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Originally Posted by davidfor
And that's where I would normally start a new series as well. But, when there are a lot of suggestions that that it is not the best place to start a specific series, I would consider doing something else. And in this case, the evidence is to strong to ignore. Just look at this thread. There is only one person saying you must start with the first Discworld book and only one other even vaguely suggesting it. Everyone else is giving good reasons for a different order.
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But we have to remember, there are those who think some books in a series are standalone because they have a beginning, middle, and end. That does not make a book standalone. Standalone is when there is nothing that connects it to any other book in the series. a book like
Guards! Guards! does have a connection to other book(s). Also, a lot of people do like the first few books. Given that you know the series is good, there's no reason not to start at the beginning and go from there. You know you'll get to what some are calling the better books. You don't know what it is you missing. I do think you are missing a lot from not starting at the beginning.
The thing is, these people saying not to start at the beginning, did they start at the beginning or are they just parroting what other have said? I don't think you can say how good or not the the first few books are if you have not read them yourself.