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Originally Posted by wayspooled
I think I'd recommend Wyrd Sisters, Guards Guards, Reaper Man or Moving Pictures.
Those aren't the first books by any means but as I mentioned elsewhere a while ago, TP's first 3 or 4 Discworld books I thought were more "feeling the way" into this new world he was creating. I started to read them first in order and wound up putting them aside for a few years and then happened to read one of the later books which knocked me almost out of my chair laughing. At least that was my experience.
My favorite characters are Gaspode the dog, Death, Granny and all of the Nac Mac Feegle.
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The first few books got repetitive by falling back on the dungeon dimensions one too many times, but he moved away from that and even had the guts to make a crack about it in one of his later books. It was the one where they had the dwarven printing press. Vetinari came and started poking around to make sure there wasn't anything eldritch about it. He said that he had learned that anything new everyone was talking about would open up a door to the dungeon dimensions.