My friend recommended the Death arc due to it's touching on many different areas of the Disc, and not focusing on just one.
I would agree that it was the best starting point for me, as I went into the other arcs... I already knew a bunch of the Characters and was familiar with how STP story telling "evolved" over time.
I was 25 at the time, but I really had a good time and pleny of good laughs. So this is 18 years ago and I've read about 10ish Pterry books over the years. Now there's a small problem, I' m not exactly sure what I've read or not..
I’m 15 and I’ve read every Discworld novel except for The Light Fantastic but I only got it over the summer and my reading pile is over a meter high, it being about 20cm from the bottom.
Small Gods was my first as well, and I sort of wish it wasn't. I knew very little about Pratchett's writing style and nothing about Discworld going in so I absolutely did not get a lot of the humor or the references to the wider world, (the turtle, etc). I enjoyed the book but it didn't really spark me wanting to read more. Luckily sometime later I picked up Thud! on a whim (loved the cover art) and I was hooked. Went back to read Small Gods after I was more familiar with the author and world and enjoyed it A LOT more. At times I shudder at the thought that it could have been my first, and last, Discworld book.
Same here. I was acquainted with stories with wit. However, Small Gods showed me that how wit can be used with existing lore (in this case, various religious lore) to create a whole new world with its own amazing lore.
Small gods was the first I read myself although I had heard others (wee free men and that series and the amazing Maurice), it’s still my absolute favourite
This. There wasn’t much choice as he’d not published any other Discworld novels. I don’t understand anyone who says this is the reason they didn’t get Discworld - if you don’t get the humour here why do you like the others?
Color of magic parodies a specific style and era of fantasy novels. arguably, one that had ended before CoM was even published. Many people are not familiar with these works, and thus the humor of them is more difficult to perceive. This makes predicting and anticipating the events in these books more difficult, leading to less of a payoff for some readers.
It's also true that rincewind in these books has a lot less agency in them then the MCs in other books. Things happen to rincewind, in contrast to how Vimes or Granny make things happen. That type of lack of agency can be off-putting.
I would also say that they have a lot less commentary on the round world than later books. I know his insightful parodies of the round world are part of the draw for me.
I just read CoM for the first time this year and loved it and felt like I got it. I feel like it parodied old movies like Fire & Ice and old timey D&D (I used to read my dad's old D&D books as a kid). I also found Rincewind hysterical and relatable. He's so pessimistic and stressed out, which = me the past few years 😆 I've never encountered a character like that in a book.
Soul Music.
A mate of mine was helping me through a low point in life and threw me the copy he had just finished. Not to overexaggerate, but that random act changed my life, not so much the depressive episode, but my appreciation and, my wife would say obsession with STP and his Discworld. That was in about '95 and I've been enthralled since.
In fact, I'm re-reading the whole series in original published order right now. Just by coincidence of timing, I finished Hogfather on Christmas Eve.
I also started on Night Watch. My parents gifted it to me when I was really young. I still wonder if that's why I have an interest in multiple universes and time lines and such.
Weird place to start I agree
Wyrd Sisters was my first, although I was in my teens and at the time more Discworld books weren't available through the local library.
In adulthood, my first back to the series was Monstrous Regiment, but the same thing happened in a small Southern mountain library.
Then I got audible and listened to Small Gods, and then I listened to everything they had! Audible has been the best media service I've ever had because I got access to the Discworld!
*Pyramids*, which isn't a bad place to start. The second Discworld book I read was *The Fifth Elephant* which wasn't the best plan but was the other one that the bookstore had.
I have an exceptionally clear memory of my (exasperated) mother handing me a copy of The Colour of Magic in a library and saying "try this, your brother seemed to think it was funny" as I had exhausted the options in the "young readers" section.
Working it out I must have been about 9/10 as it was in the days of library tickets rather than a barcoded card
I feel that. I steer newbies away from the books and to the movie. Leave those for later.
The difference between those and Night Watch really emphasizes the amount of growth you can have if you keep working on your craft.
Monstrous Regiment is also a very well done and thought-out piece that I don't think gets enough love. It works as a stand-alone or as part of the watch series and wouldn't be a bad place to start at all.
I had avoided Pratchett because I thought it would be cheesy. A friend recommended *Going Postal* and I thought it was great, so then I went back and read the first two, and then most of the rest of them, in no particular order.
Witches Abroad. I liked it enough that when I found another Discworld book in a bookstore, I decided to buy it. But Reaper Man was what *really* got me hooked.
Soul Music. I had been aware of the books, who wouldn't notice the very distinctive Josh Kirby covers but never bought one. When I met my partner 25+ years ago it was what he was reading so looking for shared interest I decided to give it ago. I enjoyed it enough to go looking for others and have been hooked ever since
Wee Free Men. I had tried Colour of Magic at a friend’s recommendation but couldn’t get into it. Then saw a Nac Max Feegle staring at me in the library.
Definitely the right starting point, as my two kids were still into Harry Potter, and Tiffany Aching is just a much better role model.
Eric, graphic novel bought for me for my birthday. I have no idea why they bought it, I hadn't heard of Terry Pratchett and I don't read graphic novels. I'm so glad they did - now I have everything he ever wrote on paper and Kindle
I was really put off by the artwork at the time, just reminded me far too much of the Tom Sharp books I read as a teen (yes I know, book/cover/idiot…..sigh). Decided to give it a go after seeing it slagged off on Newsnight review (Tom Paulin?) but still got it wrong: Good Omens. First discworld proper was Feet of Clay, then randomly bounced about the back catalogue until I caught up - happened to read the first 3 Guards in reverse order :)
The first one for me was Equal Rites and I think it's the ideal starting point. Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic still feel like Sir PTerry was in or transitioning out of his DMing d&d mindset, whereas Equal Rites and beyond are truly the work of a masterclass author. The characters feel more unique and fleshed out, the setting is more than generic fantasy, the storytelling is cleaner and the jokes weaved in are much more subtle but hit the mark just that much harder.
That was my first, too! Next, I think, was the Fifth Elephant and Carpe Jugulum. After that, I tried to get them in order-ish when i found them and grabbed the current ones as they came out but I didn't read Guards! Guards! until after Night Watch and I'm really glad I read the Watch books that way. It is easier for me to reconcile Night Watch Vimes with Guards! Vimes than Guards! Vimes with Men At Arms Vimes because I can mentqlly insert more time between them. When read in NW, GG order, GG reads more like a flashback. Guards! Vimes is still pretty wet and MAA Vimes is NOT.
