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Thanks for the very thorough reply! Yeah I realized I ended up with a mishmash but that's what was at the shop
I put a hold on the first two books of the sub series you mentioned so I'll wait on those two. I'm certainly looking forward to finding which one hits me the best. I've always loved weird, silly, absurd books and with every recommendation I've seen given for Pratchett makes me think these would be just right
You ended up with an exceptionally good mishmash.
If you just read the ones you have randomly, you'd still be very well off. Pratchett was very dedicated to having almost all of his stories function as standalone entities. I'd agree with maybe picking up Mort and reading it before Reaper Man, but, you're going to have a good time regardless and it's more of a thing where you'll just have more of the background setup for you coming into the next book.
Like I said, mishmash is OK, you can definitely read most Discworld stuff out of order and not struggle. Pratchett was great at treating every book like it was the reader's first.
And yeah, weird is definitely his thing. He's a genuinely phenomenal writer, and if anything I think he's still kind of under-appreciated.