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Is the publication order a good order?

>> No.22100748

>>22100628
Yes

>> No.22100759

It's fine but there's also a chart you can follow

>> No.22100890

>>22100628

The books change over the series. They start out as toungue in cheek sword and sorcery and end up as something else.

Later ones feel like books that are meant to satire modern life through fantasy lens but I don't think they quite land.

Read 25 maybe 30 of the core series as a teen. Reread a few as an adult. The first ones are great. Read publishing order until you feel you've seen enough.

>> No.22100993

>>22100628
You can't go wrong with it, but I started just randomly reading after the first 4. Latest one I read was Small Gods, which was pretty rad.

>> No.22101051

>>22100628
I just randomly read them in any order. It rarely matters outside of a few cases.
Currently reading Reaper Man and honestly this one isn't really doing it for me. My favourites so far have been The Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic and Going Postal. They were the most entertaining as far as I'm concerned.

>> No.22101223

>>22100628
Yes, but otherwise try the first in a series:

The Colour of Magic or Sourcery for Rincewind
Equal Rites or Wyrd Sisters for the witches
Mort for DEATH
Guards! Guards! for the Nightwatch
Pyramids, Small Gods, or Moving Pictures

Rincewind and The Witches have two starting points as they differ tonally in character and plot. They're still the same characters but moving forward Pratchett changed them a bit to suit an ongoing series.

Lots of characters feature in the other works.

Such a comfy series.

>> No.22101447

>>22100890
>Later ones feel like books that are meant to satire modern life
You mean the earlier ones aren't?
The basic joke behind The Colour of Magic is that humans are the gods' RPG characters.

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>>22100628
>>22100759
I read the Watch series first and that's still my favorite storyline, but publication order is fine too

>> No.22101556

>>22101501
>No Raising Steam at the end of the Industrial Revolution storyline
How old is this chart?

>> No.22101589

>>22101556
at least 10 years, but pratchett's been dead for 8 so by the time you make it to anything not on the chart you won't even need a chart