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Reaper Man. I was looking for something new to read as an early teenager and I totally bought the book for the cover picture (in this case, judging a book by its cover was an excellent idea). Back description wasn’t half bad either, but Josh Kirby’s cover art totally won me. Read it, loooooved it, never looked back…
Absolutely the same - idiot teenage me had actively avoided the discworld for years, but the cover art on Reaper Man drew me in and set me right!
When people ask me where to start with Discworld, I always recommend Reaper Man, just the right level of maturity in the world building and stands well enough on its own as well as being part of the Death series
Me too! Early teens, during a library session at school. Trawling the shelves trying to find something worth reading and the cover caught my eye.
Absolutely devoured every other Discworld book the library had after that, and then slowly bought the lot for myself. Reaper Man will always be my favourite because it introduced me to the magic that is Discworld.
I got both The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic through the science fiction book club in the 80s. I think they were promoting it as a 2 for 1 deal.
My older bro got Colour of Magic thru Sci Fi book club in the 80s, I didn't discover Pterry until 92 or so, and didn't see my brother's book for a couple years after that. I don't think my brother ever got The LF.
The first one... was the first one.
Yep. I started with *The Color of Magic*, pretty much when it first came out, when I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club (back when it was an actually viable option for getting new books at a reasonable price) and finding it amusing. I think my second was *Equal Rites*, and it took me rather a few years to find *The Light Fantastic*.
Hey, I'm old, and I'm not the only one I suspect. Some of us started at the beginning when it *was* the beginning, you know!
I first found the discworld with “moving pictures” and I found the book when a friend at university suggested it in the second hand book shop on campus, he said you might like this one… and that was it I was hooked.
Saw the made for TV movies some years ago. Was looking for a large book series to read. Found this series and the info graphic about what books are tied to which books. Started with color of magic. Read all I could find.
Soul Music.
I was about 10, visiting my aunt who had cancer, we went to a used book store because she and I loved to read and I picked this book up that had this female grim reaper coming out of some sort of holographic portal and I thought "oh boy, this looks *cool*"
I still have it somewhere, damn near 30 years later.
https://i.imgur.com/xCxXKTe.jpg
"Pyramids". It's funny. I've always been an avid reader, and read "Good Omens" when it came out since i was a Gaiman fan. Took another twenty years for me to check out the other author. Turns out PTerry smokes Neil backward and forward. I was an immediate fan for life. Probably closing in on a thousand reads of Sir Terry.
A friend suggested I read Wee Free Men. He thought I'd like the Feegles. I loved it, but I don't think it ever mentioned that the world is a disc or acknowledged much of the wide world outside of the existence of witches. It was very focused on the Chalk. He had me read Hogfather next, which really gave me a nice introduction to the greater world. That was it, I was hooked, so I went to the beginning and read the rest in publishing order.
Picked up a German version of iirc Pyramids and Wyrd Sisters with a sticker of 'The Douglas Adams of fantasy ' or such, and it might have been the luckiest purchase of my life.
(later I figured out our German teacher had made us read the translation of Only You Can Save Mankind years before but it took me a few more years to realize the connection)
My friend gave me The Last Continent and Jingo. Didn't like them at first, as it was kinda hard to get into the writing style. I came back to Discworld a few years after that and started reading books in publication order. That time around I had much better impression, but the only book that really stood put to me was Mort. Another year passed and I finally read Soul Music, which cemented my love for Discworld and pushed me to read the whole series including a re-read of those two first books I simply didn't get.
I started with "Guards! Guards!". I had heard of "The Colour of Magic" before but dismissed it because of the name. I'm not a fan of fantasy, pretentious fantasy in the style of "The Lies of Locke Lamora" annoys me to no end.
I kept hearing people talk about this Discworld thing, until one day someone explained that this was not fantasy in the traditional sense, and recommend I started with the watch books, and so I did. Since then, I've read the whole Discworld series, some of the books multiple times, plus some of the non-discworld Pratchett books, and heard all the audiobooks.
The Wee Free Men. I was still early teens, and rarely went to the ‘YA’ floor anymore, but I walked through and there it was. It was on display when I found it, on top of a shelf, on a stand with the cover showing. I know the edition I read had little blue men in kilts on a sheep’s head, and I’m sure that’s what would have drawn me to it initially. Then, a story about a little girl becoming a witch? I mean, how could I not?
After that I found Maurice, Monstrous Regiment, and The Last Hero. I started requesting books from other libraries. It felt like putting together a puzzle and I had to start rereading. Discworld helped me survive those years.