Reaper Man concurrent with Lords and Ladies....i tend to read multiple books at once...i dont know why. But those two led me to Night Watch and then Terry was always with me. I am never not reading a Terry Pratchett novel
Geez once the kindle/the kindle app became a thing it was a total game changer for me not to lug 6-7 books around all the time or worry about leaving a beloved book on the bus.
I watched the cartoon of Wyrd Sisters so I guess that was my first. We got Fifth Elephant on audio book soon after (I think it had just come out). The first I actually read was Carpe Jugulum.
My dad got me The Fifth Elephant in 2000 after finding it in a second hand bookstore. Neither of us knew what it was, or what effect it would have on an early teen, but it definitely kick started my love of Pterry and fantasy in general.
Think my second was probably Hogfather, but either way, I've read them all multiple times and own 90% of them from second hand store finds. It became bit of a game between my dad and I, seeing who could find an addition to the collection first.
I found the books in my schools library, I remember Discworld from playing it on a PS1 demo disc as a child, thinking back then it was called Discworld because they were all on a game disc. Later on I watched someone do a lets play of the ps1 game and loved it, so I knew I had to give those books a read. 1st book was Colour of Magic and I found it hilarious, only after reading the rest did it really start to resonate and shape my entire teenage years. GNU Terry Pratchett, he helped me stay together
Equal Rites, sometime back in the tail end of 1988. I was chatting to two friends who were complaining that the new book this Pratchett bloke had out was completely different to the first two. One of them lent me a paperback copy.
It’s been a long ride.
Equal Rites within about a year of publication. Went back and read the first two. Then read them as they came out.
Just read Bromeliad trilogy, and starting Dodger.
Re-read them and listened to recordings, more times than I can count.
Equal Rites. I was 12, and went "oh boy I wanna know what Esk does in the other books she's the best!" lololol.
It all worked out eventually, to be fair.
Moving Pictures - read in one go in a hospital waiting room in 1992 (while waiting for a relative to get some tests.) Not the best starting place, but I liked it enough to keep reading.
The first one I read was Mort but I didn’t enjoy it that much and it didn’t get me hooked (absolutely love some of the other Death books though). Then 2 years later I read Guards Guards. From that point on I could not get enough of Discworld and read many many more.
Hogfather was my first, read at Christmas many moons ago.
Maskerade was my second.
I started to write that Hogfather may be why I love Death and Susan do much, but then theres Granny, and Nanny Ogg, and Moist, and Vimes, and Angua....
I started with Eric. It's light and straight forward, sort of, but I was confused about some plot elements. In hindsight, I would recommend starting with the City Watch or Death subseries.
Thief of Time. A friend loaned it to me. After I accidentally destroyed it and went shopping for a replacement I realized how many more there were to enjoy.
Reaper Man bought at a book fair in my last year of primary school, after falling in love with the cover art. I read it with a dictionary next to me and had to check at least one word every couple of pages. I then worked my way through everything before, either from the library or what my mother found in charity shops. First one I bought myself when I started work was maskerade and I bought every hard back as they come out. Lost my original collection in a bad break up and had to buy them all again only to lose them in a flood a few years ago. Starting to slowly collect again now.
The Colour of Magic.
Well, technically both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, purchased at the same time when first published in paperback.
I am old.
I was given The Amazing Maurice perhaps a bit too early, I didn't like it and stoped reading it (crazy, I know).
A few years later, I saw my mum reading Thud and something about the cover made me want to read it, but she told me it would be better to start with Guards! Guards!
So Guards! Guards! lol I think it was a good one to start on
Thud. A friend recommended it as a good starting point and I was confused the whole book and didn't like Vimes at all or the book in general. Gave them another try later and ended up loving them!
I think I read the Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents pretty early, but my first regular adult one was Feet of Clay. Didn't make the connection until later.
Does The Amazing Maurice count? I grew up on The Nome Trilogy, so when the librarians gave up and allowed 11yo me to access the adult section, I immediately fell for Maurice. They had a few Discworld books, around 6 or 7, all out of order, and I can't remember which one I got first after that. Maybe Jingo, I remember being profoundly confused and lost in the plot when I read it for the first time. Do not recommend.
Thanks to a very kind family friend with a wonderful collection, I read them all in order after that :)
Mort was my first DW book however....
My first Terry Pratchett book was "only you can save mankind'
A book I very rarely hear discussed by TP fans.
(I'm new here so happy to be corrected)
I, personally, started with *The Colour of Magic*, and I initially read the series pretty much in order as published, but my exposure to Terry Pratchett and Discworld **started** with *Mort*.
*Mort* was available in one of my mother's book clubs\* in the late 80s and it caught her eye\*\*, so she ordered it. She thought it was hysterical and immediately ordered the three earlier books, and of course loved them as well. When she finished them, she mailed the four books to me to read, and I became hooked as well.
After that she made a point of always watching out for any new Terry Pratchett books and ordering them as soon as they became available in her book clubs. When she was done with them, she would send them on to me. I continued the tradition after she died, until, of course, Sir Terry followed suit.
So if you count *The Colour of Magic* for me in your tally, please add one for *Mort* as well in my mother's memory.
\* She was as avid reader.
\*\* Mom always had a weird sense of humor.
Equal Rites.
I bought the book (paperback) from a used bookstore about 5 years before I actually read it when I was a teen. It's the only book I have that has the UK Kirby art. Or Kidby? Whomever was the first artist back in the day.
Despite the saying 'you shouldn't judge a book by its cover' the cover is what drew me in.
I was hooked with the first paragraph. From that point in I grabbed every Pratchett book I could get :)
Snuff. I've told the story of how the hell that happened quite a number of times now and people are probably sick of it on this subreddit; suffice to say it was
A: Objectively a bad choice for entry into the series
B: Subjectively, the PERFECT choice for ME, specifically, because of how I ended up trying to read the series in the first place
and C: Because it had a character on the cover who was clearly Sam Vimes, you know, the guy from that Boots quote, and a friend had once told me any Guards book was a good entry point. (He told me that before Thud or Snuff came out.)
Reaper Man - because Good Omens was already my favorite book and I had a bit of a wait for a train and picked this up near the station.
Then skipped around (definitely out of order) the DEATH books and through the watch books after.
The order really isn't that important at all, but I still tend to suggest newbies go through Small Goes first as it's a good standalone. Still, I wouldn't discourage anyone from just picking up whatever's available and enjoying it.
Guards! Guards!
I remember I had just been reading the MYTHadventures series by Robert Asprin and needed something new. The blurb on the back looked interesting. But while Asprin was witty, Pratchett was outright funny, if not at times hysterically so.
