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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Or Small Gods, which can stand alone very well, and is my hands-down favorite.
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Indeed. It took me a long while to start reading Pratchett because I never liked the covers. Anyway, one day I saw Small Gods in a bargain bin too cheap to resist - and I was hooked from page 1.
After that I skipped merrily around in the series, picking the books out by favourite characters, which means I read all the Watch books pretty quickly, for instance. No problem in not reading chronologically here. All the books are perfectly comprehensible on their own, and nothing beats that wonderful feeling that you get when a joke from a later book suddenly gets an extra dimension from something you read in an earlier one.
But of course I've been reading the ones that came out after I started reading Pratchett chronologically, and watching characters like Tiffany or Moist von Lipwig appear and mature is a joy as well.