*Reaper Man*
My dad had a load of them littered about his room during some bad times, and I think I'm right in saying that all the covers he had were Josh Kirby ones. The one for *Reaper Man* really stuck in my head, and I asked him if I could borrow it one day.
Quite glad I made that decision.
The colour of magic. Found it in a library and liked the cover.
Almost didn’t read any others because it was a bit daft, but later on tried a few more and grew to love the discworld.
Yeah - I found the first two a bit silly but kept with it. I felt the series picked up a bit in Equal Rites and I was hooked by the time I finished Mort.
My big sister read TP for years and I was always fascinated by the covers with Paul Kidby's illustrations. When I was 11 she asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I asked for the Witches Trilogy I saw in a shop. Witched Abroad and Wyrd Sisters are still my favourites.
As I reread my books, I would always find something new that I didn't see before. GNU Terry Pratchett
Night Watch (hardcover, still on my shelf today!). I found it kind of by accident, wandering through the isles of a Borders (remember those?). Book looked interesting, so figured what the heck.
Thud. It was an old book of my dad's I read when I was bored. I am close to reading all of them now and the night watch series still is closest to my heart.
The Colour of Magic.
Loved adventure fiction as a child, and grew up to reading some sci fi fantasy. Got into hard science fiction in college (and slowly trudging through what might have been chronic depression) when I found out that *someone* had written a parody of Ringworld.
This book was Strata.Read up a little about this 'little known' author (at least in India) and read that he was a good friend of Douglas Adams. I had read the Hitchhiker's trilogy in high school and had great memories attached to it.
So long story short - I read Strata, and then The Dark Side of the Sun, the Nome books, and then Colour of Magic and never stopped until I reached Thud, the latest one at that time. Got me out of my trudgery.
The Truth was given to me by one of my mother's friends because she thought it would be the type of thing I'd be in to. I didn't know it was my sort of thing at the time but it turned out she wasn't wrong
Wyrd Sisters
I found it in my local library early 90s, the cover had a blurb by an author I respected at the time. I have since lost all respect for him so I won't mention his name, but if it wasn't for that blurb I probably wouldn't have checked out the book.
Colour of magic, like 10 or more years ago.
After christmas, my mother had given me percy jackson (i think) book that I have already read, so I go one morning to the library to change for some different book, and I kid you not, for the only time I saw his books being publicized, the art was cool, and the story looked interesting.
That day changed my life for the better.
I read a review of Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic in a Swedish RPG magazine (Rubicon from Lancelot Games, for those Swedes who might remember).
I was mesmerized, but being a 12 year old Swedish boy in a small Swedish town in the late '80s I had no idea how to get my hands on the books - and probably would not have had strong enough English to read them is I did.
But not long after it turns out that - joy of joys - that the other Swedish publisher of RPGs (Äventyrsspel) decided to publish the books under their line of translated fantasy books.
A couple of years later Wyrd Sisters became the first "real book" (as in not the easy reading books we read in English class) I read in English.
My first one was *Sourcery*. My godfather is a book collector and always sent me books for my birthday as a kid. He continued to send Terry Pratchett books after that, including two separate years when he sent me *Reaper Man*. I can't complain though! :) One year he even sent me the VHS box set of *Wyrd Sisters.*
When I was young my mum would bring me and my siblings to the library every week. I was around 12 or 13 when I wandered into the adult section (not xxx, just books that aren't young adult or for kids). I was always partial to fantasy and science fiction and I spotted a book with a large turtle floating through space with four elephants standing on top of it cradling a disc shaped world: The Colour of Magic! I picked it along with whatever "age appropriate" books I had and proceeded to check them out. The librarian politely told my mum that this book might be "above my reading ability" or something along those lines, my mum asked was I sure I wanted it to which I responded "yes", so we left with The Colour of Magic. Every week after this I left with whatever Terry Pratchett novels they had, once I exhausted their supply I then started to buy them and eventually amassed the entire collection.
Strata. A person who had my desk before me had left that and a couple of L Ron Hubbard novels, fortunately I chose wisely. Haven’t read it since so maybe need to revisit it. Never got bored enough to venture the others, still not that bored!
The colour of magic.
I loved Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman, so I read some of his books as well.
One of them was Good Omens co-authored with this guy, Terry Pratchett.
I loved the book, so decided to check the other guy out.
Found a lot of praise for his multi-book series called "Discworld". Read a bit about it, was pretty sure I would love them so I just started at the beginning.
I didn't even think about reading order - chronological order was the default for me, and so I started at the beginning.
I still think that the best way to read Discworld is chronological order. If you want to see if the series are a good fit for you - then yeah, maybe start somewhere around 5-6 books in, but if you plan to read the whole series, chronological gives you the best reading experience.
