Discworld novels
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Start of with "The Color of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic". If you still like the series then definately pick up "Night Watch" and "Soul Music".
Well, I've started reading it recently, and I'd say maybe just start with The Colour of Magic. It's the first one, and is really rather good. I would also recomend Mort, and Guards! Guards! as well.
I started with Maskerade, but I soon bought The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic. I recommend you start with those two, then work your way through the series from the very start in the order listed inside the "Other Books" section. That's the chronological order for the series and since a lot of story arcs and characters cross over quite often in minor roles, it's the only real logical way to read them. Any way is fine if you read the arcs in the right order, but for a logical reading it needs to be the complete series chronologically, else you might just end up slightly confused.
I've started reading the series recently and now I'm up to book seven, Pyramids.
So far, I loved Wyrd Sisters to bits. In the time-line it follows after Equal Rites, but you don't need to have read that one at all for Wyrd Sisters.
I love the witches, and Death is hilarious as well.
A friend of mine read them all and his favourite is Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in the series.
So far, I loved Wyrd Sisters to bits. In the time-line it follows after Equal Rites, but you don't need to have read that one at all for Wyrd Sisters.
I love the witches, and Death is hilarious as well.
A friend of mine read them all and his favourite is Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in the series.
just read them in order man, seriously. if you dont enjoy the first few, its likely you wont enjoy many of the others. But if you really dont want to read them all, start with "Guards! Gueards!" (my favourite) I think thats a good place to start
Voilà. It's just lacking a couple of the more recent ones.
Edit: Oh, nevermind, I've been beaten to it.
The Colour of Magic and Sourcery are both part of the Rincewind sub-series which goes in the order shown on the picture above. So yes, you should have read The Light Fantastic after The Colour of Magic and before Sourcery.
Personally my favourite sub-series would probably have to be the Watch one. The Rincewind ones were what got me into Discworld to begin with, and I still love them too, just a fraction less than the Watch ones. The Death novels are excellent too (Random Trivia: Death is the only character to appear in every Discworld novel, if only for a line.)
Edit: Oh, nevermind, I've been beaten to it.
Oh, no they are linked, just not all of them are. There are only a few of the Discworld novels that could be regarded as standalone, and even with those you'll get more out of them if you've read others written before them.Davey Woo said:
The Colour of Magic and Sourcery are both part of the Rincewind sub-series which goes in the order shown on the picture above. So yes, you should have read The Light Fantastic after The Colour of Magic and before Sourcery.
Personally my favourite sub-series would probably have to be the Watch one. The Rincewind ones were what got me into Discworld to begin with, and I still love them too, just a fraction less than the Watch ones. The Death novels are excellent too (Random Trivia: Death is the only character to appear in every Discworld novel, if only for a line.)
I pretty much read them in order, though I accidentally read Men At Arms before Guards! Guards! - didn't really hurt my enjoyment much if at all.
Read them in the order they were released. The primary plots of the books are generally self contained, except for the Rincewind books which really do lead on from one another. The problem though is the world around the characters changes from book to book. So you could get references to the leader of the AU in a later book and then suddenly find that in earlier books it was a different guy in charge of a much stricter University. Really as you read through the books you can actually see how the University changes.
