# Discworld: Which book finally hooked you?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-which-book-finally-hooked-you/727808 "2015-08-14T04:47:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-which-book-finally-hooked-you/727808/41 "2015-08-15T05:56:24Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> (bolding mine)
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> OMFG, what you said there totally resonates with me. I was recently promoted to the head of my department at work, and now I’m the manager of a bunch of fucking teenaged girls who don’t understand what “having a job” means. Here I am, killing myself, trying to make sure my customers are happy, because I wouldn’t still be doing what I do after 32 years if I didn’t care. And I have to deal with these teenaged twits who are just working for pocket money, and trying to make them understand that serving the customer is the most important fucking thing.
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> Goddam, I’m printing this out and posting it.

_The Wee Free Men_ is one of those books that is made of quotes.

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**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-which-book-finally-hooked-you/727808/42 "2015-08-15T05:57:51Z")

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I read Mort a half year ago. It was ok. I’m not hooked yet. Not sure what the next book should be.

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-which-book-finally-hooked-you/727808/43 "2015-08-15T06:11:37Z")

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I had heard about Discworld and on another message board I asked for recommendations to start. With those recommendations in mind, I headed for the local book store. They didn’t have Mort, which was recommended, but they had Reaper Man. At that time, I was on the road for 3 weeks at a time, so I was stocking up on paperbacks, so I probably got Color of Magic, Light Fantastic, and another, not a Witch one, at the same time. I think of CoM and LF as 2 parts of the same novel. I probably got hooked on them, because I really liked Rincewind. I didn’t like Death very much in those two books, but in Reaper Man, I came to like him.

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