This is my first time trying out a Discworld novel and I’m super happy I did. I’m not far into the novel, but I’m already loving it. It takes high fantasy and mixes in hillarity, something I’ve not really found in high fantasy. I’m a Terry Brooks Shannara fan, since the '90’s, and it takes itself so serious. Discworld is just silly fun like Douglas Adams doing Fantasy or Monty Python writing a book. I’m absolutely loving it and assuming it continues I’m absolutely checking out other Discworld books.
Anyone have any suggestions on other fun silly fantasy books like Discworld, or is Discworld the top of the pile?
In case you arent aware, there are smaller “series” within discworld that you can read through, but because Sir Terry Pratchett wrote whatever he wanted whenever it can be hard to know which books to read in what order. If you’re like me and liked Vimes and Carrot enough to read book two, check out this link for more info on reading order: https://www.discworldemporium.com/reading-order/
is Discworld the top of the pile?
This.
I reread Guards! Guards! last week. (I have lost count of how many times I have read it.)
I am actually envious of you as you have so much joy ahead pf you getting to know the diskworld.
I’m really enjoying it and really excited about it if this continues. I read Douglas Adams a while ago and his stuff just got stale for me as it was silly, but it felt methodically so. So far this is great and I’m really looking forward to more.
I understand that envy though. When you love something and wish you could share it with others and feel their enjoy when they first experience it. Finally watched Casablanca the other day for the first time and wow, so amazing. Been trying to dive into new things as there’s just so much wonder and unknown in all this stuff that it feels so fresh compared to the same rehashed movies we’re constantly fed today.
I read all of Discworld in the order in which they were published. I always felt that Guards Guards was where the discworld really came together and the world building had matured and given rise to the most incredible stories. I love all of the discworld books, but I am especially fond of the ones about the nightwatch.
That was my first Discworld book also. Good times. Terry Pratchett was an amazing writer and a great human in general.
My first Terry Prattchett books were the Wee Free Men series of books. I just loved reading the thick accent of the characters. (Took me a long while to figure out at this ‘ship’ they were taking about was a sheep)
Going Postal is my favorite of the books, although I think I’ve missed out of Guards! Guards! somehow.
Sir Terry was the best, but there are some other really solid ones out there. I suggest the Dark Profit series by J. Zachary Pike, which starts with Orconomics, or A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.
Are they similarly funny? Or more serious?
I love the witches Discworld books, equal rites is my all time favourite. I can also recommend the death books, and also thief of time.
Enjoy, they’re all fantastic. …light fantastic…
Pratchett has been my favorite author bar none for the past 30 years. I coincidentally just finished rereading Guards Guards but pretty much all of the Discworld series is amazing. Silly fun, absolutely, but very often also with deeper insight, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much.
I couldn’t begin to think of anything that compares but if there is I’d love to hear it.
It didn’t really get better than dis world. I can definitely recommend reading the whole series after Guards Guards.
There’s so many Discworld books, you might as well read them. The ones I have read have all been fantastic. My first was Guards, Guards! as well and then I went on to read all the City Watch books and then the Death books. I wish I was still reading them, but I haven’t been doing much reading in years. The Wizards books were next on my list. I just love the humor mixed with refreshing social commentary. Especially considering the books are older, it makes me happy to know that even in decades past, there were still people who knew better. Pratchett gave me hope for humanity/society and made me laugh at the same time
I am a massive fan of Discworld and found that, while Discworld is the cream of the crop, the NPCs series by Drew Hayes and Greg Costikyan’s “One Quest, Hold The Dragons” , and “Another Day, Another Dungeon” really hit the humorous fantasy sweet spot for me.
Same author but not Discworld: check out the Bromeliad trilogy.
