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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
The problem is that many people don't seem to enjoy the early books in the series and so stop reading before they get to the really good stuff.
I started with Small Gods and that was perfect for me, since it convinced me that Pratchett was a very funny author who had to be taken very seriously. So I always recommend that one or Death/Susan novels like Reaper Man or Hogfather as starting points. After that, order doesn't matter at all; each novel can stand on its own, and finding out about a character's back story in an earlier book you hadn't read before or following a character's development in chronological order can be equally delightful.
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I started from the beginning and I found it a very good experience doing so. The way Terry writes, you get a lot of useful information in the early books that you do want to know when you read past them. Terry doesn't recap and even though the main characters are different, places and background characters aren't always and you see their progression as you read. It's like living in Boston in 1800 and then suddently going to Boston in 1900. You miss everything that's happened in between t the paces and people.