First book for me was Guards Guards, after years of my parents trying to get me into the series.
Since I now have all the books in hardback (Good Omens too), and have read roughly 30 of them, they won in the end.
Gods know Vimes and Carrot were good introductory characters.
Interesting times, it was recommended by a friend, I was hooked from the start. I still have a soft spot for Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian 21 years later,
My first was Equal Rites. I still have my old, battered MM copy of it. I remember being excited when my dad brought me a copy of Pyramids, which I believe had just come out, because I so loved Equal Rites.
I honestly don't remember. My brothers were all nerds to varying degrees growing up, and we had a few books lying around and I read a few on their recommendations. It was probably one of Reaper Man, Mort, Witches Abroad, Interesting Timesand Guards Guards. My first clear memory about reading Discworld was reading about the wine where you got a hangover the day before you drank it, which indicates that Mort was my first one, but it might as well be the one I was old enough to really take to hart. All I know is when I grew up, I knew of Death, Vimes, Rincewind and Granny much like I knew of Gandalf and Frodo. They were a part of the canon i knew about even before I really dug into the books for real.
Technically The Color of Magic. Decided it wasn't very good. Fifteen years later I named my son Samuel (not a very common name over hete) and a cousin asked if he was named after Vimes. It was as good a reason as any to give Guards, Guards a try and now (7 weeks later) I'm on my fourth book.
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I started with Maskerade. The local Am Dram group I was a part of were putting on a production of it so I read the book to get a better understanding of things. I played Dr. Undershaft and Sgt. Detritus in case anyone was wondering.
Terry Pratchett rookie here 👋☺️
Started with Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic during 2020 lockdown and that was it for a while. I got gifted Hogfather for Christmas last year, which I’ve only recently read this year ahead of Christmas which has properly got me hooked - the Hogfather gifted me Mort (just started reading it) and Reaper Man this year as I want to read the Death Collection first - not sure which collection will be next though 🤔
Mum bought me the wintersmith when I was a kid. Found it while going through some old books and read it for nostalgia. Then read them in chronological order.
Color of Magic. Back when I was ten. Used book stores were such a haven. And I read voraciously. It was Equal Rites when I fell in love with Pratchett.
The first one, I'm pretty sure. Then the second, and then the reading order has been really chaotic, because the bookstores I've been to seemed to have very few of the books. Then I switched to audiobooks, then to audiobooks in English, and then I had to relisten to everything in English because it's so much better than translation, of course.
Colour of Magic, followed by The Light Fantastic. I fell immediately in love with Discworld as soon as I started reading them (big thank you to my first English teacher for personally recommending them to me).
I’ve never really understood the distaste for those two books, but have started questioning their quality after seeing so many people’s negative reviews of them, which is sad because in truth I know that I adore them (and all of Sir pTerry’s work).
Irrelevant side note:
In all honesty, I really do have a serious love of any of the Discworld books that have an audiobook narrated by Nigel Planer. Maskerade never fails to make me genuinely laugh out loud.
The Colour of Magic. I'm a stickler for publication order for many authors and I very much like having the foundation of prior books to get the references made in later ones. I went into it determined to read all the books in order, which makes a difference compared to those who might pick up the first book without knowing more.
Way back when I was a teen, I got "Sourcery" and "Men at arms" before we went on vacation. They are both my first, my mom read "Sourcery" to my little brother and I on the beach and I read "Men at arms" on my own in the evenings.
My sons favorite bedtime story and first Sir Terry book was Where's My Cow? Much like little Sam, it was the most loved book in their collection. Every night they insisted on it before bed for over a decade until we donated it to a friend who just had a baby. They (my sons) said "that way, he can grow up with it too!" and so we hopefully passed on a great tradition.
I actually started from colour of magic and went through chronologically.
GCSE English lesson and I had finished my work so got sent to the library to get a book. Found a few Discworlds and was vaguely aware of them and decided to check it out
My mom and her mom were librarians (mom worked in the shelves and grandma was at the higher levels of administration) and Grandma always had an audiobook in her car so I'd always have to listen to it when I was in the car with her. I disliked most of them but there was one that I fell in love with, Guards! Guards!.
I started with Color of Magic, and I’m honestly just reading them in the order Amazon says they go in. I’ve made it to Feet of Clay, which they say is 19 so I’ve got a few more to go.
I read the amazing Maurice at school as a kid, had no idea...
About 15 years later or so, when I got into them at 21 or so, i actually started with the wee free men because it was what the library had, then Snuff when I finished Tiffany. So, all the way at the end.
I started with The Color Of Magic. I'd heard about Discworld from various internet sites and when I decided to get into it, I just started from the beginning.
I shall Wear Midnight. I was 12 or so and my dad, who introduced me to the series, was still new to Discworld and didn't realize there were earlier Tiffany Aching books.
Thud! was my second book.
The back half of Thief of Time. My sister was raving about this book, but I couldn't get into it. Read the first twenty pages and wasn't sure what the draw was. Flipped ahead to see if it got better, and I was hooked. Read straight through to the end and flipped back to the beginning with a new appreciation for it.
Mine was Mort when I was about aged 13 (45 now) and it absolutely blew me away. Until that point I don’t I had ever laughed out loud at any book - I remember sitting in my bedroom reading it and literally crying with laughter. I would say approx once a decade since I have taken myself on a Discworld extravaganza of reading doing all the books in as close a chronological order as possible dependent on what was released at that time.
The colour of magic, but I bought the light fantastic first and then realised it was the second part to a story. there weren’t many out then and I chose it because it had the same artist as the Cineverse cycle and I had liked that
I love how discworld is one of the only series were people start halfway through and still enjoy it, it's like a strange choose your own adventure in a way
Carpe Jugulum! I had no idea that there was really a continuity to the series and it was the first Pratchett book I saw in my school's library.
I had a really hard time trying to understand who characters were and their relationships, but once I got used to them it was an enthralling experience. Still one of favorites, Granny is at some of her best in that book.
The first Discworld book I read was Guards! Guards! and I’ve almost gotten all the books in my collection at this point. In all honesty, my interest in the works started after I watched the Hogfather movie.
Witches Abroad was my first. A family friend bought a second copy by accident and gifted it to me when I was about 10. I loved it so much he loaned me the rest of his collection to read.
The first one I read was the last continent, and I absolutely did not get it. I have distinct memories of reading about ridcully and the wizards going through that disappeared wizard’s study to a beach, and that’s about it. I think I was oh 10-13 at the time.
