Have you read THUD! or Night Watch? Pratchett at his very best.

Of course. Especially Night Watch was excellent
... If I really posted my post, then... Sorry, otherwise I've accidentaly clicked cancel and you should ignore what I'm writing now :D
Yes, I have, especially Night Watch was excellent. Also: Where's my cow?
Edit: A-haa! I HAVE posted it! not-removed for possible hilarity

Good Omens > all ...

Good Omens is brilliant. As is The Last Hero.

I also quite enjoy Kurt Vonnegut.

To steer the discussion more on topic, I'm curious about what Eoin Colfer will make out of And Another Thing...
I hope this work can live up to the overall quality of the novels.

Technically, not really. Pratchett still doesn't understand the whole concept of chapters (though I've heard that after writing for thirty years or so he eventually picked them up, but haven't seen it in any of the books I've read). His writing is relatively unstructured. Honestly, I don't even think he's a writer. More like a storyteller that remembered to write his best yarns down. Some of them are decent enough and his sense of humor is often funny in spite of his lack of discernible writing skill (he strikes me as a fairly funny fellow), but he's an atrocious writer on a technical level. Similar ballpark to someone like Malachy McCourt or Philip K. Dick. Good storyteller, lousy writer. No sense of plotting.
Also, I find his parody grating, repetitive, and ultimately derivative. His themes are intrinsically adolescent and lack the kind of philosophical flourish present in Adams. I'm not alone on this one. Look at the back of the books - YA Fiction? His mythological and mythopoeic references are also flagrantly beat-you-over-the-head apparent unless you're completely unfamiliar with folklore and the literary genres he's parodying. Always makes me roll my eyes.

Like I said, I don't ever read, so I don't have a clue who your talking about (except for douglas adams of course :P )

Don't you just feel like kicking your own ass when you discover you've been missing out on something this good for so long! (I felt the same way when I discovered Black Sabbath a few years ago.)
The rest of the books (in the "increasingly inaccurately named trilogy") are great too. The movie doesn't do it justice. Almost ruined the book for me. Watch at your peril.

I looked at this movie and i was rather disappointed.
The story is much better from the book.
so we'll place this one one ebay very shortly.
honestly the only times i laughed (more like grinned) was when the president got whacked by a flysplatter and when the crab got stuck under the door of the spaceship.
so far hilarious ...

I almost forgot to include two of my favorite quotes from the novels!
1) (From book 3, right at the end of the chapter with Zipo Bibrok 5/108 and the nice member of the jury)
"A magician wandered along the beach, but no one needed him."
LOL, it's so random it's hilarious!
2) (From book 4, when Arthur and Fenchurch are falling down and Adams mentions Galileo Galilei)
"Arthur realized as he fell, giddily and sickeningly, that if he was going to hang around in the sky believing everything that the Italians had to say about physics when they couldn't even keep a simple tower straight, that they were in dead trouble, and damn well did fall faster than Fenchurch."
Yep, you just gotta like this style :-).

I just listened to the BBC radio show. Great stuff :P It's very accurate to the books

LOL if they would make a game about that magician you'll only have the intro followed by the credits :D