I couldn't find a copy at a local bookstore for a bit, but eventually succeeded), and they felt like coming home. I blazed through Equal Rites and Sourcery in a handful of days ( Mort is up to bat now. There was a feeling of "I'm satirizing these very specific things, but with much less love and fondness" that I didn't personally enjoy. I bounced off of The Last Continent within the first few pages, but gave Unseen Academicals a read, with much the same feeling as Interesting Times.
By defining the limits of the world with lists of known and recurring characters, the world felt somehow smaller to me.
fine, really, but the unrestrained weirdness of early Discworld was gone. I made the mistake of reading the first two then jumping to Interesting Times, the transition to which was best described as a big shrug.
My reread began during the early days of the pandemic, when a combination of working from home and an uncertainty of both the scale of Covid-19 and any eventual vaccine meant I had a lot of time with myself and my books (and my fiancee-now-wife and our one-now-two birds, but they're beyond the scope of the current topic except to say I love and appreciate them to little bits, and they put up with my occasional paragraphs-long rants about books), and I wanted the book equivalent of comfort food: something familiar to keep me anchored in a world gone mad. Also, while the world may be less filled out than later volumes, there's still plenty of worldbuilding that makes Discworld an interesting place where interesting things happen. Are they much more of a fantasy pastiche? Very much so, but there is a certain reluctant hero-ness to Rincewind that I find appealing, especially as I've gotten older and done what I can to live a boring life, despite hardship and unpleasantness periodically kicking my door down. Of course, any reader is welcome to read Discworld in any order they please, but I would respectfully suggest at least giving the early books a try. Additionally, I've just finished rereading Sourcery after 20-odd years, and I felt clever for the Arthurian reference.Īnyway, any time Terry Pratchett's Discworld series comes up many of the top comments I see are advising new readers to simply skip either the first two novels ( The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic), or even all the way to Wyrd Sisters or Guards! Guards!. Alright, maybe the title is overselling the topic a bit, but I felt it was necessary to get the thesis statement out of the way.
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