# Disc World series. What order should I buy them in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039 "2003-09-02T00:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/21 "2003-09-03T11:39:24Z")
:smack: His _Educated_ Rodents, not Flying. ---
**Author:** ![jtull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jtull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtull)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/22 "2003-09-03T12:05:29Z")
I’ve read these childrens’ books, and I must say I enjoyed them a lot. The **Johnny** series are great, as well as the **Bromeliad** trilogy (“Truckers”, “Diggers”, “Wings”). I have to recommend them to anyone that has read the Discworld series and are keen on reading more Pratchett. I just hadn’t realised that **WFM** was intended to be a childrens’ book. By the way, I bought \*\* Maurice \*\* at the same time I bought \*\* WFM\*\*, so I had no idea that he had used the Discworld as a background for childrens’ books before. Now I can appreciate \*\* WFM\*\* for what it was meant to be, instead of judging it harshly for not being what I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/23 "2003-09-03T12:06:41Z")
_Eric_, like _The Last Hero_, was produced as an _illustrated_ story - so, the text is necessarily slighter than that of an ordinary novel in the series. (Of course, it’s not going to appeal if you don’t like Josh Kirby’s illustrations, either … ) Me? I started with the early ones (some time ago, now). Never did me any harm … the middle ones, though (when he’d hit his stride as a writer, but before the series got so crowded with recurring characters) are probably the best to start with now. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/24 "2003-09-03T16:51:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > **_Eric_, like _The Last Hero_, was produced as an _illustrated_ story - so, the text is necessarily slighter than that of an ordinary novel in the series.** Course the paperback version in the US has no illustrations, is only a hundred and something pages, and costs $6.99. That massive ripoff colored my view. BTW, the Canadian editions have the cool UK covers. Too bad they are priced rather more expensive than the US ones, even after conversion. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/25 "2003-09-03T19:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Terry Pratchett on a bad day still whomps the stuffing out of 98% of the rest of the Dewey Decimal System, IMO. 🙂 \*\* Well, he would - Dewey Decimal is used almost exclusively for non-fiction. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/26 "2003-09-03T19:42:57Z")
Oh, sure, _spoil_ my gag whydon’cha. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Daylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/27 "2003-09-07T12:09:57Z")
In short…they’re ALL GOOD…buy em all… he’s still the funniest mind in literature. I would love to get him, Robin Williams, Eddie Izzard and myself together over dinner. My fave quote from “Mort” "The thing between Death’s triumphant digits was a fly from the dawn of time. It was the fly in the primordial soup. It had bred on mammoth turds. It wasn’t a fly that bangs on window panes, it was a fly that drills through walls. - Death ties his first fly fishing lure D. ---
**Author:** ![nicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f0a364/32.png) [@nicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicky)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/28 "2003-10-03T21:41:26Z")
No No No!!, Don’t start in the middle, the very very best books - and the best ones to start with - are Wyrd Sisters - the second in the Witches series Mort - the first of the Death series Guards! Guards! - the first in the City Watch series Small Gods - not in a series, the most profound I think ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039/29 "2003-10-03T22:28:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nicky \* > \*\*No No No!!, > > Don’t start in the middle, the very very best books - and the best ones to start with - are > > Wyrd Sisters - the second in the Witches series > > Mort - the first of the Death series > > Guards! Guards! - the first in the City Watch series > > Small Gods - not in a series, the most profound I think \*\* Not being at the beginning, those books would appear to be the middle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disc-world-series-what-order-should-i-buy-them-in/199039.md?page=1)