Also Peril at End House
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Haha, that was actually my second ever book of hers that I read, I believe around 10-11 years ago, though under another name at the time, and it's actually the book that got me into her work, as it was recommended to me by my literature teacher at the time. So I ordered it, along with a few others, including the very first one I've read, and I still consider my favorite, probably mostly due to it being the first one, as I remember little from it, "Sleeping Murder". I plan on reading it again soon.
I haven't read Peril at End House yet, so I'll be taking note of that and make sure to add it to my cart next time I buy books, thank you ^^
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N or M? by Agatha Christie. Very unsatisfying read. Not enough intrigue, just lots of suspicious things and then ending.
Star Trek: The New Voyages - set of short stories. Worth reading The Enchanted Pool, but the rest of the short stories were not worth reading. Enchanted Pool was classic Star Trek fun!
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - masterpiece and a wild ride
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Kurt Vonnegut was a genius! His work should be required reading in schools. Of course it'd never be but that's why it should be
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The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
It's a Middle Eastern fantasy book that started as an experiment in world building and unfortunately it kinda shows. The story seems like an afterthought and just a way to introduce a bunch of magical creature and elements gathered from middle eastern folklore. A bit too much romance in parts as well. It's the first of a trilogy and I won't be reading the others.
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Been awhile since my last check-in but here's what I finished since 3 months ago:
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Artifact Space by Miles Cameron
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I greatly enjoyed all 3 for different reasons but especially Artifact Space because it scratches a few specific itches.
Currently reading: Young Miles Omnibus by Lois McMaster Bujold.
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Just finished The Road for the first time. It was incredible. I knew going into my first Cormac McCarthy book to expect some particular quirks in the writing like no quotations, run-on and fragment sentences. I didn't expect the style to hook me like that. I could not put it down! Looking forward to reading more by him.
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reread Going Postal and Making Money Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
saw a trailer for muderbot after avoiding the show cause the name. watched one episode, picked up the book series
on the 2nd one right now
it like the show, but better
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I need to read more Discworld! I've only read The Color of Magic and enjoyed it quite a bit. I've seen some people say the Witches books are some of the best, would you agree? Or do you suggest any others in particular? My original plan is to just continue on chronologically.
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all of them are great, but the watch books are the best. going postal is still my favorite
completely different well still being the same so you can read every book in a row without them getting stale
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Heh so you ended up starting all over again once you were done with the series :D
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Artificial Condition
7.5/10 really short in areas where it starts to get good. large build up with small to no payoff
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just a thread for the last book you finished and a quick review. can even just give it a 1/10 stars
could also toss in your favorite book - Star Wars The Old Republic - Revan
looking for new books to read. i mostly do audiobooks well working or playing videogames
last year finished all of Philip K. Dick's short works and have been getting into Terry Pratchetts stuff
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/wuFPb/
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