I appreciate your explanation and recommendation. Just wanted to second how incredibly confusing this guide is. According to you, starting with Small Gods is a good place. But in this “guide” that’s the 8th row, 3rd column, and not colored as a starter book.
This guide seems more fit for someone who’s already read the books, rather than being useful for someone looking as a place to start.
I agree that this guide isn’t very easy to follow. It also seems to be attempting to show additional subseries like “industrial revolution”, which is sort of an ongoing theme across different subseries but not necessarily something that stands on its own (I would consider Moving Pictures or The Truth more standalone books). Or the history monks that pop up in several scattered books but aren’t exactly major characters for the most part. That said, there’s not exactly a wrong place to start so long as you’re willing to give the first few books a little leeway, somewhat like the first season of a longer TV show.
I appreciate your explanation and recommendation. Just wanted to second how incredibly confusing this guide is. According to you, starting with Small Gods is a good place. But in this “guide” that’s the 8th row, 3rd column, and not colored as a starter book.
This guide seems more fit for someone who’s already read the books, rather than being useful for someone looking as a place to start.
I agree that this guide isn’t very easy to follow. It also seems to be attempting to show additional subseries like “industrial revolution”, which is sort of an ongoing theme across different subseries but not necessarily something that stands on its own (I would consider Moving Pictures or The Truth more standalone books). Or the history monks that pop up in several scattered books but aren’t exactly major characters for the most part. That said, there’s not exactly a wrong place to start so long as you’re willing to give the first few books a little leeway, somewhat like the first season of a longer TV show.