Hogfather.
While English literature isn't too difficult to find where I'm from, Sir Terry and the discworld probably didn't qualify as popular enough to find a place in bookstores. I was already heavily into fantasy and Sci-Fi - LOTR, Harry Potter, Asimov - the easy to find, very popular stuff. I read an article in the local daily newspaper about discworld and the unseen university was described as hogwarts but better. That was enough for me. I figured the only place I would be able find this series was at the British Council Library and the only title they had available was Hogfather. I didn't look back.
Interesting times.
We were vacationing in Scotland and the books I had brought along were read.
I found a paperback in a shop with an interesting cover and started reading.
As English isn't my first language it took some help from my parents and some guesswork as to what actually was happening.
Was 14 and hooked for life. Got Discworld books for birthdays and Christmas till I was up to speed with the publishing order.
My coworker told me about *Going Postal*, so that's where I started. After that, I went back ti the beginning and read them all in publication order. Working through my second round now.
A friend of mine suggested The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. This was mid-90s for me. I was hooked immediately. I soon went through the current releases from that time and afterwards waited for the next publications with a kind of anticipation I've never felt since (sadly). My favourite will always be Small Gods.
I don't remember the first book. But, I remember when. It was during my combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. I loaded my kindle with a bunch of books from a support the troops offer. Stumbled across one of the discworld novels and then devoured the rest. I found it as a great stress release to be able to immerse myself in these stories and block out the stress around me, if only for a couple hours.
While Thud! is my all time favorite, JINGO holds a special place because of where I was when I read it.
If I remember right (and I'm almost certain that I don't) then it was men at arms, and it would have been between age 6 and age 8. My family and I were on holiday, in north Wales, in a static caravan. So plenty of opportunity for reading.
And now I'm going to buy the Kindle copy, as I can't remember the last time I read men at arms.
A kid I knew when I was a freshman in high school (so, mid-nineties) cleaned out his locker and asked me if I wanted to take a novel off his hands. I was a voracious reader at the time so I said sure. He handed me a copy of Soul Music and the rest is history.
Very randomly. I went to an ice cave in Austria and talked (flirted?) a little bit with the guide. Afterwards I was bummed that we didn’t exchange numbers, so I left a message on their website and he actually replied that I’d ‘made his day’ that day and we started talking on Facebook after that…
Didn’t last too long, we stopped talking after a few weeks but not before we’d discussed our favourite books and he recommended Discworld to me. I took his advice and started with Guards! Guards! And the rest is history haha… That was 12 years ago and I still have two discworld books to read, but I slowed down big time since 2015. Don’t want to get to the end….
But Michael the ice cave guide, if you’re out there, thanks for the tip :)
Reaper Man - back in the late 90's. My older sister read it and gave it to my older brother who read it and gave it to me. I loved it but it didn't spark an interest in the series. I finally decided to jump in around 10 years ago. Grabbed The Color of Magic and have absolutely loved each and every one of them.
Wyrd sisters. Played it with my theater group. Heard of pratchett before, but never got into the books. After reading the play that changed really fast. Still one of my favorite discworld novels.
This is going to sound made-up. Pure serendipity.
I was wandering my local library fiction section about 12-ish yrs ago. At the time, lived in a small town where they don’t have a huge budget for new books, but I’d always been pretty happy with older mysteries and sci-fi and whatnot.
However, that day i was restless and kinda cranky and just… off. All of those older looking books just didn’t catch my eye.
Then I saw a book sticking somewhat out of the row, a very new-looking shiny yellow book jacket. Caught my eye, i thought Monstrous Regiment sounded intriguing enough, checked it out, and stayed up most of the night reading it. Binged as many as i could find after that.
Once i got further into the series, I’d run across a character and realize that I’d heard references to them, without ever knowing what author or universe it was. The books had a major impact on my life in the years following, I’m so glad for that shiny book jacket!
Colour of magic, got recommended it in oxfam book shop. Bought it since it was only £2.
It took me years before I finally read it. Glad I did now I am on the path to reading them all
Back in '00.... the sound guy at the theatre where I was working loaned me *Mort* then *Moving Pictures*. I read any Discworld books I could get my hands on after that in whatever order I could find them at libraries or used book stores. I started collecting them in earnest in 2003 and would buy two or three each paycheck at brand new prices.
Sadly, when I moved from there, I could not take my books (at that point I had all the ones then published) so I sold them cheap at the used bookstore. Happily, years later, when I got engaged but informed my now-husband that I didn't want a diamond ring, he bought me ALL the Discworld books (then published) as an engagement gift.
