TierMaker Discworld Community Tier List

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Obviously TierMaker isn’t the be all end all of community opinion, but I stumbled upon this tier list recently and found it strange. I have a handful of friends who have read some of the books, and they were surprised by some of the tierings too. Some trends I noticed:

  • “Entry” books seem to be tiered high, and books occuring later in the Discworld timeline get tiered lower
  • Tiffany Aching books are tiered very low
  • I believe the earlier books are generally getting tiered higher than the later books, but I haven’t actually verified that.

I guess my biggest question is is the opinions of the community actually so diverse? Maybe many folks haven’t read all the books so it gets skewed like that? The site says it compiles 32 tier lists which sounds like a decent amount of data to me.

  • @captainlezbian
    6•9 months ago

    So that list seems to be designed to go as far against me as they could get away with lol

    I generally think Discworld got better over time and that Tiffany Aching was some of his best writing. Sure it was less complicated and joke dense, but it was raw and powerful. It read like a man writing a role model for his daughter to be the sort of person he thought the world desperately needed more of. Someone thoughtful, intelligent, kind, and willing to do what needs done.

    Also night watch is probably the fan favorite book. That or shepherds crown.

    And I fucking loved the industrial revolution books and Susan Sto Helit, while mort was fine.

    • @OlPatchy2EyesOP
      2•9 months ago

      I’m currently in the final stretch of finishing all the novels. I think I’m reading my 32nd book now? Can’t wait to get to some of the Industrial Revolution stuff.

      • @captainlezbian
        3•9 months ago

        Yeah it’s fun. Raising steam was really fun as an engineer because it was one of the few times that I felt seen by an author in that side of myself. Not as some stuffy jackass or some brilliant hero of an age of progress but as a mad scientist who uses math to create things that cause change in all sorts of unexpected ways and revels in the sheer joy of creation.

        And Moist is a great foil to Vetinari and Vimes. He’s chaos harnessed

          • @captainlezbian
            3•9 months ago

            Ah well then you’ll be appreciating how the protagonist has the knowing of the sines and the cosines and the tangents.