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(DIR) Post #AzPcPoANFpiNqGO7I8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-20T20:59:06Z
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I'm reading the Disc World series for the first time in my life and kind of kicking myself for not reading it when I was younger. It's a nice break from my usual diet of dour cyberpunk novels. Reading it in order you can see him kind of growing into a voice and that's really enjoyable. Something to be said for writing a story in order.
(DIR) Post #AzPcZUIFzoWv6Sgssa by msbellows@c.im
2025-10-20T21:00:48Z
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@futurebird Aren't they wonderful? When I discovered them during COVID, they helped to keep me (arguably) sane.
(DIR) Post #AzPcaVNPSF5KkgaO9o by adriano@lile.cl
2025-10-20T21:00:56Z
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@futurebird It's really sad that you can kinda tell when his illness started affecting him.
(DIR) Post #AzPcfSURc87tFPEqFE by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-10-20T21:01:54Z
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@futurebird You're going with publication order rather than the various sub-series orders?Since I find that some Pratchett fans have opinions about that.
(DIR) Post #AzPcgUb3GdRI4Qp1Qe by noodlemaz@med-mastodon.com
2025-10-20T21:01:56Z
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@futurebird I was just talking to our team lead at work about that on Fri. He's got all of them, I think I've only read two. Might get to it. There's a map of different story routes you can take, I had it somewhere...
(DIR) Post #AzPciVHtfXOEnDozQW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-20T21:02:29Z
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I think I didn't read it when I was younger because the opening of the first book is very awkward and kind of clunky, but carried by its absurdity... then it sort of takes off and loops you in. It's very much written as a story being told to you, one night after the next and the world keeps expanding and becoming more real as it goes.
(DIR) Post #AzPck1Ke0xROSxpVlA by mark@mastodon.fixermark.com
2025-10-20T21:02:42Z
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@futurebird Oh wow. Enjoy this journey. :)I got started with Going Postal and, honestly, I think Going Postal is forever my favorite (though Making Money is a close second).Meanwhile, the live-action Hogfather is an annual watch in my house.
(DIR) Post #AzPcmDBotnBtoykNt2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-20T21:03:10Z
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@adriano :(
(DIR) Post #AzPd23EbgAuJZzbTZA by adriano@lile.cl
2025-10-20T21:06:00Z
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@futurebird I was passed the first discworld books by a friend when I was in college, 25 years ago, and the Discworld grew on me book by book, year by year. I'm really, really thankful to have experienced it and to be able to go back in again if I want to. Welcome to this wonder.
(DIR) Post #AzPd9NJxOgwhu3b9w8 by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-10-20T21:07:18Z
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@futurebird It's also pretty obvious in the first two that this was not initially intended to be a series but a parody of other books at the time.I have recommended to some people that they skip those the first time and come back to them later
(DIR) Post #AzPeS9AYKx5bT7iMYy by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2025-10-20T21:21:55Z
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@futurebird have heard good things for a long time
(DIR) Post #AzPeTdUb55mtnvnfZw by GavinChait@wandering.shop
2025-10-20T21:22:10Z
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@futurebird Mort feels like where Pratchett starts to find his voice. Small Gods is where he discovered how powerful that voice could be. Monstrous Regiment... Well, that one is breathtaking.
(DIR) Post #AzPefRRjh6RNv25ikK by guigsy@mstdn.social
2025-10-20T21:24:17Z
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@futurebird Pratchett's universe definitely evolved as he got in his stride. The first couple of books are interesting. Then he gets into funnier story telling. But by the time you get to Moving Pictures, it's well into a satirical commentary on civilization and society... whilst also being hilarious and interesting. And he just got deeper and better as he went.
(DIR) Post #AzPezVW0HB18KVeh6m by CuriousMagpie@beige.party
2025-10-20T21:27:52Z
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@futurebird it's one of my favorite things as a reader - to witness a writer growing into their voice and their world(s).
(DIR) Post #AzPf5sT9qWRXG4MV0q by amro@todon.nl
2025-10-20T21:29:05Z
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@futurebird I'm so happy for you :blobcatheart:
(DIR) Post #AzPfJLvNdyA2NOzKQi by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-10-20T21:31:28Z
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@futurebird I tried the first book and didn't really like it (not sure how far I got before abandoning it).
(DIR) Post #AzPfjMxGR35H6LH6o4 by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-20T21:36:13Z
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@futurebird The Disworld books are a treasure. If you haven't yet, by the same author, look up the Nome Trilogy or Bromeliad – they are mindbogglingly good.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy#TerryPratchett
(DIR) Post #AzPfrkYQZqBybtecHw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-20T21:37:46Z
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@gbargoud I think someone told me this in my late teens and I didn't listen because I like to read an author in order from their first book to their last when possible.I might have gotten into him earlier if I'd only listened. Being older I'm more willing to just ... go with it. And still to hard headed to take your advice. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AzPgg3RAe2dtebFMVE by faerye@pie.gd
2025-10-20T21:46:45Z
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@futurebird I’ve been reading them too! I read a few when I was a teen but figured “enh, I guess I’m a Douglas Adams person”. I’m really enjoying them now, despite some winceworthy moments (especially in an orientalist vein). I have been using a complex reading order so I can deal with my library’s long hold times/gaps in availability on the excellent audiobooks. I love the witches ones (both the text and narration) and I’m putting off reading the last one of those so I won’t run out.
