What happened to the fandom for this series? I was under the impression that these books were fairly popular, and I used to see people mention it all the time, but I wear it just seemed to die the same day the author did.
What happened to the fandom for this series?
I noticed that my library has got rid of all their translated Pratchett.
Don't worry, sooner or later there will be a film adaptation and then the threads will be flooded with secondaries with the most atrociously dull opinions, not to mention the /misc/tards whining as always.
>aiieee save me /misc/ is coming to get me, I must whine about /misc/ in every unrelated thread
YWNBAW
and YWNBW
>you will never beat women
>The /misc/tard is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a chud, incel, virgin, schizo, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a /misc/tard and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”
Obsessed.
>with the most atrociously dull opinions
The most self-aware poster on IQfy
Sky made a couple film adaptations while he was still alive like hogfather and Amazon adapted his collab book wih gaiman "good omens"
How would a fandom keep its size when there are no new works coming out? There’s nothing new to discuss or look forward to, just endless regurgitation of the past. LOTR fandom was unique since it was before Internet and there was a lot of fan fiction. Every other fandom lives as long as flow of content is maintained.
That ought to be the biggest factor. I wonder if another one might be that reading has got more gendered so that the pubescent boys that were the main demographic aren't reading much at all.
The same thing that happened to the people who rode penny-farthings, grew a greasy looking string of facial hair they called a moustachio and made blogposts about enlightened atheism.
They realised it was hideously embarrassing. Pratchett and Douglas Adams were the Bible of the early 2000s redditor, and now that those people have (mostly) grown up they've been shoved to the back of the closet were nobody can ever find them.
the entire subculture that bought into that kind of stuff was deservedly ridiculed out of public life
I remember going on TV Tropes about 15 years ago and every single article had about a million Discworld links in it.
You're right though, the library at my high school had a shitload of Terry Pratchett books but now it's kind of hard to find his stuff anywhere. He's in the same boat as someone like Douglas Adams where his work was funny at the time, but it comes across as played out and very Reddit-adjacent by today's standards.
I do hate that he got more and more pozzed as time went on.
Night Watch was great, along with thief of time and the truth, but then a few later he wrote that steaming heat of shit "monstrous regiment" and the weirdness over koom valley and the goblins
City Watch novels are pretty fun
Maybe his fandom was really just him shill-spamming, and it died when he did.
I don't know. Bearing
and some other posts in this thread in mind, knowing what we know now about the extent of shilling online and IRL, I could see his stuff getting pushed as social engineering. Can't comment on Adams though.
>I could see his stuff getting pushed as social engineering
No, people were just that clueless and obnoxious in the early 2000s. I almost envy zoomers who never had to experience r/enlightenedathiesm or "steampunk."
I've read like 10 of them lol. I like them and they are easy to read unlike all the really difficult books you guys talk about >_<
I tried to get into it starting with Guards!Guards! but dropped it like 20 pages in because my immersion was immediately shattered, it felt like a monty python skit. I was expecting comedy, but I kinda expected it to have it attached to the world instead of using it as a backdrop. Is it always like this, completely by design? Is there a chance I could still vibe with it if I give it time?
Now, as I said, I dropped it insanely early just out of sheer emotional rejection, but I'd still like to try again just because i've heard the guy is really good.
Try reading Mort, that's usually what most people consider the best one, it's the first one where the plot isn't just an excuse for jokes. Don't read The Colour of Magic, even Terry himself thought it was shit.
I managed to power though it, but I agree. It had a few good bits here and there but other than that I read it once and never again. Pyramids was a fricking struggle. The early books in general aren't that great, and the latter ones are a tiny bit pozzed. The middle era is alright.
the reading order filters midwits
>the fifth element
>element
They dun goof'd
Nothing happened. It's one of the most highly regarded fantasy series out there.