• What book is currently on your nightstand?
  • Who is the author?
  • What genre?
  • How do you like it?
  • Would you recommend it to others?
  • theinspectorst
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    31 year ago

    I finished Guards! Guards! recently - loved it! For years I struggled to get into Discworld because I kept starting The Colour of Magic and then failing to finish it. Eventually broke the back of it and then progressed onto the other books - with hindsight I wish I’d done what I’ve seen suggested before, to start with something like Guards! Guards! instead of reading in release order.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah my buddy had me start there under the logic that I would enjoy it so much that I would get utterly sucked into the series and he would finally have someone to talk to about it lol. Which is understandable because that’s the same reason I wanted him to read Dune. Neither of us really have many other friends that read unfortunately.

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          I found Colour of Magic fine once I got into it, but it took me several attempts before it clicked for me - usually made it perhaps 50 pages in and then failed to pick up to again, so restarted a few years later. Whereas when I started Guards! Guards!, I couldn’t put it down and blitzed through it in no time.

          I particularly found that the Ankh-Morpork of Guards! Guards! was a far more interesting and settled setting than how it was depicted in Colour of Magic (where I thought it struggled to rise above being a generic fantasy parody and so never really caught my attention).