Has anyone read anything by Terry Prachett? I just started reading some of his books and I love his style.
His most famous works is the Discworld Series which is a fantasy.
I haven't been able to get a copy of the first book "The color of magic" yet but I was wandering if anyone else has read them?

I've read The Color of Magic and a few others. He is a very funny author and has a witty sense of humor that really comes off the page. I remember laughing out loud many times reading his books. He is really good at playing off of established fantasy conventions and twists those tropes in imaginative and surprising ways.

If Lewis and Tolkien are the grandfathers of fantasy then Pratchett is the crazy fun loving uncle.

They tend to be very entertaining, but some of them have... issues. You may want to check with someone else who's read them before each one.

I am pretty sure I have read some Terry Prachett books, but I can't remember the title/s of the ones I've read.

Ok I know this is an old topic but I have now in fact read a few Discworld novels. 23 to be precise. I love it! Prachett mixes the perfect amount of solid story and great characters with the most hilarious wit.
I usually don't like things that poke fun at the fantasy genre but the way he does it totally works.

Warning though some of them can get a little crude but for them most part they are clean.

I think my favorite is Soul Music.

Anyone else around enjoys Discworld?

My sister and I stumbled across The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents in a bad used bookstore, and ever since we read that we've been reading all the Discworld books we can get our hands on...only four so far. I loved The Amazing M and I also enjoyed The Light Fantastic, but The Color of Magic and The Wee Free Men, the others I've read, were...well...kind of weird. They had some great lines, but...I guess I just didn't get them. I was never really sure what exactly the plot of The Color of Magic was, for instance...but whatever. Pratchett is clearly a wonderfully skilled author - I love his talent for describing simple things in creative and hilarious ways - and I will keep stubbornly reading his books even if some of them go over my head.

Content-wise, does anyone know how I could find out what installments of the series I might want to avoid, without reading piles of Amazon reviews and running into spoilers left and right...my current technique?

Well I can tell you about the ones's I've read. They're all pretty equal two that stick out to me as going a little to far for me were "Lords and Ladies" and "Moving pictures"

Thanks for the heads-up!

My sister finished The Light Fantastic a few days ago and she's still giggling over it. She loved the Luggage...