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[amireal]

Power outages. If you've never had one of these while asleep, be happy. They're more startling than when you're awake. The sudden lack of noise is deafening and (in my case) the follow up of various electronic devices making loud complaints that they've been disconnected is like a secondary mini heart attack while you're still trying to process

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[an_kayoh]

I don't think you can organize Pern and Discworld. Well, maybe, Discworld certainly has a leaping off point. But with Pern, I've always gotten in debates about which you should read first. The First Book must be read of course, but I never would have gotten into Anne McCaffrey if I hadn't read Dragonsdawn first.

I mean. Spaceships. Colonization. Inventory.

[temporalrose]

I tend to organize either chronologically or in order written, especially for series like Pern which have sub-trilogies and stand-alones. The hardest part, I think, is when you have books with concurrent timelines. I tend to think that for Pern, you should read them in order written at least for the first trilogy and Dragonsong etc because then everything else is either backstory or extrapolation. I have to agree on Dragonsdawn, though, possibly because it's so much more scifi than the others and I'm a sucker for colony fiction.
As for Discworld, I organize those by subgroups in chronological order, with the stand-alone books in one separate group. It's sort of wobbly order, though, since they're all really stand-alones and there's only a few main casts of characters.

[an_kayoh]

Very wobbly order, indeed. I think I just handed someone the Colour of Magic once, and told them I spoon feed them the rest.