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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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Why go back when you can start at the beginning? Knowing that other books in the series might be better, you read the first two because you get a lot of information that come sin handy in later books. Skipping them is like starting The Lord of the Rings at
The Two Towers.