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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I didn't mean to sound quite so definitive. I merely meant that the published order will definitely make sense and won't spoil any of the other books. (Actually, in the case of Discworld, the published order might even be in internal chronological order. I'd never really thought of that before, but I can't think of any counter-examples.)
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Well, OK then.
But keep in mind, that while published order will almost certainly not have spoilers, if a lot of people keep saying that not-published-order also doesn't spoil things, that might be true too.
I am less concerned about the internal chronology in a series where the books are only loosely connected, if at all. Where do you put
Pyramids, for example -- and does it matter?
And
Small Gods certainly happened long before any of the other books, with the theological exception of
Pyramids (of course
)... but does that one actually matter?
Night Watch really happens about thirty years ago, of course, which I think predates
The Color of Magic but certainly predates most of the books "before" it.
Barring those notable exceptions, I can't think of anything that was explicitly out of chronological order, but I still don't see why that is a reason to stick to the chronology.
Because once again, if the books follow completely different sets of characters, set in the same world, who gives a fig if it's in chronological order?
