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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have to very much disagree. Good way to ruin the series. Terry says the way to read is in published order and I have to agree.
Even if you find the first two books hard to read, they are still important to have read before moving on.
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I didn't intend to ruin the series for anyone. I actually, by and large, read the books in order, and I haven't really found the first two books all that helpful in my ability to understand them. They weren't hard to read - they just weren't anything like as good as the others and might have put me off if I hadn't read Thief of Time first. My second book was Equal Rites, which I hated. Then I read CoM and have read in order ever since, which I feel has had its advantages and disadvantages, but it works for me. If I'd read CoM, followed by LF, followed by ER, I wouldn't have got any further, and that would have been a damned shame.
However, the biggest Discworld fan I know hasn't read any of them in order and that hasn't affected his enjoyment of them at all - and he remembers more about any of them than I do, despite having read them much longer ago than I did. I don't think there's one right way of doing it, which I said in my original posts, I was just saying what worked for me and the people I know who've read Discworld. It certainly hasn't ruined it for any of us - quite the opposite.