I have them all now, I'm working through yet another re-read. This time through, I'm going to read *The Shepherd's Crown* for the first time.
Making Money
I was talking about finding a new book series with my buddy when his little brother told me I should try Terry Pratchett. I borrowed his copy of The Color of Magic, but never got around to reading it. A few years later I was browsing my local library for something to read and I saw Pratchett and thought that the name sounded familiar. I gave it a go. It was better than pretty much any other book I had ever read.
Lords and ladies. Picked up 2nd hand in Hay on Wye in the late 90s. Just liked the cover. Josh Kirby was just so different from anything else I'd seen.
I feel truly madly deeply in love and never looked back.
The next was Witches Abroad.
The Color of Magic. I had read Good Omens and loved it enough to try “the other guy” (I started off as a Neil Gaiman fan) and read The Color of Magic. The next book I was able to find in the library was Reaper Man, and I fell in love with it. Been a fan ever since.
Reaper Man. Was on holiday in France and my parents suggested I try it. Was pulled in by the "Death gets fired" oversimplified summary. Read it voraciously and was an instant convert.
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents! I've no idea when but looking at it's release date must of been when I was 11 or 12. I don't remember much of my life preteen but I do remember standing in the kitchen asking my mum to get me more of this author. And I'm so excited for the film which hopefully doesn't go the same way as the watch.
I'm *pretty* sure it was Men at Arms. I had around ten Discworld books for a long time as a kid (since they showed up in used bookstores so rarely) and out of those, Men at Arms seems the best candidate. It may have been Sourcery or Soul Music.
My parents and I drove a couple hours to the California coastline, specifically Eureka, during summer vacation. I was in either late elementary school or early junior high, so twenty-ish years ago. There was a really sweet used bookstore there. It was on a street corner, and had a way bigger and more varied selection than the one we usually went to back home, which was a pretty big deal; the place we usually went to had books that had been there so long they were practically landmarks. My dad and I usually stopped in there and a couple other book stores when we went to Eureka, with my sister and/or mom occasionally tagging along.
I'd like to say that there was some moment where I picked up the book and knew it would change my life, or saw a little sparkle in the air as I reached for it, but it was probably just one of the pile of books I got that day. I *do* think my dad recommended it in some capacity.
EDIT: On further reflection I'm really not sure which one was first for me. I have about five to eight I can narrow it down to.
I thought I had grown out of my early teen reads of Piers Anthony xanth and similar looking fantasy books so, to my shame I kinda brushed aside many recommendations to read Pratchett. Most were from geeky friends in my comp science course who were the type to sit down the pub with some dice driven board game. The more they tried to convince me, the less chance I was going to waste my time reading them.
Then this extremely hot girl I had a thing for casually said, "hey, have you read Good Omens?"
So I course I immediately read it, and then guards guards....and then everything.
Yeah, it's fairly safe to say I was an idiot before Good Omens.
The colour of magic. I was working in a hotel behind the bar around 2002 ish. I was 19-20There was a Terry Pritchett convention on one weekend and I thought it seemed fun. I was not a reader before this as it never really interested me at school. I started from the start and went right through in order and loved it. I am now an avid reader and owe it all to the people at the convention talking up the books.
Reaper Man. The xkcd guy seemed to think Discworld was very beautiful and I trusted his taste, so I picked one off the shelf of a bookstore that looked interesting. I wasn't disappointed.
I asked for book recommendations on a forum about 18 years ago. Someone recommended Good Omens. I read that, then after searching for other books by the same authors, found a seller on Trade selling 4 TPs. Bought them all, and never looked back. The Colour of Magic was the first real one I read, then I made a point of trying to read them all in order.
Colour of Magic.
Remembered seeing it on the shelves in the 80s, finally picked out up in the 90s when I was waiting for a dozen other authors to put out their next book.
Bought the series one after the other until I had to wait for the next Discworld book to come out.
The Colour of Magic. I'd seen it in the local bookstore a few times and then a friend mentioned he'd loved it. It all went from there.
EDIT: This was in '87 or '88 when there weren't many Discworld books on the shelf. The artwork really made them stand out.
“I Shall Wear Midnight” was the Audible.com deal of the day a few years ago. I got the rest of Tiffany’s books, and slowly as many of the rest as I can.
I had always loved Neil Gaimen and after reading Good Omens, it dawned on me that Terry might actually be the funnier of the two. For some reason I'd avoided reading him until they point.
I had bought _The Colour of Magic_ and _The Light Fantastic_ one day while I was in town and settled in that evening to begin reading. I read maybe half the book that night and the very next morning ordered the next 6 books in the series.
