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Originally Posted by JSWolf
They would only be official if Terry had a hand in creating them. As he had no hand in any of them, none of them are official.
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Now, Jon you gave a page that seems to give a reading order from the publisher. I gave another one from that same publisher with a different reading order. Or, at least, that gives several different reading orders and starting points.
You said yours was official. I said mine was official. And now you're saying that the publisher doesn't know what's official, only Terry should have any say in the reading order of his books.
I'm happy to agree. As I've
mentioned before, Terry did have something to say about the reading order, as part of a speech he gave at the 2004 WorldCon:
"My first novel was published by the first publisher I sent it to. And so I've been learning as I go, and I find it now rather embarrassing that people beginning the Discworld series start with
The Colour of Magic and
The Light Fantastic, which I don't think are some of the best books to start with. This is the author saying this, folks. Do not start at the beginning with Discworld."
Let me repeat that last bit for and with emphasis:
"
This is the author saying this, folks. Do not start at the beginning with Discworld."
There. The
official word on Discworld reading order, from the author's mouth.