(DIR) Post #AzPha2y9ZWQuQ2NDJA by helena001@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T21:56:55Z
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@futurebird hi
(DIR) Post #AzPjUdSVBx8flB7GKG by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-10-20T22:18:22Z
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@futurebird Knowing there are better ones in the future and not letting the first ones discourage you is also a strategy and one with a better payoff but one that people tend to be less likely to go through with
(DIR) Post #AzPnpEFAXGOXSFxG3k by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
2025-10-20T23:06:52Z
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@futurebird I've know of Discworld for decades but never tried them until we saw the TV miniseries for The Color of Magic - that was fun and I've been plowing through the books, enjoying them all so far. I love how he's constantly poking fun at modern things - society, tech, government, etc.
(DIR) Post #AzPshwt9A9zTN90C1Y by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-10-21T00:01:36Z
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@futurebird My godfather introduced me to the series. He was reading one of them to his children when they visited and he recommended that we start with Mort. I really enjoyed my parents reading it to me and so then we went back to the start of the series. I’m glad we read them this way around, because I probably wouldn’t have continued if I’d started with the first two (and other people about my age did and didn’t see why he was popular and gave up). I think we had caught up and bought them as they came out by around Wyrd Sisters, and I started reading them myself around then.The last time I did a complete in-order reread was around 15 years ago. They definitely get bigger! The early ones I managed three a day, and that rate drops off quite a lot towards the end.The first books flit through a few styles but there’s quite an abrupt transition around Masquerade from stories where the humour is driving and the narrative is there to support the jokes, to serious stories told in an entertaining style. Masquerade has improved in rereading but it’s a weird place where he’s shifting to the other model and hasn’t quite done it yet. The ones after it are superb, and so I have found myself rereading the older ones less.That said, in between rereading the Hyperion Cantos (which I haven’t read for almost 20 years), I’ve been rereading the Witches ones (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, and now on Witches Abroad). I really like the later ones in this series (I decided to because I’d just reread Carpe Jugulem and realised I hadn’t read the earlier ones for ages).
(DIR) Post #AzQJVsP4i4V6kXP7gm by hosford42@techhub.social
2025-10-21T05:01:58Z
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@futurebird HELLO.
(DIR) Post #AzQLbnM4anEujowxpA by Tooden@aus.social
2025-10-21T05:25:26Z
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@futurebird I think you were meant to discover Discworld now.
(DIR) Post #AzQOTJOQPGh3MGhFVQ by jens@social.finkhaeuser.de
2025-10-21T05:57:16Z
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@futurebird I find I love his phases for different reasons. The first two are so crammed full of a kind of humour that I like, they're amongst my.favourite books.The latest are a little too serious for me (and you notice his illness), but they're better stories about humanity. I'm a little sad he left the witches behind. They're my favourites! He sort of picks them up again with the Tiffany Aching books, and I think they're great for what they are! But they are also essentially a kid's...
(DIR) Post #AzQVFNlI49sAX5hFxY by jaeclectic@mas.to
2025-10-21T07:13:27Z
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@futurebird For me, Pratchett is hit or miss: I adore some of his books and others... eh. There's a subset of Discworld books featuring a character named Tiffany Aching, starting with Wee Free Men, that I really love. Also love Monstrous Regiment. On the other hand, there are a batch that are basically "here's a parody of a modern institution" (post office, bank, whatever) that just don't do much for me -- although as other comments show, some folks love them. As with so many things, YMMV.
(DIR) Post #AzQXhb7aBm0Lz1hoOG by psa@masto.ai
2025-10-21T07:40:57Z
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@futurebird One of the advantages to reading Pratchett when a bit older is that his stories greatly reward knowledge. The most you know (about way too many topics, but especially history), the more jokes you'll get.There's so many jokes and references that I didn't understand (or even notice) on my first reading which were an absolute delight on my most recent read through.Definitely worth putting on your "read again in 10 years" list.
(DIR) Post #AzQhavIhlNHk5DMd3g by muddie@aus.social
2025-10-21T09:31:46Z
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@futurebird oh to be able to read them all again with a fresh start. My partner ended up getting into them because she was curious why I kept waking her up with my laughter. (I was trying to be quiet I promise)So now we often read them together taking turns to read aloud. Small Gods is my favourite and I think one of the best books ever written.
(DIR) Post #AzQjzIZ57RGn5sm6E4 by amethyst@chaos.social
2025-10-21T09:58:37Z
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@futurebird I love all his books... In the beginning I enjoyed the parody of the academic system the most but in his later books he became much more observant if society / philosophical - "Do you not know someone is not while their name is still spoken?" always stuck with me (paraphrased from Going Postal).
(DIR) Post #AzQqXO81XVx9v5l0dM by John_Loader@ohai.social
2025-10-21T11:12:00Z
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@futurebird are you doing his pre Discworld books including the one that first features it but is not the colour of magic?
(DIR) Post #AzQxsqSG7KfHX6Otai by cybeej@infosec.exchange
2025-10-21T12:34:20Z
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@futurebird I read it 15+ years ago ( the precise time escapes me) and I’m still kicking myself for not having started reading it 15 years before that 😟
(DIR) Post #AzRZ3U7tAfv5ltoEfQ by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T19:30:43Z
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@futurebird It's one series that goes on, and the sequels get better and better.