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These books are so comfy and give me a chuckle at least once a page. Just finished Lords and Ladies. What's your favorite book?

>> No.23406319

I really liked Night Watch as a culmination of the city watch stories.

>> No.23406492

>>23406299
>What's your favorite book?
Lords and Ladies. Rounding out my top 5 favorites would be Small Gods, Carpe Jugulum, Going Postal/Making Money (tie) and Night Watch. The Tiffany Aching books and Maurice and His Educated Rodents are also surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting much going into them as they were ostensibly "for younger readers" but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them along with the rest.

My 5 least favorite would be Maskerade, Soul Music, Moving Pictures, Eric and probably Interesting Times.

>> No.23406559

>>23406299
small gods

>> No.23407620
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23407620

Where do I pick up a Magrat waifu irl?

>> No.23407628

>>23407620
The ugly store

>> No.23407635

>>23406299
Small Gods is probably my favorite, Mort and Monstrous Regiment are up there too. And whatever the one is where Vimes goes back in time, Night's Watch I think?

Oh, and Making Money. Fantastic, hilarious look at the banking industry. I work in finance and use the golems metaphor for central banking reserves regularly.

>> No.23407691

Are you supposed to read in release order or just pick a random book to start with?

>> No.23407742
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>>23407691
For the most part, they're written so you can just pick up any random book, but there is continuity in the various stories.

>> No.23408146

Where should I start with Discworld? Never read any, but I like comfy books. Any quick recs?

>> No.23408246

I never cared about this, saw a short film about an old "Cohen" the barbarian or some shit, is this a fantasy parody?

>> No.23408317

>>23406319
Undoubtedly the best of the series by a significant margin.

>> No.23408393

>>23406299
Never read any, but plan to. Currently reading Narnia and I am getting the same fuzziness inside me, keeping my inner child alive and well. :)

>> No.23408399

>>23406299
lolrandom junk

>> No.23408411

>>23407742
I don't understand: are these comics or books?

>> No.23408424

>>23408411
Novels.

>> No.23408426

>>23406299
Isn't it for children? I read a bit of one of the books one day and it was the kind of flat and easy humour that you find in teenage litterature. Not really my thing.

>> No.23408447

>>23408426
It's for retarded children.

>> No.23408452

>>23408424
Dont be pedantic

>> No.23408597

>>23408452
We're on /lit/, mate.

>>23408447
Shut up, you prickly prick.

>> No.23408626

>>23408411
Anybody else wanna chine in?

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>>23408411
They're comical books

>> No.23409678

>>23408146
Personally, I think the best first book is The Color of Magic, since it sets the stage for the rest of the series. However, any of the leftmost books on that list are good starting points.

>> No.23409699

>>23408426
Most of the humor in the series is gonna go over a child's head.

>> No.23410536

They're great at start, been reading them in chronological order through the years, but from around Interesting Times onwards Ive noticed a drop of quality, with succeeding each book being either my least favourite or close to it.

>>23407691
Always read in chronological order, authors tend to start referencing events from other books and so on, its retarded to follow charts like >>23407742

>> No.23410803

>>23409678
That's where I will start, thank you
In terms of leftmost, you mean on this chart >>23407742?
There are so many, I might have to try find a list of chronological order releases

>> No.23411063

>>23408393
Narnia is so much better than the movies make it seem. Most people's experience with this series is the movies and it's a shame. They censored a lot of it.

>> No.23411268

the audio books narrated by Nigel Planer are really good, I listened to all the yellow ones in this infographic:
>>23407742

love me some nigel planar

>> No.23411861

>>23411063
Not big on his Christian allegories, but Magician's Nephew got me hooked and I am half theough the first novel.

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Mort is awesome fr on god, I was buzzin the entire time no cap.

>> No.23413070

>>23408246
Yes. He's got a daughter too. My favorite parody character is Casanunda, the dwarf. Dude is 100% rizz

>> No.23413081

>>23406299
Does he name the jew?

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>>23410803
Here's a more digestible chart, still a mess to look at but it works. The mainline books are the outer ring in chronological order clockwise.

>> No.23414043

>>23406299
going postal and making money are my two fav. wish we could have got just one more of those.

>> No.23414074

>>23406299
Discworld Noir
>Urm, but that's a game
Yeah, and it's got great writing and I swear NOBODY talks about it. Damn shame too, Terry really should've written more noir stuff.