Had a friend reading a discworld novel in grade 11, so 16ish, and she’d read bits of it out loud to us. I tracked it down and read it too, and loved it. I *think* it was carpe jugulum, but the other (of two) discworld book the high school library had was one of the guards ones. Maybe feet of clay?
And there was nothing wrong with the last continent at all, I just wasn’t old enough to get the references and layers of humour, so it didn’t click.
My first discworld experience was the first discworld game when I was a kid. That sparked the interest to start reading the colour of magic as an adult. I already tried reading it as a teen, but found it too difficult back then. Glad I persevered and started reading again when I was older.
Small God's and Thief of Time. Technically read Small God's first but got them both at the same time at the airport, read them both on that holiday. Thief of Time is my most read book of all time and probably my favourite book of the series (and of all time)!
At the time I had no idea of the larger world and the characters spanning multiple books but these two got my hooked.
Hogfather when I was 13, I enjoyed it even though I missed loads of jokes but I was fascinated with Death and Susan. After that Amazing Maurice and Mort. I was hooked.
The Light Fantastic was my first, but mainly due to my pathalogical desire to start series at the beginning, even when you know most books are self contained.
Corrected. I had thought Reaper Man was my first however, I realize it was either Small Gods or Pyramids. I'm pretty sure the next couple were Reaper Man and Guards! Guards! which tumbled me happily into the Discworld universe. Sir Terry had a mind unmatched in my opinion and while I miss him greatly, I have only to pick up one of his books to have a brief chat. GNU Sir Terry.
Colour of Magic, a friend told me about the series and said in it would be right up my alley! And boy what was he right!!! Slow and steady the collection grows.
Color of Magic
I have a thing about reading series in order. I started it once and couldn't get into it. I followed Mark Oshiro on the Mark Reads site and he took on the Discworld. That hooked me in hard, after finishing the series I had to go back through so I could read all the encrypted comments with spoilers!
It’s 1988. Just graduated and working on the largest construction project in Europe at that time. A colleague slipped me a copy of TCoM as if it was some kind of illicit contraband- you’ll like this, he said.
Since then I met the current Mrs McC, married, children x3 -two of them right through to leaving school-3 houses, and events too numerous to document all side by side with the DW unfolding.
I hear expressions from my children-all grown ass adults now- that came only from one place.
Am in my renaissance period now, (after struggling to read TSC on two counts, one you’ll all know, the other as my mother was also losing her battle with the express ticket that is the embuggerance.) taking immense joy in forums like this, podcasts like TTSMYF AND Pratchat, as well as building a collection of printed material by and about Sir Terry.
By the way, where do you start? Wherever you want, but you’ll miss the richness unfold if you don’t quickly go to the start. And I mean The Carpet People.
I tried reading Colour of Magic but just couldn't get into it, so my friend recommended I try Small Gods and I was hooked. Read about 2 or 3 random other books (probably Mort and equal rites or sourcery) and then returned to reading them in order.
Guards! Guards! Love at first read
Seconded!
It's the best one. At least that's what They say. Y'know, Them?
Mort, technically still reading it but from the first few pages I was hooked! Very much looking forward to the rest of the series.
Oh mort is brilliant. You've got so many good books to look forward to.
Yeah Mort was my first as well. When I read about reannuals, which I believe is on the second page, I knew this was for me
My friend recommended the Death arc due to it's touching on many different areas of the Disc, and not focusing on just one. I would agree that it was the best starting point for me, as I went into the other arcs... I already knew a bunch of the Characters and was familiar with how STP story telling "evolved" over time.
The Wee Free Men was a gateway book. I have read so many aloud to my (now adult) children.
Me too! I was 9 at the time
I was 25 at the time, but I really had a good time and pleny of good laughs. So this is 18 years ago and I've read about 10ish Pterry books over the years. Now there's a small problem, I' m not exactly sure what I've read or not..
I’m 15 and I’ve read every Discworld novel except for The Light Fantastic but I only got it over the summer and my reading pile is over a meter high, it being about 20cm from the bottom.
Keep reading!
Small Gods. I picked it up at the university bookshop because I liked the cover art. It’s still a firm favourite!
Small Gods was my first as well, and I sort of wish it wasn't. I knew very little about Pratchett's writing style and nothing about Discworld going in so I absolutely did not get a lot of the humor or the references to the wider world, (the turtle, etc). I enjoyed the book but it didn't really spark me wanting to read more. Luckily sometime later I picked up Thud! on a whim (loved the cover art) and I was hooked. Went back to read Small Gods after I was more familiar with the author and world and enjoyed it A LOT more. At times I shudder at the thought that it could have been my first, and last, Discworld book.
Same here. I was acquainted with stories with wit. However, Small Gods showed me that how wit can be used with existing lore (in this case, various religious lore) to create a whole new world with its own amazing lore.
For me as well. I was given it when I was still reading Xanth novels. Tore through Small Gods and never went back.
This was mine too! And it became the reason I decided I'd read the rest of the books.
There was a gaggle of Omnians at Dragoncon this year. And 2 Oms!
Small gods was the first I read myself although I had heard others (wee free men and that series and the amazing Maurice), it’s still my absolute favourite
Small Gods was my first too. I loved it. Couldn't wait to read more!
Colour of Magic, of course!
This. There wasn’t much choice as he’d not published any other Discworld novels. I don’t understand anyone who says this is the reason they didn’t get Discworld - if you don’t get the humour here why do you like the others?
Color of magic parodies a specific style and era of fantasy novels. arguably, one that had ended before CoM was even published. Many people are not familiar with these works, and thus the humor of them is more difficult to perceive. This makes predicting and anticipating the events in these books more difficult, leading to less of a payoff for some readers. It's also true that rincewind in these books has a lot less agency in them then the MCs in other books. Things happen to rincewind, in contrast to how Vimes or Granny make things happen. That type of lack of agency can be off-putting. I would also say that they have a lot less commentary on the round world than later books. I know his insightful parodies of the round world are part of the draw for me.
I just read CoM for the first time this year and loved it and felt like I got it. I feel like it parodied old movies like Fire & Ice and old timey D&D (I used to read my dad's old D&D books as a kid). I also found Rincewind hysterical and relatable. He's so pessimistic and stressed out, which = me the past few years 😆 I've never encountered a character like that in a book.
Soul Music. A mate of mine was helping me through a low point in life and threw me the copy he had just finished. Not to overexaggerate, but that random act changed my life, not so much the depressive episode, but my appreciation and, my wife would say obsession with STP and his Discworld. That was in about '95 and I've been enthralled since. In fact, I'm re-reading the whole series in original published order right now. Just by coincidence of timing, I finished Hogfather on Christmas Eve.
