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Originally Posted by jgaiser
You have my curiosity up. Finally at home and able to look at the L-Space website's Reading Order Guide and I see that Soul Music is completely out the story arc of the Watch Novels and in fact is part of the Death Novels arc. Are you just looking at publish dates? Soul Music was the next novel published after Men At Arms. Problem is I like following the novel arcs and the *correct* book to read after Men At Arm is Feet Of Clay. Sometimes published order isn't really the best way to read a series of novels, especially as large a series as the Discworld novels |
I agree with JSWolf that the
best way to read Discworld is in publication order. But we disagree in emphasis. I think it's best, but I don't think it's that important. Pratchett himself, in the front of
Lords and Ladies says:
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By and large, most Discworld books have stood by themselves, as complete books. It helps to have read them in some kind of order, but it's not essential.
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