The titles are:
"Reaper Man", "Small Gods", "Wyrd Sisters", "Moving Pictures"
Went to an adorable book shop and found these guys. I haven't read Pratchett yet but I feel it'll be right up my alley
I'm pretty sure I see "Small Gods" and "Wyrd Sisters" recommended a lot and I know you can't really go wrong, but of these which would you recommend the most? Since this is what I have I'll read them all eventually
Regardless I'm excited to have gotten physical copies because my library has long wait lists for his books
Edit: Thanks for all of the discussion! This post brought me a lot of positive on an otherwise rough day. I've decided to start with "Small Gods"
I just want to say again thank you to everyone who responded to me or to someone else. It's been a joy hearing what each person has to contribute to the conversation
Even if they fall flat (which I highly doubt) all of your enthusiasm came through and that really in itself means so much. It was truly touching
This is obviously a really unpopular opinion but I just don't understand how there is always so much love for his books. I tried reading I think it was the first 9 books from the Discworld and I just found them boring and extremely cringeworthy.
Like I hope you enjoy them and it is great so many people do but I don't get it all.
Don't agree, but different strokes as you imply, different tastes are to be expected. I found the LOTR trilogy to be the absolute most boring and pompous thing I'd ever read and still can't understand why a writer would have dedicated much of his life to typing it out , but I know it's very popular with most people. Art is like that.
Like you say, everyone is different and I know that is an unpopular opinion. I am also 100% with you on LOTR, I struggled with that for hours trying to force it but finally decided that it was just not for me at all. God damn all those songs and poetry were just mind numbing to me!
he took a while to find his footing. going back to the early works after reading the later ones you can appreciate the roots of the tone he eventually settled into. if you're interested in giving it a second go (and i completely get it if not) i'd recommend trying one of the later ones rather than going in release order. i have a real soft spot for small gods, personally, and it's basically completely standalone. same goes for monstrous regiment.
I appreciate people in this community not just blasting me for daring to have a different opinion xD
I did try and read in release order, as I generally try to do for books, maybe I will five those two you mentioned a try because on the face of it it is a setting and an idea that I should like. I just couldn't get into it before.
i just want people to enjoy things, personally. criticizing people's tastes is unproductive.
I friking love Pratchett. But he has very much his own style. As the other commenter, I would gently nudge you towards later books if you want to try, but it’s fine to like different things.
Unrelated: the only reason why I didn’t start in publication order is because as a teen I read them translated and they had only translated the night watch series at the time. So there I went. I still have a soft spot for those books ^^
When I have a space in my reading to fit one in I am going to try out one of the books the previous person replied suggesting to me to see if I like them a bit more.
I'm going to go in with an open mind but I have a rather large back log as well as being very into a long series at the moment so I don't think I will get to them for a while :)
No book is running away ;)
I do very poorly with backlogs. I end up impulse buying and/or borrowing a “fresh” book and postpone the whole pile for a while
I keep acquiring more because I think I want a break from the series I'm deep into but then I start something new and realise I don't want a break at all xD
I burn through many many hours in a week though so a time will come when I can slot one in, it isn't like they are super long books, at least the first few of Discworld weren't.
I think most hobbies have a backlog in some way, shape or form xD