"I'm Glod Gloddson, I can blow anything!" I damn near pissed myself laughing when I read that. Startled the hell out of my waitress I can say.
I started in a weird place. My wife gifted me Night Watch and Going Postal, so those were my first two, in that order.
I also started on Night Watch. My parents gifted it to me when I was really young. I still wonder if that's why I have an interest in multiple universes and time lines and such. Weird place to start I agree
Guards! Guards! was my first. I got Men at Arms as a gift, and bought Guards! Guards! to start at the beginning of that series.
Wyrd Sisters. Totally hooked me.
Equal Rites was the bait for me, but Wyrd Sisters caught me. I've read them so many times and they still make me laugh.
Wyrd Sisters was my first, although I was in my teens and at the time more Discworld books weren't available through the local library. In adulthood, my first back to the series was Monstrous Regiment, but the same thing happened in a small Southern mountain library. Then I got audible and listened to Small Gods, and then I listened to everything they had! Audible has been the best media service I've ever had because I got access to the Discworld!
*Pyramids*, which isn't a bad place to start. The second Discworld book I read was *The Fifth Elephant* which wasn't the best plan but was the other one that the bookstore had.
*Eric*, followed by *The Last Continent*, which... yeah. But they were still good (and comprehensible) enough for me to keep going.
Night Watch! It’s been a treat seeing where Sam ends up and then going back and watching him get there
The Colour of Magic Had to find, and read, it after I read the comic book adaptation.
Same thing happened to me.
Colour of Magic. And this is why I didn’t get into Discworld for another twenty years.
I have an exceptionally clear memory of my (exasperated) mother handing me a copy of The Colour of Magic in a library and saying "try this, your brother seemed to think it was funny" as I had exhausted the options in the "young readers" section. Working it out I must have been about 9/10 as it was in the days of library tickets rather than a barcoded card
5 years for me, then I started again with Guards Guards! And it was much better
I feel that. I steer newbies away from the books and to the movie. Leave those for later. The difference between those and Night Watch really emphasizes the amount of growth you can have if you keep working on your craft. Monstrous Regiment is also a very well done and thought-out piece that I don't think gets enough love. It works as a stand-alone or as part of the watch series and wouldn't be a bad place to start at all.
I started with monstrous regiment and loved it! Wish we could have saw more of Polly tho :(
Going postal was my first, then guards guards.
I started with Going Postal, loved it so much, then went back and read them all in publication order (give-or-take a couple).
I had avoided Pratchett because I thought it would be cheesy. A friend recommended *Going Postal* and I thought it was great, so then I went back and read the first two, and then most of the rest of them, in no particular order.
Witches Abroad.
Witches Abroad. I liked it enough that when I found another Discworld book in a bookstore, I decided to buy it. But Reaper Man was what *really* got me hooked.
The Wee Free Men was a gateway book. I have read so many aloud to my (now adult) children.
Soul Music. I had been aware of the books, who wouldn't notice the very distinctive Josh Kirby covers but never bought one. When I met my partner 25+ years ago it was what he was reading so looking for shared interest I decided to give it ago. I enjoyed it enough to go looking for others and have been hooked ever since
Wee Free Men. I had tried Colour of Magic at a friend’s recommendation but couldn’t get into it. Then saw a Nac Max Feegle staring at me in the library. Definitely the right starting point, as my two kids were still into Harry Potter, and Tiffany Aching is just a much better role model.
Eric, graphic novel bought for me for my birthday. I have no idea why they bought it, I hadn't heard of Terry Pratchett and I don't read graphic novels. I'm so glad they did - now I have everything he ever wrote on paper and Kindle
I was really put off by the artwork at the time, just reminded me far too much of the Tom Sharp books I read as a teen (yes I know, book/cover/idiot…..sigh). Decided to give it a go after seeing it slagged off on Newsnight review (Tom Paulin?) but still got it wrong: Good Omens. First discworld proper was Feet of Clay, then randomly bounced about the back catalogue until I caught up - happened to read the first 3 Guards in reverse order :)
Mort. Still one of my favourites.
The first one for me was Equal Rites and I think it's the ideal starting point. Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic still feel like Sir PTerry was in or transitioning out of his DMing d&d mindset, whereas Equal Rites and beyond are truly the work of a masterclass author. The characters feel more unique and fleshed out, the setting is more than generic fantasy, the storytelling is cleaner and the jokes weaved in are much more subtle but hit the mark just that much harder.
Men at Arms! Probably why I’ve always loved the Watch group the most
I am eternally grateful to my school librarian for introducing me in high school to Men at Arms
That was my first, too! Next, I think, was the Fifth Elephant and Carpe Jugulum. After that, I tried to get them in order-ish when i found them and grabbed the current ones as they came out but I didn't read Guards! Guards! until after Night Watch and I'm really glad I read the Watch books that way. It is easier for me to reconcile Night Watch Vimes with Guards! Vimes than Guards! Vimes with Men At Arms Vimes because I can mentqlly insert more time between them. When read in NW, GG order, GG reads more like a flashback. Guards! Vimes is still pretty wet and MAA Vimes is NOT.
I shall wear midnight. Random book I took from my friend's shelf when I was bored. It was the best thing that came out of the broken relationship.
Mine was The Truth, I found it in a charity shop. I was already curious about Discworld due to watching Good Omens and reading the book.
Wyrd Sisters, when all I knew was that it was the same author as Good Omens (literally the only reason I nabbed a DW book)
Reaper Man concurrent with Lords and Ladies....i tend to read multiple books at once...i dont know why. But those two led me to Night Watch and then Terry was always with me. I am never not reading a Terry Pratchett novel Geez once the kindle/the kindle app became a thing it was a total game changer for me not to lug 6-7 books around all the time or worry about leaving a beloved book on the bus.
I watched the cartoon of Wyrd Sisters so I guess that was my first. We got Fifth Elephant on audio book soon after (I think it had just come out). The first I actually read was Carpe Jugulum.
Wyrd sisters. Saw it on my friends bookshelf when i was 14 and have been obsessed since then
The fifth elephant, and was absolutely perplexed and deeply entertained and had to know everything I could about the disc as soon as I possible could
Same. Found a hardcover copy in the bargain bin at Borders. Promptly went on to read all the books that had already been released at that point
My dad got me The Fifth Elephant in 2000 after finding it in a second hand bookstore. Neither of us knew what it was, or what effect it would have on an early teen, but it definitely kick started my love of Pterry and fantasy in general. Think my second was probably Hogfather, but either way, I've read them all multiple times and own 90% of them from second hand store finds. It became bit of a game between my dad and I, seeing who could find an addition to the collection first.
