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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Sorry Jon, but I disagree. There's no reason that you can't read the "Watch" series (for instance) and enjoy them on their own. There is *nothing* inherently serial about the Discworld books. They inhabit a common world and have common characters that live in that world. Nothing more.
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Terry sometimes makes references to previous books and not just in the same arc. So unless you've read the previous books, the references won't mean as much or might not mean anything. Also, you could up up with spoilers for parts of earlier books. Take
Soul Music. There are huge references to previous books that if you have not read, then you won't understand the references.
Terry does not recap. So you have to have read the previous books. I like that he does not recap. That's just a waste since we should already have read in published order. Even Terry agrees that the order is the published order.
Do you want to ruin the reading experience for yourself and others by recommending a chart that is so wrong? You just enjoy reading out of order and reading spoilers and stuff you won't understand. I'll just enjoy the books as they were meant to be enjoyed and I hope others will do the same.