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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This series does not recap. Jokes sometimes don't make sense if you've not read the books that help the jokes make sense. Terry does not recap. Characters to crossover. Places are as much a character as some of the characters. Places and background characters evolve even in different stories so if you read out of order, you very much spoil this natural progression.
These are all very good reasons to read in published order. The naysayers are 100% WRONG!
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Terry recaps all the time. Some footnotes are nearly the same in multiple books. Some jokes are repeated. This gets less with the newer books, but the older ones are all perfectly fine on their own. You don't need to understand or know everything about a world, to enjoy reading about it (heck, who understands our world?) Pratchett makes it extremely easy to just read his books. As he would say: where does a story begin? Do you get all the references all the time? I don't think so. And yet you understand and enjoy him nonetheless. Do you need to have read Shakespeare to enjoy the witches books? No. But you may take more out of them, if you did. But maybe it inspires you to read some Shakespeare, if you hadn't before.