The Color of Magic is terrible. The first few Discworld books are pretty bad, and anything with Rincewind (whom he seems to have dropped as a character) is highly skippable.
The thing with Pratchett is that he gets better as he goes along, so the beginnings of some arcs are a bit weak. The Vimes/Guards books do benefit from being read in order, though. Um. I forget which one is the first.
My favorites are the Vimes/Guards books, the YA books (Maurice and Tiffany Aching), the Granny Weatherwax books, the Death books, and some of the stand-alones... which is everything but the Rincewind books, some of the early stand-alones, and some of the Susan books, I realize.
Soul Music is entertaining but slight. I love Hogfather, and that would be a good choice to read next because it's a Death book. The Unseen University cracks me up, but I forget which ones it features.
Of the stand-alones, Going Postal and The Truth are both excellent but thematically and narratively similar, so I wouldn't read them in close succession. Small Gods is excellent but more predictable.
Pratchett has quite a few practical girls and women. They're most featured in the Granny Weatherwax, Tiffany Aching, and Susan books, and in Monstrous Regiment. There's several in the Guards, too.
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Thu, Jul. 12th, 2007 12:13 am (UTC)The thing with Pratchett is that he gets better as he goes along, so the beginnings of some arcs are a bit weak. The Vimes/Guards books do benefit from being read in order, though. Um. I forget which one is the first.
My favorites are the Vimes/Guards books, the YA books (Maurice and Tiffany Aching), the Granny Weatherwax books, the Death books, and some of the stand-alones... which is everything but the Rincewind books, some of the early stand-alones, and some of the Susan books, I realize.
Soul Music is entertaining but slight. I love Hogfather, and that would be a good choice to read next because it's a Death book. The Unseen University cracks me up, but I forget which ones it features.
Of the stand-alones, Going Postal and The Truth are both excellent but thematically and narratively similar, so I wouldn't read them in close succession. Small Gods is excellent but more predictable.
Pratchett has quite a few practical girls and women. They're most featured in the Granny Weatherwax, Tiffany Aching, and Susan books, and in Monstrous Regiment. There's several in the Guards, too.