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I started with Guards! Guards! and it's still one of my favourite books in the series only topped by the witches books. Especially Witches abroad... so hilarious and brilliant.

Just finished The Crow Folk (with my eyes) and have already purchased the next two in the series! What a fantastic world you've built. It's gritty and real and absurd and lovely.

His first book would be a good place. Brilliant author, sadly missed.

I owe this man so much. No author has shaped my views on humanity as much as Terry Pratchett.

I came late to Discworld too! My best takeaway from his stories is the Morality inside the humour. If only the Human Race had has much as Discworld we could solve a lot of problems. I have too many favourites but I do go back to Interesting Times and the Last Continent a lot. Reaper Man is brilliant. Oh! What the heck, they’re all great Plus, you’re quite right. No one compares to Terry Pratchett RIP

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I actually read The Light Fantastic first and then The Color of Magic. I absolutely devoured his books. I haven't been lucky enough to read all of the books, but I loved every one I did read.

Very excited to say that I just ordered your first book! The setting sounds like a delight, can't wait.

Amazing interview. As an amateur artist and writer, it's so cool seeing this kind of content. I love book cover illustrations! I want to see more of it. Shout-outs from Brazil 🫰💖

Um, Death doesn't show up in every book, actually. In Snuff, there is no Death. But the video is great!

I still say read them in the release order otherwise you will be dissappointed. his writing style and concepts evolve with time.

For any younger girls (daughters or nieces you want to introduce to him) I think I might start with the Tiffany Aching series (though I'd want to keep at least the last one way from them until after all the other books) to help hook them on Disk World before introducing the rest (the Witches books may be the first with female leads and Equal Rites the first with a young female character but the Tiffany ones are perhaps the better written (or more whimsical?) and more 'accessible' for younger children) .. for anyone else I'd just start at the start with The Colour Of Magic.

wait to you see the fith one

I started with Moving Pictures. Loved it. Probably my favorite of what I've read, along with Night Watch, and maybe The Color of Magic.

I started with Maskerade because I loved the idea of a fantasy story that parodies the Phantom of the Opera.

Sorry I missed the live stream...🙂

Can you show us the entirety of your DW/Pratchett collection?

I love this book!! Just got it on Audible after I watched your video on Discworld and I’m so so glad I did.

I’ve never ever read terry pratchett but I have to say I came to this video for some clarity as to what to start with but you left me completely bewildered and so much more confused 😐 Like are all his books to be read in publication order? And what is disc world? Are all his books part of this so called discord? I’m so perplexed 🤔

I've just started Discworld. I'm in book 10 of Wheel of Time and wanted some lighter reading to help me through the slog, so I ordered "Guards! Guards!" which I'm about a quarter of the way through as well as Mort and the combo of "Colour Of Magic/ Light Fantastic." I started fantasy in the 80's with the absurdist world of Xanth by Piers Anthony and other than a few of Robert Aspirin's Myth books hadn't been back. So far I'm really enjoying his world. I like how Carrot's optimism is rehabilitating Vimes. Hope that's the direction it continues.

Guards! Guards! is a great place to start. Equal Rites is also great. The last book his Alzheimer's didn't noticeably damage was Unseen Academicals. I didn't read the last couple of books because their extreme drop in quality just depressed me. I will certainly look into your work.

Several of these are going on my tbr📚Thank you!👍👍👍

What if you just don’t want to read any of his books?

I love The Carpet People.

A great video. I'll see if your book has made it to my library (its not scary is it?) Thank you for the recommendations re Pratchett. I've read about 10 over the years, but got my hands on the first 5 at a charity shop. I'll be reading Sourcery after I've finished Time Regained. They are amazing books. He is such a funny writer and I loved the TiffAche book series. I hope I can get to Wyrd Sisters this year too. Thanks for posting.

I knew Gaiman novellas first so I read Good Omens, then I read Sourcery because that was the only Discworld book in the local library. After than I mostly read in publication order.

Just got my first TP book: Going Postal. What do you guys think abiut this one?

Great vid. I sub'd.