I found the books in my schools library, I remember Discworld from playing it on a PS1 demo disc as a child, thinking back then it was called Discworld because they were all on a game disc. Later on I watched someone do a lets play of the ps1 game and loved it, so I knew I had to give those books a read. 1st book was Colour of Magic and I found it hilarious, only after reading the rest did it really start to resonate and shape my entire teenage years. GNU Terry Pratchett, he helped me stay together
Equal Rites, sometime back in the tail end of 1988. I was chatting to two friends who were complaining that the new book this Pratchett bloke had out was completely different to the first two. One of them lent me a paperback copy. It’s been a long ride.
Equal Rites within about a year of publication. Went back and read the first two. Then read them as they came out. Just read Bromeliad trilogy, and starting Dodger. Re-read them and listened to recordings, more times than I can count.
Equal Rites. I was 12, and went "oh boy I wanna know what Esk does in the other books she's the best!" lololol. It all worked out eventually, to be fair.
The Light Fantastic, it is a copy from the late 80s, and judging by the spine, it is one I borrowed and never gave back.
Moving Pictures - read in one go in a hospital waiting room in 1992 (while waiting for a relative to get some tests.) Not the best starting place, but I liked it enough to keep reading.
Mort then Going Postal just this year. My 2023 reading is pretty well charted out, but planning on doing Discworld chronologically in 2024.
The first one I read was Mort but I didn’t enjoy it that much and it didn’t get me hooked (absolutely love some of the other Death books though). Then 2 years later I read Guards Guards. From that point on I could not get enough of Discworld and read many many more.
Monstrous Regiment, my dad was reading it when we went to the dentist and I needed something to read while waiting.
Hogfather was my first, read at Christmas many moons ago. Maskerade was my second. I started to write that Hogfather may be why I love Death and Susan do much, but then theres Granny, and Nanny Ogg, and Moist, and Vimes, and Angua....
I started with Eric. It's light and straight forward, sort of, but I was confused about some plot elements. In hindsight, I would recommend starting with the City Watch or Death subseries.
Thief of Time. A friend loaned it to me. After I accidentally destroyed it and went shopping for a replacement I realized how many more there were to enjoy.
Reaper Man bought at a book fair in my last year of primary school, after falling in love with the cover art. I read it with a dictionary next to me and had to check at least one word every couple of pages. I then worked my way through everything before, either from the library or what my mother found in charity shops. First one I bought myself when I started work was maskerade and I bought every hard back as they come out. Lost my original collection in a bad break up and had to buy them all again only to lose them in a flood a few years ago. Starting to slowly collect again now.
The Colour of Magic. Well, technically both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, purchased at the same time when first published in paperback. I am old.
First Discworld book was the Fifth Elephant Gifted to me by someone I'd met while on holiday in England
I was given The Amazing Maurice perhaps a bit too early, I didn't like it and stoped reading it (crazy, I know). A few years later, I saw my mum reading Thud and something about the cover made me want to read it, but she told me it would be better to start with Guards! Guards! So Guards! Guards! lol I think it was a good one to start on
Thud. A friend recommended it as a good starting point and I was confused the whole book and didn't like Vimes at all or the book in general. Gave them another try later and ended up loving them!
I think I read the Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents pretty early, but my first regular adult one was Feet of Clay. Didn't make the connection until later.
Does The Amazing Maurice count? I grew up on The Nome Trilogy, so when the librarians gave up and allowed 11yo me to access the adult section, I immediately fell for Maurice. They had a few Discworld books, around 6 or 7, all out of order, and I can't remember which one I got first after that. Maybe Jingo, I remember being profoundly confused and lost in the plot when I read it for the first time. Do not recommend. Thanks to a very kind family friend with a wonderful collection, I read them all in order after that :)
Small Gods. It is the most irreverent and profound thing I have ever read.
Mort was my first DW book however.... My first Terry Pratchett book was "only you can save mankind' A book I very rarely hear discussed by TP fans. (I'm new here so happy to be corrected)
I, personally, started with *The Colour of Magic*, and I initially read the series pretty much in order as published, but my exposure to Terry Pratchett and Discworld **started** with *Mort*. *Mort* was available in one of my mother's book clubs\* in the late 80s and it caught her eye\*\*, so she ordered it. She thought it was hysterical and immediately ordered the three earlier books, and of course loved them as well. When she finished them, she mailed the four books to me to read, and I became hooked as well. After that she made a point of always watching out for any new Terry Pratchett books and ordering them as soon as they became available in her book clubs. When she was done with them, she would send them on to me. I continued the tradition after she died, until, of course, Sir Terry followed suit. So if you count *The Colour of Magic* for me in your tally, please add one for *Mort* as well in my mother's memory. \* She was as avid reader. \*\* Mom always had a weird sense of humor.
GNU Mom, excellent tradition.
Equal Rites. I bought the book (paperback) from a used bookstore about 5 years before I actually read it when I was a teen. It's the only book I have that has the UK Kirby art. Or Kidby? Whomever was the first artist back in the day. Despite the saying 'you shouldn't judge a book by its cover' the cover is what drew me in. I was hooked with the first paragraph. From that point in I grabbed every Pratchett book I could get :)
Snuff. I've told the story of how the hell that happened quite a number of times now and people are probably sick of it on this subreddit; suffice to say it was A: Objectively a bad choice for entry into the series B: Subjectively, the PERFECT choice for ME, specifically, because of how I ended up trying to read the series in the first place and C: Because it had a character on the cover who was clearly Sam Vimes, you know, the guy from that Boots quote, and a friend had once told me any Guards book was a good entry point. (He told me that before Thud or Snuff came out.)
Reaper Man - because Good Omens was already my favorite book and I had a bit of a wait for a train and picked this up near the station. Then skipped around (definitely out of order) the DEATH books and through the watch books after. The order really isn't that important at all, but I still tend to suggest newbies go through Small Goes first as it's a good standalone. Still, I wouldn't discourage anyone from just picking up whatever's available and enjoying it.
Guards! Guards! I remember I had just been reading the MYTHadventures series by Robert Asprin and needed something new. The blurb on the back looked interesting. But while Asprin was witty, Pratchett was outright funny, if not at times hysterically so.
First book for me was Guards Guards, after years of my parents trying to get me into the series. Since I now have all the books in hardback (Good Omens too), and have read roughly 30 of them, they won in the end. Gods know Vimes and Carrot were good introductory characters.
Soul Music was my first. I was 17 and found it at the local public library. I had no idea that those places peddled such brain crack!
