so you want to read terry pratchett's
discworld but you don't know where to
start well hopefully I can be of some
help I imagine you've heard the name
Terry Pratchett before as he was quite
the prolific author and the majority of
his books are set in a universe of his
own making the Discworld if you're not
familiar the Discworld is a disc which
sits on the back of four elephants that ride through space on the back of a
giant turtle named A'Tuin within the
Discworld there are great many different cities and places a lot of which have a
comedic twist on stereotypical
conceptions of countries in our own world such as Djelibeybi which is
based on ancient Egypt and that is only
the beginning and within these places
there are a multitude of hilarious and
fascinating characters which have their
very own books and sometimes guest star and other books there are more than 40
books in the Discworld series however
the word series is somewhat misleading all of these books are set on the
Discworld but you do not have to read
them from the first published to the
latest published it's not really that
kind of series however within the
Discworld set of books there are series
in themselves so there are five main
series along with a selection of
standalone books there is the Rincewind
and wizards series there is the Death
and Susan series there is the city watch
series there is a Moist von Lipwig
series and there's a Tiffany Aching
series and in a moment I will introduce
you to the five books that introduce
these independent series all of which are
excellent places to start with the
Discworld however along with these five
series there are a number of standalone
books in which the main characters are
not main characters in any other books
although they might appear in other books as like I said all of these books
are set on the same world so there are
reoccurring characters characters like
death who's an anthropomorphic
personification of a concept that does
occur quite often does pop in to a
number of stories outside of his own
series however you do not have to read his series to read standalone books in
which he appears in and you do not have
to read the standalone books
in which he appears in to appreciate his
series before I tell you about the books in which I'd probably recommend are best
to start with I do want to mention that
I do hold the belief that you can start with any book in the Discworld series
and still appreciate and enjoy and laugh along with the story however I do
appreciate when there is this number of
books within a series or set in the same
world that is a little bit intimidating and you might be unsure of whether
you've missed something that happened
before when you start with a book so
here are my recommendations for beginners with the Discworld series and
maybe also important to add that I
haven't actually read all of the
disc world books but I have read over half
so I am deeply immersed in the world and feel I can at least give you a few
recommendations the first book published in the Discworld was the colour of magic
and this is a rincewind and wizards
story which is part of its own series so
if you want to start with the rincewind
and wizards series then you can go ahead
and start with the first Discworld book
however I would recommend that you read
these along side one another or well you read this one and closely afterwards
read the light fantastic as this book
has literally no plot and Terry
Pratchett himself acknowledges this so
he then wrote the like fantastic which
has a lot more of a story and a
narrative to follow the characters in so
these ones are really appear because of
this however they might not be the ones
you want to start with and you definitely don't have to start with them
just because they were the first ones
written instead you may want to start
with the death series which begins with
Mort
which follows death appointing an
apprentice for the first time his name
is Mort ha lots of puns in these books
then there is also the city watch series which follows the police service esque
body that patrol Ankh-Morpork which is
the capital of the Discworld and mimics
London and that begins with guards
guards then there is the witches series
which begins with weird sisters and this
follows a sisterhood of three witches
including the infamous Granny Weatherwax
joined by nanny ogg and magret then this
I might add is my all-time favorite
Discworld book and one of my favorite
books of all time in general and that is
going postal and this follows our main
character moist von lipwig who is an ex
somewhat ex-con man who is trying to go
straight
really not through his own choice and
in going postal moist von lipwig is
charged with rebuilding the post office
in Ankh-Morpork and the last series is a
slightly different one and it's his YA
series which is the Tiffany aching series so these ones are aimed at a
slightly younger audience which might be a good way to introduce yourself to
Discworld if you do enjoy your young adult books and these are the Tiffany
Aching books I don't actually have the
first one on me as I've leant it to a friend
but it is the wee free men this was actually the series that got me into
the discworld although I started reading it
when I was around ten so as a
ten-year-old this was perfect for me
the Tiffany aching series follows a
young witch new to the craft
Tiffany Aching and her adventures in the
Discworld often with the help of some
little Pictsies named the wee Free men who
are stereotypical little Scottish
crazy men and they are very good fun now
all of those books make excellent places
to start as they are the beginning of
their own series and you do not have to
read any other Discworld to read them
there are however some standalone books
in the Discworld series and I will show
you a couple of my favorite stand-alones
I think you can read without any basis
in the Discworld at all first is one of
my all-time favorite discworld books
and that's equal rites this is sometimes
bunched in with The Witches series
however I consider it a standalone and I
know a lot of people that consider it a
standalone and it's links to the witch's
series are tenuous it does star some of
the witches as I've said there are
reoccurring characters however they are
not the main characters you do not need to be familiar with them to read this
book and you do not need to read this
book to start weird sisters as the plots
do not follow on from one another however excellent standalone book and if
you want to start with this one then go
ahead I'd highly recommend and this is
about the first female wizard in the
Discworld then another standalone I
think makes an excellent starting place
is pyramids and this is the book that is set partially in djelibeybi based on
ancient Egypt and follows the son of the country's last pharaoh who has recently
passed away and
his ascension or attempted ascension to
the throne and the last stand-alone that
I'm going to mention is the truth and
this follows the first newspaper to hit
the Discworld as you can see this is the
25th Discworld novel however don't need
to read any other Discworld novels to
have read this anyway I hope this was
helpful for those of you that haven't
started with the Discworld or maybe
picked up one of the books and not been
caught up in the world and want to try
again I wish you luck with your
adventure as it will be a spectacular
one and a hilarious one as I am a
massive fan of Terry Pratchett's comic
fantasy world if you have a favorite
discworld book then please let me know
it I hope you enjoyed this video and
until the next one happy reading bye