Accidentally found post about book series and comments were overwhelmingly postive, since there are so many books decided to search little bit more about Series if it really was worth reading and answer is BIG FAT YES.
Didnt find anyone talking anything bad about it or any negative comments. Just overwhelmingly positive… That makes me question, such a great book, why i never heard about it? I mean i often google search what should i read, especially fantasy genre and i never ever heard about it, neither anyone suggested it.
Whats the catch?
by Mammoth-Store740
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No idea where you’re looking up books but the Discworld series is pretty overwhelmingly recommended by people.
Now you’ve heard of it
You must go around in very different circles than I do. I’m surprised you escaped the series if your on Reddit at cause they get brought up all the time, even in subs that have nothing to do with books.
The series is absolutely amazing and I honestly have no idea why it’s not talked about more. I loved it so much.
The first few are the worst (but still pretty good imo), some books in the series are among my all time favourite books ever!
I mean it’s one of the most famous and best selling fantasy series of all times so it’s not an unknown. However I think it’s satirical elements do make it tricky to recommend to people as most people looking for book reccs are looking for more serious books.
It is one of the biggest fantasy series of all time, both in size and popularity, and indisputably the most influential comedic fantasy series of all time. I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of it, but if you were to ask for my honest guess: you must live under a rock.
there’s no catch, just people have really shallow, short memories these days. the culture as a whole has become more fragmented so there isn’t as much of a general consensus now. also, it keeps refreshing itself at a much faster pace than it used to before all the shift induced by social media.
with that said . . .
>Didnt find anyone talking anything bad about it or any negative comments. Just overwhelmingly positive
pratchett fans are very, **very** dedicated. people who are more lukewarm about the books (like me) usually know better than to stick their opinions into the blades of that helicopter.
There’s no catch—Discworld is both immensely popular and heavily recommended in pretty much all spec-fic spaces, and for good reason. You’re just one of today’s [lucky 10,0000](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Discworld isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but they’re a brilliant series. Unfortunately the writer (Sir Terry Pratchett) passed away a couple of years ago and there won’t be any new books anymore. Because of his deteriorating health the last books are of a somewhat lesser quality, as are the first ones as he was getting in his stride. There really isn’t any other catch, you just lived under a brick considering it’s a very influential series and there’s even been several movies and a tv series.
That said, it’s best to look up a guide for the best reading order. You can do by published dates but there’s more options than that. For example the books that are thematically connected (Unseen University, City Guard, etc).
No catch. Imo, it is the perfect series. Funny, poignant, exciting and a whole bunch of other adjectives. To boot, you can pretty much pick up any story in the series and have a great time reading it on its own. I have no idea why no one ever mentioned it to you before! I’ll pick up a random book in that series and read it when I need a comfort read.
No catch. Great, funny series. I especially like the Death character.
It is a.) British, b.) fantasy and c.) satire
But Pratchett is a master of his field, and well worth reading. It just doesn’t register on a lot of mainstream marketing.
There is no catch? It’s pretty well known, but not as well known as things like Lord of the rings. Not a lot of people outside of the fantasy crowd will likely know it. People who love it, tend to REALLY love it though. So there are lots of die hard fans, leading to all the positive experiences/reviews. But that doesn’t mean everyone loves it. I personally tried around 6-7 of them and decided it’s not for me. The humor doesn’t really land for me and I don’t really like his writing style. The only way to know is to try it.
If you’re in America, Terry’s books only gained real popularity in the 90’s, which is when I picked up Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal at a local library and became a lifelong devotee. Because he’s not hard fantasy, hard sci-fi, or strictly satire/comedy, he didn’t really fit genre very well, and I feel like he suffered being compared to Douglas Adams, who, let’s face it, is funny as heck and brilliant but can’t actually stitch a plot together.
If you’re in the UK, I don’t think you have a really good excuse other than you missed the bus somehow.
The catch is that some of the beginning books are kind of hit and miss. And frankly, there’s so many of the books that books themselves can be hit or miss. But there are true gems in the series for sure.
Don’t know where in the world you are, but I think it’s less talked about in the US, so maybe it’s true of other countries outside the UK? Not unheard of here, but only fellow sci-fi/fantasy geeks I know have heard of it, not just average people on the street.
i think i first read equal rites like…15 years ago. why havent you heard about it? i guess you just suck at finding out about cool books lol.
Because they’re funny, so they’re seen as lesser than by the lotr/asoiaf type fantasy readers.
It’s a type of humor which isn’t for everyone. The first two books are pretty strong, but for the ~20 after that, it’s almost exclusively punning and parody. Only from the 25th book onward (or thereabouts) did Terry Pratchett – as he said it himself – “discover the joys of plot”. From that point onward, the series got amazingly good, building on top of the very rich tapestry of a world which he’d developed already – but it can be quite a slog to get there, with multiple pretty weak books.
I’d undoubtedly still highly recommend the series, but I’d probably recommend reading a mostly standalone volume from late in the series first (e.g. *Monstrous Regiment* or *Going Postal*), so you know what the payoff will be. And although there are several semi-essential early books from a worldbuilding point of view, there are also many which can be skipped completely, such as *Eric*.
There are differing ideas on which order the books should be ready in. Plenty of online discussions on that topic.
Maybe you weren’t meant to see it until now. Discworld will reveal itself when it’s time.