It has also been made into a TV movie starring Tim Curry. The Color of Magic, an early novel of Discworld and still one of the best, follows the adventures of incompetent wizard Rincewind and a tourist named Twoflower. And really, once you see what Pratchett can do with a story about the post office, it's clear how hilarious and poignant his writing truly is. The novel is incredibly funny and also stands alone enough to be an excellent entry point into the series for anyone. Our favorite of Pratchett's novels, Going Postal follows a con man as he attempts to revitalize the post office in Discworld's premiere city of Ankh-Morpork (a place where stamps are not yet a thing). To celebrate the author, we picked five of his best works that you should read, whether your a super fan or you've never heard of Discworld. But altogether he wrote 70 books over the course of his career. Pratchett is perhaps best known for his Discworld series, 40 books that took place in the "Discworld" universe, a flat disc borne on the backs of gigantic elephants that, in turn, ride a gigantic turtle. The eBook of Unseen Academicals will require the use of the Libby app for Overdrive.Terry Pratchett, the celebrated fantasy author, died Thursday at 66.
Atlanta Public School students and employees can also log in as part of CLASS PASS with their student ID or Lawson number. If you have not changed your PIN/password, it is CHANGE ME. You'll need your library card number and PIN/password to check out ten titles with no wait each month. To download most of these works to your favorite device, install the hoopla app. We do have an audio version of the last volume in this series, as digital licensing rights were available. Let's hope that the downloadable audio versions of all these works are available for libraries to license soon! Until then, you can download the eBooks. To read more about the series set within Discworld, visit: The seven novels below center on the comically cowardly character Rincewind and the faculty of Unseen University.
While publishers tend to number all of Sir Terry Pratchett's novels set in Discworld in order of publication, there are distinct series set within that world.
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