I’d forgotten about him and his wife… might be time to read that series again. It’s my all time favorite. I can’t even tell you how many times i have read it or listened or watched! It’s a story that came into my life at just the right time and I can honestly say it was a singular in helping me survive my childhood
Small Gods is so fucking good, I can’t express how amazing in so many ways that book spoke to me. It’s more biblical than anything else I have ever read
Publication order is probably fine, though it takes a few books for him to settle into his general story structure. It’s not the only way, and unless you’re going to sprint through them in relatively quick succession it’s probably not the best way, as you may get lost in some of the focused character development.
This is a bit of an open question. Most of the books center around one or another subgroup of characters (City Watch, the wizards, the witches, Death, etc.), although there’s some overlap. The way I’ve been going through seems to be roughly the agreed upon “best” way: choose one of these sub-groups and read all the books that center around them in order, then move on to another.
Those sub-series are relatively self-contained, so I think you get more from exploring a theme from beginning to end than jumping from theme to theme. There are several tie-ins, but I don’t think they’re substantial enough to agonize over missing context.
Personally, I’d either start with Guards! Guards! or Going Postal, as they’re the beginnings of the more grounded sub-series and give you a good foundation of the world in general, and Ankh-Morpork in particular. But as long as you’re not skipping ahead in a sub-series, you should be fine.
The way I came into it was reading them all in order. I’m told this is not the best way and that there are flow charts.
But I like this way because I got to see how Sir Pterry evolved as an author and I got to see them in somewhat disjointed order rather than going through individual characters or arcs. It felt more like a fleshed out universe that way, and I love great universe building.
well, they tried to warn humans but alas they were only able to make out
So long, and thanks for all the fish
They did warn one person: Wonko the Sane.
He’s probably my favorite character in all the books.
I’d forgotten about him and his wife… might be time to read that series again. It’s my all time favorite. I can’t even tell you how many times i have read it or listened or watched! It’s a story that came into my life at just the right time and I can honestly say it was a singular in helping me survive my childhood
It’s my Torah.
Discworld is my Talmud.
Discworld is my new obsession
Small Gods is so fucking good, I can’t express how amazing in so many ways that book spoke to me. It’s more biblical than anything else I have ever read
I am so excited for you! I’ve been through all of it at least twice but I’ll never forget my first time.
I’ve heard so much great stuff about the series, but I’ve heard conflicting things about where to start.
If you were going to start over, never having read any of them, what would be your preferred order?
Publication order is probably fine, though it takes a few books for him to settle into his general story structure. It’s not the only way, and unless you’re going to sprint through them in relatively quick succession it’s probably not the best way, as you may get lost in some of the focused character development.
This is a bit of an open question. Most of the books center around one or another subgroup of characters (City Watch, the wizards, the witches, Death, etc.), although there’s some overlap. The way I’ve been going through seems to be roughly the agreed upon “best” way: choose one of these sub-groups and read all the books that center around them in order, then move on to another.
Those sub-series are relatively self-contained, so I think you get more from exploring a theme from beginning to end than jumping from theme to theme. There are several tie-ins, but I don’t think they’re substantial enough to agonize over missing context.
Personally, I’d either start with Guards! Guards! or Going Postal, as they’re the beginnings of the more grounded sub-series and give you a good foundation of the world in general, and Ankh-Morpork in particular. But as long as you’re not skipping ahead in a sub-series, you should be fine.
The way I came into it was reading them all in order. I’m told this is not the best way and that there are flow charts.
But I like this way because I got to see how Sir Pterry evolved as an author and I got to see them in somewhat disjointed order rather than going through individual characters or arcs. It felt more like a fleshed out universe that way, and I love great universe building.
This is the way