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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, there is also Pyramids.  |
Yeah, I forgot that one wasn't strictly chrono-sequenced either. Closed time-loops vs timeline-hopping do complicate things.
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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
I'd like to start them on something light, but fun just to get them into Diskworld in general.
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In addition to the other suggestions,
Pyramids and maybe
Moving Pictures would probably be pretty decent jumping-on points if not starting at the very beginning.
They are mostly self-contained (especially Pyramids) with non-recurring main characters and plots that don't tie into other plots, but at the same time introduce other strong supporting characters and concepts (such as Detritus and Gaspode the Wonder Dog and the Assassin's Guild and the wizards under Ridcully) at early points in their development which are mostly not too spoilery for previous appearances (if any; IIRC, MP is the actual 1st appearance of Gaspode and Ridcully) if you want to avoid that, and tend not to refer back to previous books in a way that tells you the outcome of a previous tale.
And they're both very funny and relatively light-hearted compared to some of the future books, eldritch abominations of the silver screen notwithstanding.
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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
She especially likes Anthropomorphic type books (intelligent animals), so she's also reading the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster.
Oh and empowered female type characters, so I'm thinking Sourcery for her.
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If
Sourcery for your daughter, then definitely follow up with the Tiffany Aching series,
which does eventually have a callback to that further on in the series (ETA: oops, wrong book that has a sourcerer in it, I was thinking of
Equal Rites). They're tilted to younger readers to begin with, but they "grow" a bit in tone as Tiffany does.
Also, she might enjoy
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, which is chock-full of anthropomorphic animals, and has empowered female characters in it, even though again, it's written more towards a younger audience.