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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.
Did Pratchett really recommend starting with sourcery? I’ve been stumped for years on where to start
Why give them unique shapes in the legend and then proceed to NOT use them in the actual diagram? ,`:•|
Funny how you made this post now. I decided to get into Discworld very recently and finished Mort just the day before.
Mort.
Ok but where do I start?
There’s a lot of opinions on this. I found Small Gods to be a good jumping in place because it’s a stand alone book and late enough that he had found the tone he wanted for the series. But a lot of other people recommend picking a subseries and starting with the first book there. The Vimes books are very popular so a lot of people recommend Guards, Guards as a starting point.
The reason a lot of people don’t recommend publishing order is that the first two books are written in a very different style to the later ones. They’re pretty straight parodies of heroic fantasy. But Pratchett becomes so much more later.
Witches look self-contained. For the rest, pick a group and read up to before the series crossover, then proceed to the next series’s starting book
Witches aren’t bad to start it’s where I did. But I recommend ending with Tiffany Aching. The shepherds crown wasn’t intended to be the final book, he was writing until he died and would’ve kept going if he could’ve, but it is the perfect final book.
I’d say start with Rincewind, Witches, or Death. City Watch is good too but it’ll hit you hard with Industrial Revolution stuff and is very much the story of the world progressing as people try to deal with it.
I recommend ending with Tiffany Aching.
I heartily agree. It reads like a beautiful capstone on Sir Terry Pratchett’s life’s work.
You can do whatever I think, either read them by series (rincewind, witches, city guard, etc.) or by publishing order, starting with the colour of magic.
I recommend Mort
That’s where I started. Wouldn’t have had it any other way. What a great book.
The death series and the witches series are both great starting points imo but you really can’t go wrong with any point and just meandering around
