Terry Pratchett

[I, Brian]

Where is Belford, anyway?

[Marianne]

I am going to add my voice to the accolades for Pratchett-not that he needs it. His book sales alone must make him very happy I put my order in for Going Postal weeks ago and I am on pins and needles waiting for it to arrive.

[Estelthea]

And I'll jump on the end too! I've been a fan for ages (I spent a few years of my misguided youth hanging out on alt.fan.pratchett) and I've ammassed a rather impressive collection of Pratchett praphernalia too - there is not much room on my bookself for anything else now! I've slowed down a bit since university, when I hardly had time to read anything, but I still have to have the latest Discworld thing on the day of publication or I go a little crazy. I am a Pratchett anorak really.

I find him very amusing and enjoyable to read on all kinds of levels but I can say that a lot of the things I know are down to Discworld. I've looked up far too many of the allusions to our world and have ended up in strange places with lots of lovely useless knowledge. He has to be one of the funniest and cleverest authors alive; even when he is not at his best he is still much better than everyone else.

My favourite books are too many to list but I really like the Guards series because of the fantastic characters and the way those books progress through the series. Feet of Clay is my best pick I think, for now anyway (although Interesting Times is hilarious and so is Moving Pictures and Small Gods was a pretty amazing book too!).