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Originally Posted by jgaiser
They're pleasant, funny little books. I enjoyed them first time I read them (they *were* the first Pratchett books I read), but the quality of his writing improved, his character development improved and he found his voice in the later novels. And having read a large proportion of the novels I would *never* start a new reader on the first two. You can always go back and enjoy Rincewind, Twoflower and the Box.
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And therein lies the difficulty in helping another reader. Readers develop over time too--their tastes become more defined or defined by life events. There are cozy readers who used to read thrillers, but who will not touch them now. It doesn't mean that thrillers have all suddenly become garbage. It's quite possible that a younger reader might be delighted in the simpler prose of those two early books. Or they might be even more particular than us old foggies. It's hard to say.
I went back and read Nancy Drew as an adult. I couldn't understand what happened to the delightfully COMPLICATED mysteries I had read. And character development? Goodness. I remembered Nancy as so much richer and more complex!
Writers change. Readers change. There's enough stories to go around.