Hogfather

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Unabridged.
Read by Nigel Planer.
It's the night before Hogwatch, but the fat man who delivers the toys is gone. Susan the governess has to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:57pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

"Christmas" on the Discworld submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 17, 2012, 12:37pm Those who love Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series will love this one, too, although young readers may find some parts of it disturbing. The main plot revolves around the Hogfather, analogous to Earth's Santa Claus who brings children gifts at Hogswatch, similar to our Christmas. Readers of other Discworld books will remember such recurring characer as Nobby Nobs and Constable Visit of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Read "Mort" and "Reaper Man" first to meet Death and get a feel for his family before picking up "Hogfather." We also meet Susan, a strong female lead character who accepts no nonsense from anyone and who saves the day for all the children of Discworld.

Sky One in the United Kingdom adapted this 20th of Pratchett's 39 Discworld books for television. Get the DVD out of the library (http://www.aadl.org/catalog/record/1316414) to hear an interview with Pratchett in which he talks about basing the Hogfather character on old European legends and archetypes.

The Classic Christmas Tale submitted by Allison B on June 26, 2013, 7:40pm Should be added to the list of things to read every Christmas. Hilarious. Susan is really epic.

A Wonderful Tale submitted by hduke on July 28, 2018, 2:07pm One of my favorite Discworld stories - full of humor, profound observations, and some of my favorite characters in all of Discworld, namely Susan and Death