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Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - June 2024
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:11:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Titus G wrote:

> On 4/07/24 14:45, Default User wrote:
> > Titus G wrote:
> > 
> >> I hadn't read any for many years because too much of his humour
> dulls >> it considerably for me but when they were discussed here a
> few years >> ago with agreement for Jibini's claim that Guards!
> Guards! was the >> best from Discworld, I re-read it and loved it.
> > 
> > Oh. I don't even consider that to be the best of the sub-series it's
> > in. And of the whole of Discworld, there are many that I consider
> > to be far better. It's a good book, but not anywhere near the best
> > to me.
> > 
> 
> Well, I would be interested to hear your favourites. I have close to
> 40 Pratchett books and have re-read eight since I started rating
> books.  Agnes Nutter's brilliant epic and the following Discworld
> titles:  2 stars (Pot Boilers)    Going Postal, Moving Pictures,
>                          The Colour of Magic.
> 3 stars (Very Enjoyable) Mort, Hogfather.
> 4 stars (Brilliant)      Small Gods, Guards! Guards!

A non-exhaustive selection, off the top to my head, no particular order:

The Truth
Hogfather
Thief of Time
Reaper Man
Men at Arms
Soul Music 
Going Postal


Brian