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Why give them unique shapes in the legend and then proceed to NOT use them in the actual diagram? ,`:•|
I bow to your superior emoticon use :o
Lol I never noticed that
Because someone really dislikes colour blind people :P
comedy
I’m one of those heathens that read through for the first time in publication order. The ancient civilization side trips were a bit disorienting at first but I managed.
I’m considering that for my next read through.
I just finished The Last Continent next up is Carpe Jugulum
Don’t sleep on Small Gods, it’s incredibly good.
my personal favorite after decades of dedicated fandom, and self-contained enough that it’s one I recommend everyone start with.
That was the first one I read, and it got me hooked. Very good stand alone book with minimal references to the rest of the series.
Holy crap the Watch series are so good.
It’s good right up until the last two books or so (thinking specifically of Snuff, but also Raising Steam here), where Vimes becomes a complete parody of himself, and there is also a large drop in quality.
Maybe Pratchett’s disease had something to do with it.
raising steam was disjointed and its second half felt like a farewell to the discworld. and yeah, snuff is just a rambling mess.
I’ve kinda been wanting to get into the disc world books for awhile but fuck, this looks intimidating.
Meh, read 'em in order. I was all but done with the series when I saw posts like this.
You can read them any which way you like. I started with Hogfather because it sounded wild. If you go in order you catch more of the jokes and characters from the previous books.
The opposite. There’s no need to read all of them. Each is self contained. So this amount just means you have a lot more to consume of you liked them
Not only is each self-contained, but I have found that each “sub-series”- if I can call them that- has a different vibe from the other, and are oftentimes entirely unrelated. So it’s not like you’re missing out on part of the story you were reading in Mort and Reaper Man by not reading a Rincewind book. Not many people actually read every book anyway.
Should be the opposite, there’s a lot of options for where to start.
Just read Small Gods, which is fully self-contained and incidentally my favorite. If you like it, pick up another one and go from there. Most of the books are relatively short but all the ones I’ve read so far are amazing.
Sir Terry Pratchett.
I’m so confused.
Basically, while all of the novels take place in the discworld, different books in the series focus on different groups of characters, making it so that there are different subseries within the series. A lot of people choose to read the subseries in order instead of going through the books in publication order. This is also because the first two books, while not bad, have a very different tone from the later books. They’re kind of straight parodies of heroic fantasy rather than being more focused on the unique setting and characters within the discworld.
So most people would recommend starting with one of the major subseries. The city watch books start with Guards Guards (this is probably the most popular subseries). The witches start with Equal Rites. Death starts with Mort. And Rincewind starts with The Color of Magic. Or you could pick one of the stand alone books to get a taste of Pratchett’s style without continuity. Small Gods is probably the best choice for this IMO.
I appreciate your explanation and recommendation. Just wanted to second how incredibly confusing this guide is. According to you, starting with Small Gods is a good place. But in this “guide” that’s the 8th row, 3rd column, and not colored as a starter book.
This guide seems more fit for someone who’s already read the books, rather than being useful for someone looking as a place to start.
I agree that this guide isn’t very easy to follow. It also seems to be attempting to show additional subseries like “industrial revolution”, which is sort of an ongoing theme across different subseries but not necessarily something that stands on its own (I would consider Moving Pictures or The Truth more standalone books). Or the history monks that pop up in several scattered books but aren’t exactly major characters for the most part. That said, there’s not exactly a wrong place to start so long as you’re willing to give the first few books a little leeway, somewhat like the first season of a longer TV show.
Funny how you made this post now. I decided to get into Discworld very recently and finished Mort just the day before.
Mort.
Don’t kill me but I finally started reading Discworld. I saw this image and after reading some posts I ended up reading Guards! Guards! It was great and can’t wait to read another
Does reading this count as reading one of the books
I asked Pratchett’s ghost. He said it didn’t matter.
Did Pratchett really recommend starting with sourcery? I’ve been stumped for years on where to start
I think pterry was personally fond of Rincewind as a character, which may have influenced this recommendation.
Me: fuck your reading order - I read “the fifth elephant” as my first book.
Mine was “Eric”
Small Gods was mine. If I’d started with the Rincwind books I might never have finished any of them.
I JUST bought the books on humble!
This is great.
I grabbed the humble book bundle a while ago, so this will be really useful. Thanks.
Edit: what category are the purple books?
The Tiffany Aching books are a young adult subseries that spins off from the witches series. Very much worth reading even if you’re not huge on YA stuff, especially since they essentially finish off the witches storyline.
Young Adult.
As others have said “Young Adult,” but they’re not significantly different from the rest of the series imo. Protagonist in most is a child versus adults as in the rest of the books and they lack the off-color jokes and occasional swearing of the main series. Stories in the YA novels are about the same level of complexity as the others, and the violence is about the same, too.
One reader’s opinion.
Moist
