At best it's limited to individual "streams" of the Watch/Witches/Death. ![]() I just get so frustrated with people on this subreddit claiming that the order of the books doesn't, to a large extent, matter. The significance of that is completely lost without having read the previous books that provide the account of how the existence of female dwarves moves from a puzzling curiosity to being no different to there being female humans (with the addition of beards, of course). The gender of the dwarves was a tiny, passing line in Snuff. But rather the way the world acts: the role of belief, and how that shapes various events across the books how the politics change the slow industrialisation and modernisation how previously world changing events turn into run of the mill, everyday occurrences, such as the feministic movement in the dwarves, and how that changes their whole social interaction. It's not the introduction of races in such superficial ways as you suggest that I'm referring to. You don't have to read Carpe Jugulum before reading The Wee Free Men just because the Feegles are mentioned in the first book for two pages, or read Carpe Jugulum before The Truth just because there's a vampire in The Truth but they're first explored deeply in CJ.Ĭommits the opposite error you've massively underplayed the way in which the books work together. Okay, so maybe I over did it with the LotR analogy. And the Tolkien analogy betrays an understanding of both Tolkien and Pratchett. While I think the books are improved by reading in publication order, and each arc (wizards/witches/watch) should be read in publication order, I don't think they lose quite as much as you suggest in missing previous works. You don't have to read Carpe Jugulum before reading The Wee Free Men just because the Feegles are mentioned in the first book for two pages, or read Carpe Jugulum before The Truth just because there's a vampire in The Truth but they're first explored deeply in CJ. So all that's to say that it's okay to suggest a starting point that might capture the most interest. But The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic are funny satirical fantasy pastiches and are poorly paced, and Equal Rites is sort of a proto-witches book, whereas Witches Abroad or Lords and Ladies are lots of fun and the Tiffany Aching series really explores-deep down-what it means to be a witch. And to my utter dismay, aside from one or two I've skipped I've found myself out of boosk to read. I've read the Discworld series in chronological order. While I don't recommend that to others (particularly because LotR is written in a deliberate, plodding style that can be trying), we can see that readers who come to The Silmarillion or The Children of Húrin after reading LotR aren't missing anything by not reading them first. Interesting Times is the fifth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Except that The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King are just one book, The Lord of the Rings, published in three volumes because 1) major paper shortages and rationing post-war, and 2) 1200 page book.Īnd yes, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings can safely be read out of order as they are each separate, independent works that stand alone. 'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer 'Pratchett is a comic genius' Daily Express And, for some reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a vital role in the coming war. For the oldest empire on the Disc is in turmoil and Chaos is building. Once again Rincewind is thrown headfirst into a dangerous adventure. ![]() For one thing, he's the only one who spells wizard that way. So when a request for a 'Great Wizzard' arrives from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's obviously Rincewind who's sent. Unfortunately, the unlucky wizard always seems to end up in the middle of, well, absolutely everything. ![]() Especially for the magically challenged Rincewind, who has already had far too much excitement in his life. This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld. They say: may you live in interesting times.
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