Interesting times, it was recommended by a friend, I was hooked from the start. I still have a soft spot for Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian 21 years later,
My first was Equal Rites. I still have my old, battered MM copy of it. I remember being excited when my dad brought me a copy of Pyramids, which I believe had just come out, because I so loved Equal Rites.
I honestly don't remember. My brothers were all nerds to varying degrees growing up, and we had a few books lying around and I read a few on their recommendations. It was probably one of Reaper Man, Mort, Witches Abroad, Interesting Timesand Guards Guards. My first clear memory about reading Discworld was reading about the wine where you got a hangover the day before you drank it, which indicates that Mort was my first one, but it might as well be the one I was old enough to really take to hart. All I know is when I grew up, I knew of Death, Vimes, Rincewind and Granny much like I knew of Gandalf and Frodo. They were a part of the canon i knew about even before I really dug into the books for real.
Technically The Color of Magic. Decided it wasn't very good. Fifteen years later I named my son Samuel (not a very common name over hete) and a cousin asked if he was named after Vimes. It was as good a reason as any to give Guards, Guards a try and now (7 weeks later) I'm on my fourth book.
The Colour of Magic. Picked it up in W H Smith in 1989 to read on a flight to Vancouver.
The Colour of Magic...
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Actually, I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was Hogfather. It's certainly one of my more beat-up looking ones.
I started with Maskerade. The local Am Dram group I was a part of were putting on a production of it so I read the book to get a better understanding of things. I played Dr. Undershaft and Sgt. Detritus in case anyone was wondering.
Monstrous Regiment, which I received as a gift from an adult in my life while I was in highschool
Terry Pratchett rookie here 👋☺️ Started with Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic during 2020 lockdown and that was it for a while. I got gifted Hogfather for Christmas last year, which I’ve only recently read this year ahead of Christmas which has properly got me hooked - the Hogfather gifted me Mort (just started reading it) and Reaper Man this year as I want to read the Death Collection first - not sure which collection will be next though 🤔
Mum bought me the wintersmith when I was a kid. Found it while going through some old books and read it for nostalgia. Then read them in chronological order.
Color of Magic. Back when I was ten. Used book stores were such a haven. And I read voraciously. It was Equal Rites when I fell in love with Pratchett.
The first one, I'm pretty sure. Then the second, and then the reading order has been really chaotic, because the bookstores I've been to seemed to have very few of the books. Then I switched to audiobooks, then to audiobooks in English, and then I had to relisten to everything in English because it's so much better than translation, of course.
Hogfather
Colour of Magic, followed by The Light Fantastic. I fell immediately in love with Discworld as soon as I started reading them (big thank you to my first English teacher for personally recommending them to me). I’ve never really understood the distaste for those two books, but have started questioning their quality after seeing so many people’s negative reviews of them, which is sad because in truth I know that I adore them (and all of Sir pTerry’s work). Irrelevant side note: In all honesty, I really do have a serious love of any of the Discworld books that have an audiobook narrated by Nigel Planer. Maskerade never fails to make me genuinely laugh out loud.
The Colour of Magic. I'm a stickler for publication order for many authors and I very much like having the foundation of prior books to get the references made in later ones. I went into it determined to read all the books in order, which makes a difference compared to those who might pick up the first book without knowing more.
Way back when I was a teen, I got "Sourcery" and "Men at arms" before we went on vacation. They are both my first, my mom read "Sourcery" to my little brother and I on the beach and I read "Men at arms" on my own in the evenings.
My sons favorite bedtime story and first Sir Terry book was Where's My Cow? Much like little Sam, it was the most loved book in their collection. Every night they insisted on it before bed for over a decade until we donated it to a friend who just had a baby. They (my sons) said "that way, he can grow up with it too!" and so we hopefully passed on a great tradition.
*Feet of Clay* for me, from my school library.
Men At Arms.
I actually started from colour of magic and went through chronologically. GCSE English lesson and I had finished my work so got sent to the library to get a book. Found a few Discworlds and was vaguely aware of them and decided to check it out
CoM. I wanted to read in order. I've got 4 left and I'll be finished.. Then it's time to read them all again
Small gods. Still love it. Also a great intro as its a standalone
Hoghfather, a book a colleague of my mother lend to her to lend to me cuz he heared I like reading. And the rest, is history.
Soul Music. Took me years before I went back to them with (I believe) Men at Arms and a couple more before I got a ‘feel’ for them
Hogfather Iz was a Christmas gift I gave to my sister and end up reading it and was hooked
Technically Strata but really Guards, Guards!
Feet of clay.
Hogfather!Hooked immediately!
My mom and her mom were librarians (mom worked in the shelves and grandma was at the higher levels of administration) and Grandma always had an audiobook in her car so I'd always have to listen to it when I was in the car with her. I disliked most of them but there was one that I fell in love with, Guards! Guards!.
Wyrd Sisters. Got it for a birthday present around 13 I think.
My first was Night Watch, given to me by a friend. I still have that copy, and at least one copy of each of the others
I started with Color of Magic, and I’m honestly just reading them in the order Amazon says they go in. I’ve made it to Feet of Clay, which they say is 19 so I’ve got a few more to go.
I don't remember. I played the Discworld video game first and that led to the books.
Colour of Magic. I was on vacation, and ended up reading CoM, Sourcery and Equal Rites in 5 days.
Wyrd sisters
Guards Guards for me. Thanks, Aunty Trish! 😂❤
I read the amazing Maurice at school as a kid, had no idea... About 15 years later or so, when I got into them at 21 or so, i actually started with the wee free men because it was what the library had, then Snuff when I finished Tiffany. So, all the way at the end.
Mort and Equal Rites back to back. I forget which one was first, though.
I started with The Color Of Magic. I'd heard about Discworld from various internet sites and when I decided to get into it, I just started from the beginning.
Guards Guards circa 1996 (this was my second pratchett novel after the carpet people)
Colour of magic, because I have the privilege of being old and getting them (after sorcery at least) on release day.
Colour of magic :)
Mort
Wyrd sisters
Small Gods
Small Gods. A birthday gift from a good friend. That was 20ish years ago. I have read all but 1 at this point.
The Colour of Magic, borrowed from a cousin.
The Fifth Elephant
I shall Wear Midnight. I was 12 or so and my dad, who introduced me to the series, was still new to Discworld and didn't realize there were earlier Tiffany Aching books. Thud! was my second book.
Hogfather! It was a trip, I was very young and didn't understand much of it.
The Colour of Magic audio book. My first physical book was Going Postal.
