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.
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"?
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'.
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) :wink:
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 :sad
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
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'
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...
Actually, it is an acceptable alternative spelling. Check this out: hijack - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary .
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.
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 'Nation'. P'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', 'Where's my Cow' and the shorter stories such as 'The Sea and Little Fishes' and 'Troll Bridge'. ......I think that's it. Suffice to say I am sat with my tongue hanging out for "Unseen Academicals!
I can highly recommend "Where's My Cow" - I read it with my kids and they especially like the Foul 'Ole Ron bit. (I have also been known to read it without the kids - the illustrations are quite absorbing!)
1 - The 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 - Small Gods 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 - Going Postal 34 - Thud! 35 - Wintersmith 36 - Making Money I can't figure out how to work the editing, I am so lame, anyway I have read this whole list and Where's my Cow?, and the Johnny Maxwell trilogy and the Bromeliad trilogy. as well as Good Omens and I skimmed through Nanny Ogg's cookbook. I also have the Art of Discworld. I love the Mona Ogg especially.
