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Originally Posted by TrevorViking
I've only read one or two of them decades ago, but aren't they sort of self contained?
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They are. They reference events in other books, but it's not required knowledge to have read them all. You
will get more out of them if you've read them in chronological order, but I read them first in totally non-chronological order and enjoyed them immensely. I would go so far as to say this is the most approachable large series out there.
So just grab one and try it, if you like it, look at the
reading order guides for how the various sub-series are linked to decide what you want to read next. For example, since this is the first book in the Rincewind subseries, you'd be fine just parsing through those and ignoring everything else till you finish them. That's largely what I did. I read the Watch novels first, then Death, then Witches, then Rincewind, and so on. I later re-read all forty (as of the time) novels in chronological order and it was a blast noticing all the references I had missed the first time.
