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.
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.
@Entropy Never did much like Color of Magic, but I love the guards books. Men at Arms and Night Watch are all-time favorites. Pratchett loved Carrot, but he was fascinated with Vimes (and Vetinari).
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).
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.
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.
@Entropy Never did much like Color of Magic, but I love the guards books. Men at Arms and Night Watch are all-time favorites. Pratchett loved Carrot, but he was fascinated with Vimes (and Vetinari).
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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).