Pratchett: WAS: Re: Ancestry

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You're right, that would be best, start at the beginning. But do

you have any particular favorites? I remember reading Hogfather and

Soul Music (I think those are the titles).

Music with Rocks In, excellent... :-)

Jill

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> Start from the beginning :-)

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> I've only recently finished re-reading a fair few of his books in an

> attempt to keep my spirits up - I'm having a Pratchett break for a

> while now :-)

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> I did have the complete collection but it was built up with a partner

> who I was with at the time - he got to keep the collection - but we

> are still friends so he lends me the books whenever I want :-)

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> Mort is Deaths replacement yes.

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In a message dated 3/24/2006 8:02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, julie.stevenson16@... writes:

Start from the beginning :-)I've only recently finished re-reading a fair few of his books in an attempt to keep my spirits up - I'm having a Pratchett break for a while now :-)I did have the complete collection but it was built up with a partner who I was with at the time - he got to keep the collection - but we are still friends so he lends me the books whenever I want :-)Mort is Deaths replacement yes.

Piers has a series called the Incarnations of Imortality. In it, many of the different "gods" like death, time, war, etc. actually exist in a world full of magic, Earth that is at it might exist if magic was as commonplace as technology and existed alongside it. The first novel is probably the best. It is, I think, On a Pale Horse. It is about a man who is about to committ suicide when Death walks in the door. Reflexively the man shoots Death in the face and kills him. The Fates arrive and tell him that since he killed Death, he is now the new Death. I found it very interesting.

The later novels go downhill though to the point that I did not finish the next to the last one, the one about Satan, and never got around to reading the one about God. The problem was that as the series progressed, had to recap more and more of the previous novels, presumably for those reading just that novel and not the earlier ones. Still, the first one and the ones about Time and War are good reads. I think Fates were good too. Don't recall the order in the series after the first though.