What was the first Discworld book you ever read?

Scarinae

This forum looks pretty dead, so I thought I'd try bringing in a new thread

The first one I ever read was Mort. It probably would have made a lot more sense to sart with The Colour of Magic, but I'm just not a logical person I guess!! Mort made me laugh so much, it's still one of my favourite Discworld books

How about everyone else? What was the first Discworld book you read? What was your first impression of Discworld?

OfflerCrocGod

Hogfather I got it as a x-mas present and I must say it's probably the best present I have ever received I loved it then and I still do must have read it 4 times now it still makes me smile and laugh

Fysh

The Colour of Magic, followed by Sourcery (I think). I'd read about 12 discworld books before I got a copy of The Light Fantastic. I've re-read some of them loads of times, and went through a phase of bending the corner of pages with bits I particularly liked - so the better books had about a quarter of the pages mangled out of shape.

KillBill

I think mine was Eric. Not the best book of Terrys but i really liked his humour so went out and got more books. Read Guards! Guards for the 4th time recently. Vimes and the Watch are the best!

WhiteWashMan

i re-read the first 2 recently and they were kind of cringe worthy

you know where he is going with what he is writing, but you know that he gets there in later books. just not yet. but still some great ideas and jokes.

but anything from Mort onwards i think right up to the last couple i think have been fabulous.
recently re-read the thief of time, and i still think its a cracker.

but i think of my favourites is pyramids. or moving pictures. or....

i cant pick!

Kain

First one i read was The Colour Of Magic, after that i read them in order up until Weird Sisters.
So far my favorite has been Mort.

Evilution

Read Interesting times which was brilliant and then moved onto The Colour of Magic

Bazookatone

My first was "The Last Continent", which, in hindsight, was the worst possible place to start. I didn't know about Ankh Morpork, the Luggage or pretty much anything else.

Oh well............................

BlitzKrieg

Men at arms


saw a play of gaurds gaurds first, couldnt find book so i read men t arms....loved it.

fozzle

Wyrd Sisiters for me, a friend of mine had a whole shelf of them and that was the first one I pulled off it, and I loved it! it's funny, I think the first one you read colours your atttitude to the rest of the series, I've certainly got a soft spot for the witches now.

BlitzKrieg

true...i adore the gaurds. witches was the last series for me to read so i aint the biggest fan

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I saw my mother reading "lords and ladies" when I was younger, and asked if I could read it when she was finished. read them all pretty quickly after that

*Trillian*

Moving Pictures, I read it on holiday & then bought men at arms, the colour of magic & The hogfather in the airport on the way back.

hachidan

Reaper Man was the first I read and was instantly hooked.
My second was Guards Guards and to this day It's still my favorite discworld novel.
unfortunately cant say its my favorite Pratchett book, that honor goes to Good Omens.

DBK

First one I read was Men at Arms I think. I was passing thru forbidden planet when it was on Dawson St. and Terry Pratchet was there signing books, so I bought his new book (Men at Arms) and got it signed. Great idea. Someone I was in college with kept telling me about these books so I thought it was the best time to buy it.

fozzle

You met Terry Pratchett? you're so lucky! Did he wear his hat?

ozt9vdujny3srf

If you give me that signed book I'll do anything you want.

ANYTHING.

EXCEPT get the sunday papers.

ANYTHING.

monkeyfudge

Pyramids is the first one I read. And probably one of the better ones.

I have about 12 of the Discworld books. But I got fed up with them after a while.

I remember enjoying Wyrd Sisters and Guards, Guards! the most.

I met him when he was signing books in Forbidden Planet on Dawson Street too, I thought he came accross as being very anti-social and unfriendly. It's very poor, especially when you see how great Robert Rankin is to meet in person, he'll happily chat away for hours.

(Oh, and I don't believe he was wearing his hat!)

DBK

Callie Stocky Wingspan wrote:

If you give me that signed book I'll do anything you want.

ANYTHING.

EXCEPT get the sunday papers.

ANYTHING.

Damn, and I did really want those Sunday papers...

Haha...nope...not for sale

Yeah, he was just kinda rushing thru the signings and stuff. I don't think he did were a hat, well, not for the signings anyhow. That was a loooooog time ago, probably around '93 I think.

Gaz

Started reading them while travelling last year , started at the beginning with the colour of magic and have been working my way through them, managed to find the first 4 while travelling around India (not easy to do !) Im on to the fifth at the moment , Sourcery, about 40 pages to go.

monkeyfudge

DBK wrote:

Yeah, he was just kinda rushing thru the signings and stuff. I don't think he did were a hat, well, not for the signings anyhow. That was a loooooog time ago, probably around '93 I think.

93 sounds about right. It was Lords and Ladies that was the new book out that he was signing. So whatever year that was.

Goodshape

Mort was first for me and it's still one of my favourites. I think the only one I've read since that equelled that level of enjoyment is Thief of Time.

Reaper Man is great too. Just can't get enough Death.

DBK

monkeyfudge wrote:

93 sounds about right. It was Lords and Ladies that was the new book out that he was signing. So whatever year that was.

Are you sure about Lords and Ladies? As I bought a hardback edition of Men at Arms at the signing, and lords and ladies didn't come out for another year or so after that book.

