Fantasy Books > Terry Pratchett Fantasy Books > less than 5 GBP

Advantages: very funny, very clever
Disadvantages: makes the last look bad :D

...seriously contemplating her future as a witch. And so now, being that she is a little older than she was then, the witches up in the mountains have had a few words and Miss Perspic... perspicia... Miss Tick is accompanying Tiffany, complete with new dress, new boots and a mysterious gift from Roland, who seems to have come over all slightly less idiotic. So Tiffany settles into a cottage in the mountains with the mysterious two-bodied Miss Level, ...
...of genius from the god that is Pratchett. Even though it's technically a kids book, i laughed the whole way through and have re read it over and over- theres things kids wouldnt get, so it makes a great adult book as well. Definitely worth the money! Buy it! :D:D ... Read review

Advantages: Great interplay between characters, sense of humour throughout.
Disadvantages: Prior knowledge of "The Witches" to fully appreciate this outing.

Vampyres have invaded Lancre. Well I say invaded, more like invited to the naming ceremony of the King's daughter. This makes it difficult to ask them to leave. It is made all the more improbable when it is discovered they are keen to make Lancre their new home and there seems to be little anyone can do about it, especially when the Discworld's most powerful Witch goes to ground. But who is this figure striding righteously across the valley? It's ...
...What can he, Agnes Nitt, a Witch who is in two minds over everything and Nanny Ogg, the oldest swinger in town do to fight these modern Vampyres who are so keen on a trendy, new spelling? "Carpe Jugulum" is Terry Pratchett's twenty-second Discworld novel. For those who remain Discworld Virgins, the Discworld is a fantasyland created by Pratchett in which Witches and Vampires exist and almost anything is a probability. This World is massively different ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, light reading...
Disadvantages: ... lacks the brilliance of later Discworld books.

Equal Rites is the third in the Discworld series of books. At the beginning an old wizard, who knows he has only a few minutes to live, journeys to a remote village with a silly name in order to pass on his staff to a deserving recipient. He knows that an eighth son of an eighth son has been born, and these are traditionally sorcerers. Off he goes then, looked at with interest by the many goats in the region, and the blacksmith's cat. He tells the ...
...… Equal Rites is typical of the early Discworld books - quite short, very readable, funny in many places, full of strange characters, and with a good plot. Like some of the other early novels set on the disc, it never quite achieves brilliance, mainly because author Terry Pratchett's writing style hadn't fully developed when he wrote this one. The satire is pretty straight-forward, which isn't to say it isn't good but it lacks depth and subtlety ... Read review

Advantages: Will make you want to read Pratchett over and over
Disadvantages: None

The Colour of Magic was the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read as I was introduced to Pratchetts books by a work colleague and that was about 12 years ago and I've never looked back since, having read everything in the Discworld series since. Pratchett uses a mixture of cliff hanger endings to each chapter, that prevents you from putting the book down, almost as if that if you do you'll miss something. He cleverly inserts jokes and puns that ... Read review

Advantages: Some humour. Very little, very subdued
Disadvantages: Terribly written

...fair few Pratchet books in the past all of the discworld series so when I saw this book I thought it should be just as good and bought it straight away. How wrong I was. First of all the plot. The story is about Dom who is the Chairman of the planet Widdershin and heir to a massive fortune. However, according to a concept called probability math than can predict the future the day Dom is to become Chairman he will die. However he does not die and ...
...it just seems stupid) The book is really badly written. It's as if Pratchet came up with the idea for a story and quickly threw it together. He seems to flit between ideas that may work well in his head but unless he describes them properly don't work well on the page. Nothing is described welll, very little is explained. I thought for a while maybe this book is a sequel and we're expected to know what these things are from the previous book but ... Read review