I feel like the only Terry Pratchett fan who didn't like Small Gods that much. I liked it, but I didn't think it was his best. Eh, maybe I'm just weird. But I hope you like it.
I love baking bread too, though it's been a month or so since I've done it. I always do the whole wheat by hand thing though. (My favorite book does have some bread machine recipes though...)
We've yet to try baking any bread by hand, but then, we haven't tried anything but white bread in Doughbot yet either. We're definitely going to, since scruloose prefers other breads, but we seem to be trying to perfect the white bread first. ^^; (Which works for me, since most breads I eat are white. I know it's unhealthy, but I just can't get used to the taste of other breads. :/)
I don't exactly have a perfect diet either. (In fact yours is probably better than mine.) I just got hooked on whole wheat bread (when I do bake bread) because of the Laurel's Kitchen cookbook.
My eating habits vary dramatically. >.> From day to day they range from "decent if you ignore the complete lack of veggies and almost-complete lack of whole grains" to "truly appalling". I'm glad to have discovered that I don't mind brown rice, at least, but that only helps so much when I still don't want it with Chinese food.
I was reading the Chronicles when I was in college in chronological order, but life interfered and was unable to finish even though I have the entire series. I'll need to pick it up again sometime...
You can borrow my copies when you're in Toronto, come to that. I agree that Small Gods wasn't my favourite, but I know people who think it's the pinnacle. I'm all for the Watch and Sam Vimes and *especially* Vetinari, so Guards, Guards! and Men at Arms and Feet of Clay (my personal favourite) are my books more than the Death/ Susan ones or the stand-alones like Small Gods.
I've heard that Going Postal is considered a good place to start Discworlding if the Watch/ hard-boiled coppers aren't your thing.
Hard-boiled cops may not be the best starting place for me if there're other good drop-in spots available, honestly. I keep hearing good things about the...Witch set? Discworld is more confusing than I'd originally expected.
The Witches are fun and occasionally deep, yes. They turn up twice, once in the Witches series itself and again in the YA Tiffany Aching books, and very little to distinguish one from the other. I just have a pash for Vetinari the Patrician-ruler of Ankh-Morpork-- competence is sexy-- which then involves his parther/ nemesis Vimes the head of the Watch. Who is not as hard-boiled as all that, either.
Speaking of the Witches, Masquerade would probably be a great place to start for someone who's into theatre and stuff. It's not the first in the Witches series, but it's kind of a new beginning for them, so anything that might be confusing gets filled in. And it's about opera!
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I love baking bread too, though it's been a month or so since I've done it. I always do the whole wheat by hand thing though. (My favorite book does have some bread machine recipes though...)
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We've yet to try baking any bread by hand, but then, we haven't tried anything but white bread in Doughbot yet either. We're definitely going to, since scruloose prefers other breads, but we seem to be trying to perfect the white bread first. ^^; (Which works for me, since most breads I eat are white. I know it's unhealthy, but I just can't get used to the taste of other breads. :/)
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I've heard that Going Postal is considered a good place to start Discworlding if the Watch/ hard-boiled coppers aren't your thing.
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Hard-boiled cops may not be the best starting place for me if there're other good drop-in spots available, honestly. I keep hearing good things about the...Witch set? Discworld is more confusing than I'd originally expected.
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