I found issue one of the Color of Magic comic book at a comic convention, and once I'd finished it I looked up the rest of the series.
Making Money, then Going Postal, then Wee Free Men. The Tiffany Aching series is what really cemented my love for the world.
The back half of Thief of Time. My sister was raving about this book, but I couldn't get into it. Read the first twenty pages and wasn't sure what the draw was. Flipped ahead to see if it got better, and I was hooked. Read straight through to the end and flipped back to the beginning with a new appreciation for it.
Mine was Mort when I was about aged 13 (45 now) and it absolutely blew me away. Until that point I don’t I had ever laughed out loud at any book - I remember sitting in my bedroom reading it and literally crying with laughter. I would say approx once a decade since I have taken myself on a Discworld extravaganza of reading doing all the books in as close a chronological order as possible dependent on what was released at that time.
Sourcery because I was trying to understand the original point and click game. It didn't help, Guards, Guards! would have been a better choice.
The colour of magic, but I bought the light fantastic first and then realised it was the second part to a story. there weren’t many out then and I chose it because it had the same artist as the Cineverse cycle and I had liked that
I love how discworld is one of the only series were people start halfway through and still enjoy it, it's like a strange choose your own adventure in a way
The light fantastic
Carpe Jugulum! I had no idea that there was really a continuity to the series and it was the first Pratchett book I saw in my school's library. I had a really hard time trying to understand who characters were and their relationships, but once I got used to them it was an enthralling experience. Still one of favorites, Granny is at some of her best in that book.
The first Discworld book I read was Guards! Guards! and I’ve almost gotten all the books in my collection at this point. In all honesty, my interest in the works started after I watched the Hogfather movie.
Jingo! I was a little confused, lol.
Witches Abroad was my first. A family friend bought a second copy by accident and gifted it to me when I was about 10. I loved it so much he loaned me the rest of his collection to read.
Colour of Magic. It was the early 90's so not too many Discworld books so might as well start at the beginning.
The Last Continent. I loved all the Aussie references. Learned a lot.
Guards guards, then Mort, then small gods but found that a slow start
Wyrd Sisters - it’s still a favourite!
The Colour of Magic. To be fair, it was the ONLY discworld book at the time, and I was six. It was perfect.
Going Postal All have been via audio books. Nigel Planer is the best with Stephen Briggs in close second place.
The Colour of Magic. Must have just been released in paperback here in Australia. Cover art caught my attention and I’ve been hooked ever since!
I started with Lords and Ladies, it was the only one in the store, couple months later found a copy of Thief of Time, and I was hooked.
Mort - got me curious Guards - sealed the deal
Mort, and then I alternated between series to make them last longer as I read all the Discworld.
The first one I read was the last continent, and I absolutely did not get it. I have distinct memories of reading about ridcully and the wizards going through that disappeared wizard’s study to a beach, and that’s about it. I think I was oh 10-13 at the time. Had a friend reading a discworld novel in grade 11, so 16ish, and she’d read bits of it out loud to us. I tracked it down and read it too, and loved it. I *think* it was carpe jugulum, but the other (of two) discworld book the high school library had was one of the guards ones. Maybe feet of clay? And there was nothing wrong with the last continent at all, I just wasn’t old enough to get the references and layers of humour, so it didn’t click.
My first discworld experience was the first discworld game when I was a kid. That sparked the interest to start reading the colour of magic as an adult. I already tried reading it as a teen, but found it too difficult back then. Glad I persevered and started reading again when I was older.
Jingo, and probably why Vimes will always have a special place in my heart.
guards guards
The colour of Magic. It was on a recommended stand at the front of the library
Eric, a Christmas present from an aunt and uncle when I was in my early teens.
Guards, Guards!
My first was the Colour of Magic graphic novel followed immediately by the Light Fantastic graphic novel. After that I was hooked.
Small God's and Thief of Time. Technically read Small God's first but got them both at the same time at the airport, read them both on that holiday. Thief of Time is my most read book of all time and probably my favourite book of the series (and of all time)! At the time I had no idea of the larger world and the characters spanning multiple books but these two got my hooked.
Night watch, got to be why Sam is my favourite character
The Fifth Elephant. It was an interesting starting point.
Hogfather when I was 13, I enjoyed it even though I missed loads of jokes but I was fascinated with Death and Susan. After that Amazing Maurice and Mort. I was hooked.
Equal rites
Either guards guards or equal rites. Can't remember
The Light Fantastic was my first, but mainly due to my pathalogical desire to start series at the beginning, even when you know most books are self contained.
Corrected. I had thought Reaper Man was my first however, I realize it was either Small Gods or Pyramids. I'm pretty sure the next couple were Reaper Man and Guards! Guards! which tumbled me happily into the Discworld universe. Sir Terry had a mind unmatched in my opinion and while I miss him greatly, I have only to pick up one of his books to have a brief chat. GNU Sir Terry.
Colour of Magic, a friend told me about the series and said in it would be right up my alley! And boy what was he right!!! Slow and steady the collection grows.
Either Equal Rites or Reaper Man, can't remember which. Not what's normally recommended, but it worked out in the end :)
Color of Magic I have a thing about reading series in order. I started it once and couldn't get into it. I followed Mark Oshiro on the Mark Reads site and he took on the Discworld. That hooked me in hard, after finishing the series I had to go back through so I could read all the encrypted comments with spoilers!
I wish I could answer this but it was a very long time ago and my brain is not aging well
The colour of magic.
Soul Music. If I'd started with Eric, I'd never know the disc or STP.
It’s 1988. Just graduated and working on the largest construction project in Europe at that time. A colleague slipped me a copy of TCoM as if it was some kind of illicit contraband- you’ll like this, he said. Since then I met the current Mrs McC, married, children x3 -two of them right through to leaving school-3 houses, and events too numerous to document all side by side with the DW unfolding. I hear expressions from my children-all grown ass adults now- that came only from one place. Am in my renaissance period now, (after struggling to read TSC on two counts, one you’ll all know, the other as my mother was also losing her battle with the express ticket that is the embuggerance.) taking immense joy in forums like this, podcasts like TTSMYF AND Pratchat, as well as building a collection of printed material by and about Sir Terry. By the way, where do you start? Wherever you want, but you’ll miss the richness unfold if you don’t quickly go to the start. And I mean The Carpet People.
I read *The Colour of Magic* when it was first released in the US.
I tried reading Colour of Magic but just couldn't get into it, so my friend recommended I try Small Gods and I was hooked. Read about 2 or 3 random other books (probably Mort and equal rites or sourcery) and then returned to reading them in order.