Well I was all set to post a quiz, just for a change, but I thought it might be more fun to find out how many of the Discworld series each member has read up to date. That way I can set questions the majority of people have a chance of answering.

Here is the list of Discworld books. If you just copy and paste it in to your reply and make the ones you've read Bold. Then everyone can see where they are.

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Gaurds! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Element
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - The Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Mostrous Regiment
32 - Hatful of Sky
33 - Goiung Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

If you want to list any other of pTerry's books you've also read, feel free.

I've got all of the above including 'Nations'. Plus 'Dark side of the Sun', 'Bromeliad Trilogy', 'Johnny Trilogy', 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Good Omens', the maps of Discworld and Ankh Morpork, 'The Science of Discworld', 'The Discworld Companions' (2 issues), 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'.
Forgive me if I left any out but I have been collecting for a number of years and I know I have a copy of every one.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern

Okay...

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Gaurds! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Element
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - The Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Mostrous Regiment
32 - Hatful of Sky
33 - Goiung Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

as well as

'Nations'. Plus 'Dark side of the Sun', 'Bromeliad Trilogy', 'Johnny Trilogy', 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Good Omens', the maps of Discworl and Ankh Morpork, 'The Science of Discworld', 'The Discworld Companions' (2 issues), 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'.

Only the bold ones.

Errk...

I am posting on my Wii (computer broken), which does not have copy and paste facilities, so I'll just give the numbers...

1 2 3 4 7 8 13 15 16 19 21 22 24 25 (reading at moment) 29 31 33 34 36.

Plus Nation and Johnny and The Bomb.

I think.

Also, those names had a remarkable number of spelling mistakes.

And why is this thread called the "Curious Squid Syndrome"?

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

Here we go...

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Gaurds! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Element
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - The Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Monstrous Regiment
32 - A Hat Full of Sky
33 - Going Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

as well as

'Nation', 'Dark side of the Sun', 'Bromeliad Trilogy' (only the first one), 'Johnny Trilogy', 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Good Omens', the maps of Discworl and Ankh Morpork, 'The Science of Discworld', 'The Discworld Companions' (2 issues), 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'.

Damn Spider pig

Apart from 'Gaurds! Guards!', 'Mostrous Regiment' and 'Goiung Postal' blame the rest on pTerry.

You might have missed the reference in Jingo (#21 on your list)

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Guards! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Element
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - The Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Monstrous Regiment
32 - Hatful of Sky
33 - Going Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

The Carpet People 1971 edition, The Carpet People the 1992 edition (preferred the 1971 one.) Johnny and the Dead, 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'Good Omens', 'The Science of Discworld', 'Where's my Cow', 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'.

I have all of the above except for The sea and the Little Fishes and Troll Bridge. Sigh...

Fair enough, but "SmallGods", "The Fifth Element", and "Nations" are also not right.

Yes, I do know that a curious squid is a nasty-tasting, fatally curious lifeform. I just wondered why this particular thread had that as its title.

(Well, that post took about half an hour, because I have to enter all the code for quotes by hand )

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

I apologize to everyone who has had difficulty in understanding this thread, but as many of you know, Oxford English is not my first language.

From Jingo..."The Curious Squid were extremely curious. Unfortunately, they weren't very good at making connections."

End of Thread Highjack

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like grandpa. Not screaming and panicking like his passengers.
Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Guards! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Elephant
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Monstrous Regiment
32 - Hatful of Sky
33 - Going Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

If you want to list any other of pTerry's books you've also read, feel free.

I've got all of the above including 'Nation'. Plus 'Dark side of the Sun', 'Bromeliad Trilogy', 'Johnny Trilogy', 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Good Omens', the maps of Discworld and Ankh Morpork, 'The Science of Discworld', 'The Discworld Companions' (2 issues), 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'.

1 - Colour of Magic
2 - Light Fantastic
3 - Equal Rites
4 - Mort
5 - Sourcery
6 - Wyrd Sisters
7 - Pyramids
8 - Guards! Guards!
9 - Eric
10 - Moving Pictures
11 - Reaper Man
12 - Witches Abroad
13 - SmallGods
14 - Lords and Ladies
15 - Men at Arms
16 - Soul Music
17 - Interesting Times
18 - Maskerade
19 - Feet of Clay
20 - Hogfather
21 - Jingo
22 - The Last Continent
23 - Carpe Jugulum
24 - The Fifth Elephant
25 - The Truth
26 - The Thief of Time
27 - The Last Hero
28 - The Amazing Maurice
29 - Night Watch
30 - The Wee Free Men
31 - Monstrous Regiment
32 - Hatful of Sky
33 - Going Postal
34 - Thud!
35 - Wintersmith
36 - Making Money

If you want to list any other of pTerry's books you've also read, feel free.

I've got all of the above including 'Nation'. Plus 'Dark side of the Sun', 'Bromeliad Trilogy', 'Johnny Trilogy (only You can save mankind)', 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook', 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Good Omens', the maps of Discworld and Ankh Morpork, 'The Science of Discworld', 'The Discworld Companions' (2 issues), 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'. Plus 'Strata'

Q. How do you write?
A. One word at a time.

I feel a little left out...

Everyone else seems to have read them all except 'The Amazing Maurice'.

Do you all think yourselves above it 'cos it's for children?

Ps. The word 'hijack' has no 'g' or second 'h'.

Sorry, I can't help it...

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

Actually, it is an acceptable alternative spelling.


Check this out:
hijack - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary






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Ahh, thank you.

I deserved that.

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

Read them all, including the ones listed at bottom!

Certainly not, I've just not had a chance to read it. Only place I could have bought so far it was at an airport and I was looking for a big thick chunky book to last the whole holiday... The Tiffany books, the Johnny books and the Bromeliad trilogy are all categorised as "for children" and I think you'll see many of us have read those... In fact, I would read "Where's my cow?" if I got a chance.

Damn Spider pig