The guards were never a favourite of mine....until Thud. I fell in love with Vimes and how he beats the shadow without even knowing "Who watches the watcher?" "I do!!", I then went back and read the other guards books and enjoyed them a lot more (maybe I was too young first time round) I love the death books, closely followed by the witches (if you don't love granny, then you're beyond help lol). It took me 5 months to get around to read Shepard's Crown when it was given as a gift for Christmas. This is a lovely video, thank for reminding me about so many amazing books!

A small point.. Death the character is missing in 2 books, The Wee Free Men and Snuff, he is in the rest of the books but not those 2....

You have pressings that I couldn't get here on the states. I reread these books on a continual basis ❤

When i was at college (im 52 now) people kept mentioning Good Omens. I loved The Omen series and thought, oh a p#ss-take book. Then i read it . . .and WOW. Then Mort, Equal Rites, Guards Guards. ... The Shepherds Crown (understandably) doesn't have Sir pTerry's usual polish. i still miss not asking for / receiving the latest pTerry Pratchett' for birthdays or Christmas. Miss you Sir 😢😢

lovely interview, as an aspiring illustrator i just happened to be looking around for interviews and stumbled upon this video. its great to see the insight behind the cover of your book and your questions were great. thanks for sharing!

I just watched ur terry pratchett guide, thank u BTW, then seen ur promo I READ YOUR BOOK! ITS AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL! X thank u

Well... i did originally read the diskworld in publication order, then i re-read the books in series (the watch, death, the witches, the wizzards and rincewind, cohen and the silver horde, and Moist von Lipwig, including the "stand alone" ), and.... well, i think that readin in "series order" lets you focus on a certain part of the universe... a center plot line to follow, but i would say that reading in publishing order has its advantages, first, you can notice the evolution of the narrative, secondly, it becomes easier to get certain nods or aquire greater fondness for certain characters, one of my favorites is Reg Shoe in the watch storyline, who you can first meet in Feet of clay, and get his "origin story" in Night Watch... but if you had readed trough the Death series, youll find mr. Shoe earlier, in "Reaper Man" as the leader of an affirmative action group for the undead.... similarily, if you are reading the rincewind books or the silver horde ones and you reach "the last hero", you'll be introduced to one officer Carrot Ironfoundersonn that would appear odd if you had not read some of the city watch books before... So in my opinion, reading the books in cronological order at least once is a must (reading any terry pratchett book only once is out of question). Finally, you cannot miss "small gods" a standalone book that is a serious"must read" one

Just like Terry Pratchett? Do you include luggage in your story ;-)

For me, it's always Small Gods that I recommend, as it introduces Lu-Tze

I bought "guards guards" but after ten or fifteen pages if you asked me what I was reading about all I could tell you would be "I don't remember or know. So far I can't assign any meaning to these words." I'm assuming it gets much better because of how highly it's regarded.

Looks so good!

That looks brilliant!

Slick cameo, Mr. Stay!

Reaper Man was my first discworld book.

I started with Colour of Magic and didn't enjoy it much, so stopped. A friend then recommended Small Gods which I read and was hooked. I think the thing about pratchett is that there's such variety that it's hard to suggest a start point that'll appeal to everyone. I didn't like Wyrd sisters much because it just felt like a pastiche of Shakespeare (who I loathe reading) but I've enjoyed it more on subsequent readings. Still not in my top ten, but it's grown on me So in general, if I'm going to suggest starting the series, I'd find out what they like and suggest something based on that to see if they appreciate the humour and world view

My absolute favourite is monstrous regiment 👍

Never read any book of Terry Pratchett, but will start with Guards Guards. thx for your video.

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Really good overview of the discworld series, love the passion you show for Terry's books. Also downloaded a sample of your book on kindle and really enjoyed what I read, will be purchasing in the very near future!

Truckers or the Carpet People.

Hearing that Colour of Magic is not Discworld at it's best prompted me. I mean, I remember grappling with this same question, which book to recommend to my friends to start with, when nobody I knew seemed to heard of him (I was lucky to start ~92). But honestly, why worry? :) By all means, do start (for example) with Colour of Magic and explore Discworld _with_ Terry Pratchett!