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Favourite reading order? (self.discworld)

submitted 2 months ago by f1ip to c/[email protected]

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There are many ways to read the series, obviously, so I am curious as to what are people's preferred method.

I read them chronologically by publishing date the first time, then once by theme (Watch, Witches, and Moist novels first) and then been reading books here and there kinda randomly (although when I read one Watch novel, I tend to read all of them to the end, plus Raising Steam).

What do others do?

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[–] regrub 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm following the Discworld Reading Order Guide 3.0 that I found once on wikipedia

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0_%28cropped%29.jpg

[–] Makeitstop 2 points 2 months ago

I followed an earlier version of this and think it works well.

I am confused by the note saying the author said to start at Sourcery. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Pratchett say to start with Mort and skip Sourcery?

[–] f1ip 1 points 2 months ago

Hum, had never seen that one. I used this one: https://i.imgur.com/1Khmn9X.jpeg to figure out where to start but ended up doing chronological anyway.

It is interesting that even Pratchett (GNU Terry Pratchett!) seemed to think the first two were meh considering what came after them.