Yesterday was so hot that I couldn't even bear the thought of going out or doing anything at all, so I spent most of the day reading.
After finishing
The Colour of Magic (see thoughts below), I also started and finished
Picture Perfect by Holly Smale (the third book in her contemporary YA
Geek Girl series). This isn't my genre, and I'm far from being the target group for these, but while I don't consider the books "perfect", they've just "clicked" for me - I enjoyed the first two books a whole lot (and much more than I ever expected to) and this third one was no exception.
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Originally Posted by gmw
Yes, the first book isn't anything that special, and it is very much just the first half of a story that concludes with "The Light Fantastic". Things definitely pick up after that. Note that once you've read these first two you are better set to pick up almost any Discworld book. Reading in publication order will give you the best overall experience, but if you have trouble liking certain story threads (for example some of the wizard stories tend toward farce on occasion, which is not to everyone's tastes), then it is not absolutely essential you read every book.
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Thanks - this pretty much confirms what I've heard from others.
I have the first five books (in publishing order, I think), so I'll probably make my way through these eventually and then decide if it's for me or not. I finished The Colour of Magic yesterday and ... well, I enjoyed bits of it and ended up skimming others, after staring at a page for five minutes and realising I wasn't taking anything in (the language was at times very amusing but at times so... overdone, that I just couldn't really get into it).
I'm not entirely sure Pratchett is or will be my cup of tea - that entire type of fantasy that has wildly imaginative world-building and a very particular, clever, self-aware use of language seems to be something that just doesn't really work for me, no matter how much I'd like it to (it's the same with Gaiman and Mieville) - but I didn't
dislike this first book, and did enjoy parts of it, so since I've got more books bought already anyway, I'll eventually try some more.