TOO MANY BOOKS!

[amireal]

Okay not, but too many books without a lot of helpful information

Comments

[wistfuljane]

For Discworld: The L-Space's Reading Order Guides. I would recommend reading Color of Magic first.

[_inbetween_]

Normally, so would I (big stickler for chronological reading), but if you're not sure you'll like Pratchett, ami, then starting with Equal Rites or Mort is a bigger incentive to continue (in order then).

[trobadora]

My recommendation would be to start with the Watch novels. They were what hooked me on Discworld - I enjoyed the others, but with these I fell in love.

[an_kayoh]

I second the Watch. If Guards, Guards doesn't immediately pull you in, proceed to the first novels of the other threads.

[_inbetween_]

I know most later readers say so, esp. men, but I didn't like the middle Watch novels. Too conventional. Loved Clay Feet again, but it's very late in the oeuvre, and reading the earlier books after these takes away the cumulative A-HA enjoyment. When characters are already friends who used to be foes in earlier novels, for example.

[adannu]

Heh, I started with Small Gods, I think.

[_inbetween_]

*-i- iz OLD*

(but yeah, great book - only - what I said below applies, it takes away enjoyment of the earlier novels to see the characters at their more advanced stages)