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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Diskworld isn't a straight series and MORT stands alone on its own.
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Sorry, but I disagree. Discworld is an ongoing work. It does have an order. While the main characters can change, a lot of the time you get the same background and some of the same secondary characters.
The background and secondary characters do go through a progression and they are as much a part of the story as the main characters. Besides, the one of the main characters in Mort is a secondary character in other stories that came before and you do spoil things reading
Mort out of order. So no, Discworld books are not standalone.
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And length is just a number. Reader engagement is more important. Relevance to the times is more important.
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The length matters depending on how many books the teacher planed on reading for that class.
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Beyond that, we agree there is no shortage of worthy modern fiction, right? Both within FS&F and outside it.
Classics are great but they aren't the only answer.
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Agreed, there are other books that can be used instead of just OLD classics.