Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - June 2024 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:42:47 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6683e1e5.1290931156@127.0.0.1> Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 07:42:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7d5489500795dfc47d3f4eb09a1a3de0"; logging-data="2779584"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kNz0t+f+pLAou9sGa/iH1" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v+hKxLuWs4PWz3z6tjZAX1iXV2c= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-AU Bytes: 2255 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!