I really should read this series...

[cormac]

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Death You are death! Reaper of souls! Riding your horse, Binky, with a scythe at hand. Always working, always busy… You sometimes try to socialize with the living, and ALWAYS SPEAK IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Death 75% Carrot Ironfounderson 75% Lord Havelock Vetinari 75% The Librarian 69% Commander Samuel Vimes 63% Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 56% Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 50% Cohen The Barbarian 44% Greebo 38% Rincewind 38%

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Terry Pratchett is nowhere near as popular in the US as the UK, a datum I can only attribute to flawed marketing. DEATH is one of the best characters, he has several of his own books.

They are shooting TV miniseries of the Discworld books, not necessarily in sequence. The first one aired last Christmastime in the UK, THE HOGFATHER, his spin on Holidays as celebrated by humans and the nature of Legend in general. It airs in the US next week, but I'm picking up the DVD as it is released exclusively to Borders as of... today. Yay! Sir Ian Richardson voices DEATH in this film, but he died of course, so in the next one they have case Christopher Lee, whom I consider a better choice with some actual experience...

Cosgrove Hall did two one-week animated miniseries of two of the other books, WYRD SISTERS [weird twists on Hamlet] and SOUL MUSIC [one of the Death books, teasing the Music Industry and dead rock stars]. Animation was insipid, character design fair, voice casting delightful.

I will inflict any and all of the extent books and/or DVD's as you care to be inflicted.

[penumbren]

Ooooohhhh.... I didn't know that came out today! Darn it, I shall have to wait for pay day... either tomorrow or Friday, depending on holiday timing.

Someday, I look forward to actually having out all of my Discworld books on shelves at once and enjoying the fact that they take up more than one shelf ALL BY THEMSELVES.

[penumbren]

You've never read Discworld???? That's practically criminal!!

*terribly jealous for your scoring as my favourite character*

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Envy him the full experience ahead of him. [misty smile]

[penumbren]

Oh yes... good point. I ran across the DW accidentally when I was about 10 and picked up Equal Rites at a Payless. It's been True Love ever since.

[sepdet.livejournal.com]

You should definitely read The Hogfather, since you dressed as Father Christmas last year.

In that story, Death has to try and play Santa Claus. He's very earnest. But it comes out rather Jacklike (as in Nightmare Before Christmas).

And I don't know why I never made that association before, but Terry Pratchett is such a unique writer that I I hadn't picked up the similarity. It stops there. I mean, I don't think Tim Burton ever imagined a Verruca Fairy.

[penumbren]

Hee. I never thought of that combination either, but I've always wondered, especially after reading Good Omens, what a collaboration between Pratchett and Douglas Adams would have been like.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

OMG, if Jean Vadim ever gives it up, they NEED NEED NEED to get Tim Burton to direct Discworld films. NEED!!!!!

[fitzjames.livejournal.com]

I must say, I love Discworld. The writing is great! However getting into a series with 20+ books is daunting especially since they never seem to be in used bookstores. On a similar vein, if you haven't read Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman you really really should.

[cormac.livejournal.com]

Oh I've read Good Omens, as well as one of the Discworld books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. I've just never had time to read any more of them.