Edit- Sorry, googled it and it seems that lords and ladies came out BEFORE Men at Arms...man, my memory is crap today. So yeah, maybe you're right.

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Equal Rites.

zenith

I actually got to spend an hour in his company when he was over at some event connected with Trinity 'round about '92, and he's not a funny guy in person, tbh: but he's a fantastic writer on a good day.

He was discussing how he was thinking of having a go at the elves, so that would have been before Lords and Ladies. He was wearing the big black hat then. I read Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic and Mort all about the time Mort came out.

Feenikusu

The Thief of Time, from our library.

4000Holes

Bazookatone wrote:

My first was "The Last Continent", which, in hindsight, was the worst possible place to start. I didn't know about Ankh Morpork, the Luggage or pretty much anything else.

Oh well............................

Me too Loved it though. Even if I didn't have a clue what was going on.

Branoic

If i see a book I like the look of, or someone tells me they read a great book and i should too, i wont just pick it up and read it if it's not the first in the series. Maybe im being anal, especially since Discworld isn't exactly a convential series where book A has to be before book B, which is followed by C for there to be any sense at all. Basically, i have to read things in the "proper" order. So I started about 9 years ago with The Colour of Magic, and just yesterday finished Thief of Time. There's been some fantastic laughs along the way.

Glipmac

First book i read was Colour of magic

Best book is theif of time (Monks of Bong-fut)


Got them all eversince

Just finished reed wee free men Wounerful, gonna get hat full of sky out next

has anyone else read good omens yet

Glipmac :cool:

TKD

Interesting times first and i've been hooked ever since, i think the only one i'm missing in the series is soul music.

anything with Death is a favorite.

RagerX

Started with Gaurds! Gaurds!, and then started from scratch with The Colour of Magic.

Anyone read Strata? You can see where Terry was developing his ideas for the Disc.

GumDropButtons

I think it was The Light Fantastic for me...

My first TP book was Diggers though... I borrowed it from my primary school and it's still around somewhere... God I loved the nomes!

Q_Elexra

The first DISCWORLD book I read was The Truth. I never became adicted to anything so quickly.

La Cucaracha

The colour of magic, it was recommended to me as the first to read. favourite is still small gods though.

BossArky

First was Thief of Time.

Death and Death of Rats are great characters *SQUEAK*

Best one so far was Guards, Guards.

Going Postal was pretty good too. Didn't really get into Pyramids or Hogfather.

maquiladora

The Colour of Magic, and I loved it!

Brow

The colour of magic and havnt looked back since. Bought them in three's and four's after that. My favourite books are the ones involving death so Reaper Man is near the top of my list. Guards, Guards is also one of my stand outs.

scorpy

I picked up Soul Music in the library one day because I thought the cover looked interesting. probably wasn't the best one to start with; I liked it but it was a bit confusing. 'twas better on a recent re-read ^_^ I followed it up with Sourcery a few weeks later and since then I've been hooked.

actually on the subject of book signings, I got a second-hand copy of Men at Arms(so good!) for my birthday and when I opened it I thought to myself 'hey! somebody's written in this!'
then I googled terry pratchett's signature and gaped at my book for a bit. I'm guessing somebody called dave is going to be pissed when he discovers his signed copy has been sold.

Scarinae

GumDropButtons wrote:

My first TP book was Diggers though... I borrowed it from my primary school and it's still around somewhere... God I loved the nomes!

I loved those books! Nobody else seems to have heard of them though (I guess people on a Discworld forum probably would have though) There were three, weren't there? One was called Truckers... Can't remember the third one though

fozzle

Truckers, Diggers and Wings, I read them backwards, Wings first, but still thought they were cool.

Scarinae

When I read them they had me laughing out loud on public transport, I thought they were brilliant!

bozzie

the first book i read was men at arms(got it for cmas bout 7 years ago)followed by al the restup to then inabout 3 months

Caoimhe89

Pyramids... That's the first I read...

I was dealing with insomnia, I'd just finished whatever book I was reading, I was staying at my sister's house, and so her husband turned to me, gave me a walkman with the audio version of The Truth in it, and left me. Didn't help the insomnia (I listened to the whole thing in one sitting) but it did get me hooked on TP. The next day, I read Pyramids, and the rest is history.

The Truth is still my favourite, but I have a soft spot for Pyramids...

Lady Sybil

I read my first Discworld Novel over a friend's shoulder during a bomb scare at school in the min 90's. We were meant to drop everything and get out into the wet and cold, but this guy grabbed the graphic novel of The Light Fantastic. It stopped us from going mad from boredom, but made us mad on the Discworld from then on.

BKtje

Got "The Gods Trilogy" which was an Omnibus of Pyramids, SMall Gods and Hogfather. Small Gods is what really got me into his books tho.
I didnt read any others till i read " The Truth" about a year later and that was followed quickly by others

Shanannigan

the first one i read completely was Mort... i'm a bit of a Discworld nivice though... i'm halfway through the truth at the moment.. and i also read the one about rincewind and the young boy sourcerer, i forget what it was called

Shanannigan

duh.. Sourcery

munky

The Light Fantastic. I got it for my 12th birthday and fell in love with the diskworld...damn thats 8 years ago now!?

Somnus

The Hogfather,love all of them since reading that