Kaz - depends what you're interested in. Soul Music is a rock music thing, Small Gods is religion, Maskerade is theatre, The Truth is journalism...

There's a sort of "recommended order" page going about somewhere that always gets mentioned when people ask this on afp, I'll try and dig it out.

OK: go here. It's a bit odd, mind, but that's only to be expected...



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I wouldn't recommend Soul Music to start with Discworld, as it is one of the later Death novels, but start with "Mort" (just for the Death novels) and go on with Reaper Man, before reading Soul Music, because in this order the whole background story of who the Death of Rats ( I love him, my all time favourite character) and who Susan Sto Lat is, is explained. It's not, that one couldn't understand Soul Music without the other novels, but why complicate things?



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"Start at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stop."

How many people here have read the [very] short Discworld story, starring Carrot Ironfounderson and titled 'Theatre of Cruelty', whose first [& only?] appearance was in a BBC magazine?

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Theatre of Cruelty
Read it here [members.fortunecity.com] It has also been included in several anthologies.


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*hand up* Me, me I've read it, but not in a BBC mag. 'Troll Bridge', 'TOC' and 'The sea and little fishes' have all appeared in SF/fantasy anthologies, which is where I read them. (OK, I read TSALF in Waterstones and didn't actually buy the book, because the rest of it was crap).



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I've read it. I've read all the ones Jon has, I think. But not in a BBC mag either.

KT, do [ url=blah blah blah]text you want[ /url ], but without all the spaces!



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Kaz -

The first few Pratchetts are rather different from the later ones. The first few aren't bad, but I think it gets a lot better when he ditches all that Dungeon Dimensions stuff, and makes Unseen University into a farce. So in brief, 'Wyrd Sisters' every time. If you see a 'witches' collection (I'm sure there is one) that would be very good value.

I first read Pratchett just after ex wife left me. Deep misery was turned into helpless laughter. I read about twenty on the trot, and depite our differences, ex and family also loved them when I gave a recommend. You can't get fairer than that.

Makes PierXanthony appear inept.

Wyrd Sisters or Pyramids are the two absolute classics, when he was just sending stuff up pure and simple. The older ones have lost some of the humour.



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