– There are some excellent charted character moments for Rincewind. – A book that I coldly described as ‘the most boring of the early installments’, although it does end with a foray into the Dungeon Dimensions. – Shout out to You Bastard, the brilliant mathematician who also happens to be a camel.
– An interesting look at other people and cultures on the Disc aside from Ankh-Morpork, but a plot that is rambly and difficult to follow (at least it was for me). I’ll make a few brief notes on each book to justify the position.Ĥ1. So without further ado, let’s begin the countdown. So each book received a rating out of ten and a position in the charts, and I hope the result is vaguely fair and gives you a good impression of the quality of the books as well as just how gosh darn enjoyable I found them. I wanted to try and take those scores into account, knowing that my own opinions will always be biased. It isn’t the first time it’s been done and I doubt it will be the last, but what makes my countdown different is that it’s partly personal to me, partly based on the scores each book received on a well-known book reading and rating website. My favourites are probably Night Watch, Carpe Jugulum and Small Gods - but I'd hold off on the first two until you've read the earlier Witches and Watch books.Guess who’s back with more Discworld talk? That’s right, it’s me! I’m just not ready to let it go yet, so I’ve spent some time looking back on the series as a whole and trying to put them in some kind of order. I'm a personal fan of recommending reading them in publication order, but I believe you should at last read each sub-series (Witches, Death, Guards etc) in order, so that you can pick up on the character and political development as the series progresses.
For example in Mort did you notice that the Sto Helit family motto "Non Timetus Messor" translates as the rock song title "Don't Fear the Reaper"? and that "Sto Lat" is a Polish drinking song? Terry's work is so densely packed with references, jokes and allusions that it doesn't matter if you miss some on the first read - there will be all the more to pick up on the next read through. I can guarantee that you missed some points and jokes. There's no great overarching plot thread. Terry intended that you could pick up any one and not feel lost.
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