I remember my dad reading these to me when I was little 
I was obsessed with TP growing up - I was introduced to him when I asked someone what Pratchett meant in a PlayStation Magazine review of the Discworld game. When I was told that Death had a horse called Binky I laughed so hard that I had to play the game (which I borrowed off a friend’s parents) and got loads of books from the library (they kept a list of which ones I’d already read)
Ah, they must’ve been perfect for that.
Thinking about it, Truckers is probably the only Terry Pratchett book to get a decent TV adaptation (based on my memories of it from when I was 9 at least):
Interesting how the trailer was going for the adult audience too.
A lot of laughing at (someone? a species of animal?) trying to count:
One, and another one, and another one, and another one
Read em all, love em all, got various silly merch, quote Nanny regularly (il porcupino nil sodomy est) and think he was pretty much flawless apart from getting a little too into making the Patrician omniscient towards the end
Many, lots
The first author I really engaged with seriously as a kid! I think I must have been around 11 and one of my fellow scouts recommended him so one day I asked my mum if we could go to the book store to get one of his books (as you can probably tell, I was quite the cool kid).
I remember really vividly picking up Wyrd Sisters and it having a line in it about chaos theory and “that bloody butterfly” and my mum looked at the first page and said “this book swears!” (Seriously, such a cool childhood).
Anyway, I managed to overcome her objection to the word “bloody” (and the fact that I was starting at a slightly nonsensical point in the Discworld cannon) and got the book and…initially found it a bit difficult going.
But I persevered and spent the next 8-9 years pretty much only reading Pratchett, buying the companion books, playing the insanely difficult PC game, talking Pratchett with my friends, etc. etc.
I don’t want to tarnish a lovely thread like this with negativity about the great man, but the only thing I would say at this point is that I’m kind of afraid to pick up any of his books (either for re-reads or the ones I missed) it case in breaks the spell for me, I’m so glad I have him as a reference point in my life and a big part of me wants to leave that where it is.
Over the years I moved houses, gave away books, did charity shop runs etc. and the only Pratchett I have left is a completely trashed and dog-eared copy of Soul Music that I loved so much and literally read to pieces, and I keep it as a sort of solitary reminder on my bookshelf at all times.
Just seeing the name there has reminded me that the later books had that background plot where the Patrician was grooming Moist von Lipwig to take over running Ankh-Morpork, and we never got to see it play out. Death’s shit, innit?
I’M HONESTLY NOT THAT BAD
The Carpet People 
Death of rats is the best
Was at a service station on a boring car holiday -drive for hours to england, visit relatives, do nothing exciting - when i was maybe 10 and the cover art for reaper man caught my attention. Took a bit to get into but i loved that book. Read loads of them after that. Moving pictures, the dogs were a compelling duo, and small gods have stuck in the memory, although who knows if they are considered as good ones.
What was the one with the shopping trolley apocalypse?
Don’t think i got on with wyrd sisters for some reason and not sure if i finished it.
He’s like the anti-Walter Tevis (who wrote The Hustler/The Colour of Money/The Man Who Fell to Earth/The Queen’s Gambit), pretty much all the adaptations of his books are duds, I wish they’d stop trying really. There’s some really cheap looking animated film of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents out sometime this year as well.
Reaper Man
My all time favourite author. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to read the final Discworld novel because after that…well there will be no more new Discworld books to read.
Oh. Ha ha. I’m a silly.
The way he got cultural references in and the way I wasn’t guaranteed to get them all but then go “awww yeah” when I did. I read an Umberto Eco book and he did the same but seemed a lot more pretentious about it
Mort
That was the very first Pratchett novel I read. I can still remember seeing it in my local library and the striking cover art from Josh Kirby just made it jump out at me on the shelf as something that I had to take home and read. I think I finished it that same weekend.
Was thinking of doing a poll for fave character but there’s too bloody many and they’re all so wonderful.
