Beer Leg Book Club - Discworld

> Anyone familiar with Terry Pratchett?
> I just got kind of introduced and don't really know where to start or how to proceed or really if I should.
> I started reading "the truth " and I'm liking it a lot.
> There's like forty books all together, though.
> Advice?
>
> Don

I read a couple of his books years ago. I didn't really get into them. But if I were you I would go chronologically.B-)

Thanks, Stephen, but from what I've determined after googling, etc., this series doesn't seem to work exactly that way.
Chronologically, that is.
There might be lessons buried in the b.s., or maybe not.
It's always fun to look, though.

Don

Don

I read somewhere that there are five or so interconnected "series" in the books that should probably be read chronologically. Of course, I didn't know this until I had read most of them un-chronologically.

Such a shame that Terry Pratchett, the author, has been diagnosed with early onset altheimers.

Is Discworld anything like Ringworld?

> Anyone familiar with Terry Pratchett?

Don - My daughter is a huge fan of Terry Pratchett and has read a great many of his books. She lent me her coveted copy of "Good Omens", his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, and it was one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. I'll probably read it again this summer in anticipation of the alleged movie they are planning on making.

Ringworld is more in the classic science fiction area. Lots of bending or speculating of science advancements from the future. The 'ringworld' is an engineering accomplishment.

Discworld is more in the fantasy realm with magic as opposed to science as an explanation to some of the events. The 'discworld' falls back on cultural myths about the world moving through the universe on the back of a giant turtle (Hindu, Native American, etc..)

Both excellent writers. Niven - more serious tone. Pratchett - a lot of humor.

I would recommend both series of books to anyone interested in sci-fi and fantasy writings. I'll have to see if I can't dig up a copy of Ringworld to read again - it has been decades since I first read it.

> Thanks, Stephen, but from what I've determined after googling, etc., this series doesn't seem to work exactly that way.
> Chronologically, that is.
> There might be lessons buried in the b.s., or maybe not.
> It's always fun to look, though.
>
> Don

from what I remember, I would go by initial publication dates to determine chronology.
and I would separate the different series. I believe he would skip between series depending on what he wanted to write about at any given time.B-)

I sure do miss Heinlein and Asimov.

:-/