halfthyme said: going postal fucks, start there

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senseofparty said: Raising steam wasn’t great, I don’t think the author got the chance to really finish it before he passed away.

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armenelols said: A lot of people use the approach of ‘whatever my library has’. Purely depends on whether you want to follow a character arch or not. So if you want to start with Raising Steam, go for it - just keep in mind that since it’s the 40th Discworld book, it will have a lot of characters at the end of their arch. Few people start with the first book (I was one of them) 2/2

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armenelols said: Discworld has several subseries and stand-alones within it; the best approach is usually choosing one of those and following it. For example, there are City Watch books, Witches books, Death books. Raising Steam is the final book of the Moist von Lipwig trilogy, starting with Going Postal, which is imo a pretty good place to start. There are no rules, however - I’ve heard of people who started with some of the latest books in the series and were just fine. ½

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indigoocean said: just do going postal -> making money -> raising steam

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archdemoning said: Just read them in release order

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mini-starfruit said: Also if you want trains specifically jus start with going postal -> making money -> raising steam

mini-starfruit said: DO NOT start with either of the first 2 books (IMO). Pick up Equal Rites or Mort (3rd and 4th book respectively) and then read in order. The first two books are dry and boring and utterly unlike everything else in the series. Also, most of the books are standalone tales in a persistent world, so while reading in release order is probably more sensical, you can totally read the books in any order and still get lots out of them

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ishiishipow said: Please don’t start at the beginning. Pratchett took a bit to get his footing, and the first few books are NOT broadly representative of the whole of Discworld

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You should start with going postal to start the moist von lipwig, that’s a trio in the midst of it all that includes...

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definitelynotafox said: of course, starting at the beginning isnt a bad idea either, it’ll just take you longer to get to the trains

definitelynotafox said: you really dont have to read them in order at all, theyre kind of self contained stories set in the same world (except the second book, that is a direct sequel to the first one) there are sort of distinct arcs that follow throighout the books, so if that bothers you you can read “going postal” > “making money” > “raising steam”

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gracefullysaint said: Technically it is a series but everyone I’ve talked to doesn’t recommend starting with the first book? The “series” is more like a bunch of related books in the same world for the most part. There’s “mini-series”, so all of the Gaurds books kinda go together, all of the Moist von Lipwig books, and a few others. So for books about a specific character like that you might want to read them in order, but generally you can start with almost any book.

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Friendo, have you read raising steam by terry pratchett? I highly reccomend it. Its about a magical world where a man...