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Marianne · 17th March 2004, 06:15 PM

I am not sure what you mean by essentials, but I would suggest you read the earlier works. Many of them are about the same people in the same locale in Discworld and they roughly follow a timeline. The city stories start with Guards! Guards! where you are introduced to the Night Watch gang(my favs) I don't have all the books here at this house, but I think Colour of Magic is the first Granny Weatherwax book...DD can help me out here. Maybe it is Equal Rites. But I would definately start with the first books and get a feel for the setting of Discworld. I actually read Strata first, a prequel to the Discworld series that isn't counted as a discworld novel.

17th March 2004, 06:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
Marianne Nanny Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 150	Re: Pratchett Essentials I am not sure what you mean by essentials, but I would suggest you read the earlier works. Many of them are about the same people in the same locale in Discworld and they roughly follow a timeline. The city stories start with Guards! Guards! where you are introduced to the Night Watch gang(my favs) I don't have all the books here at this house, but I think Colour of Magic is the first Granny Weatherwax book...DD can help me out here. Maybe it is Equal Rites. But I would definately start with the first books and get a feel for the setting of Discworld. I actually read Strata first, a prequel to the Discworld series that isn't counted as a discworld novel.