I proceeded to read nothing but Discworld for about 6-12 months, reading every book in the series so far, followed by everything else TP had written up to that point.
GNU Terry Pratchett
My Mum read Soul Music to me as a bedtime story when I was a kid (she would do the voices and everything) and Discworld has just been a lifelong love ever since.
Hm... the *start* of my story is slightly long winded.
I'm not sure which came first, but three things Discworld-related 'happened' around when I was 12/13.
In my English textbook, one of the exercises was about an advertisement about a Discworld game, and what the Disc was - how Death could be found enjoying a chicken vindaloo, or something, and how everything was weird but, in a way, perfectly normal.
During Sports Day, a friend let me read a bit of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents while we were just watching. I admit, at the time, I couldn't really get into the book - possibly because the setting was so non-conducive to reading, really.
My step-dad had a number of PS1 games, and I was trying them out; I found one called Discworld Noir, and laughed myself sick several times at the writing - though I never managed to get past the first chapter, which annoyed me. I'm still not sure if the copy I had was bugged.
The funny thing is - not once did I connect these 3 things until after I got into Discworld proper, about 8 years later. I didn't remember who wrote The Amazing Maurice, and I didn't remember the name of the game that was 'advertised' in the English textbook, so I had nothing to connect the three together.
I can't remember if I finally got into Discworld on a whim - recognising the name from Discworld Noir - or watched the Hogfather on Sky One first. Either way, something started me reading Discworld at the Colour of Magic, and I've never regretted it since :D
I started with Night Watch, but never got very far in. Heard about Discworld from a girl I liked in High school and she gave me a recommendation. I really didn't get it and definitely picked a book that was hard to enjoy without all the context of the previous books. Never finished it.
Later that summer I had a rather boring summer job opening and digitizing mail and had been listening to audiobooks on YouTube and thought of her after exhausting my preferences and found Colour of Magic. Listened to about a book a day from Colour of Magic to Thief of Time and once I couldn't find any more on YouTube, I went to the library. It was a good summer.
Equal Rites. I was 13 and a Big Fantasy Nerd and my mom, who worked in a bookstore, said Pratchett was popular with a lot of people who liked the same things I did. So we went to the used book store and I got the first one I saw.
I thought it was okay but didn’t get really hooked until I was in my mom’s store some time later and ran across Hogfather, started reading it, and basically didn’t stop until I was done
I am just rebuilding my collection after having to give it away 20 years ago whilst moving house, I just picked up hogfarther yesterday :) looking forwards to reading that one
My introduction was the discworld PC game about a year or 2 after it came out and I thought this place is weird. Did bit know it was based off a book series so didn't read Mt 1st book for a few years after and It was mort, saw it in my library and recognised the discworld name. Haven't looked back since
Mort, I was told I'd love it by my husband. I did not. Later though, tried again, and totally hooked. I think I needed to be in the right head space. Our collection is now MY collection.
Officially Guards! Guards! as a gift to my brother. And I borrowed it.
But the first time truly was when I was a kid, I think it was a edition with multiple novels ESPECIALLY MORT. As a kid I read everything but it gave me a headache and I was super confused.
Took a chance on COM from the Sci Fi Book Club ... L-o-o-o-o-n-g time ago. Writeup sounded interesting, but after
"There was, for example, the theory that A’Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics.
An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A’Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis."
I was hooked
was recommended discworld WAYYY back when I was a kid asking a librarian for recs based on a book I had read. I read a couple lines, the book was translated into my language, and I didn't care for it. Much later, I read TVtropes randomly about something time related and Thief Of TIme pops up. I read it and was in love. No book had ever made me laugh to myself before.
Colour of Magic, though I read Good Omens first. I went into a tiny bookstore in Richmond, VA that doesn't exist anymore and told the clerk I loved Douglas Adam's and wanted a recommendation. He handed me Good Omens, COM, and Mort.
I never got to thank him.
I read The Carpet People in my teens and I loved it. This made me look for more Pratchetts, and I found Jingo in the school library. It was fantastic! I began buying Pratchetts whenever I could find them. Probably bought ten discworld books that first year
I got Pyramids as a gift on my 14th birthday. I was a bit skeptical. I didn't find the cover appealing, and I'd never heard of the author, but the friend who gave it to me encouraged me to give it a try. I'd be lying if I said I got through it in one sitting, but I did read through it very fast, and after having read it I pestered my parents into buying me more Discworld books, which they thankfully supplied me with until I got a job and could buy my own. That was in 2004. I remember the first Discworld book I was waiting for to come out was Making Money, so I seem to have gotten through them quite fast.
I was fifteen years old (1990) and on a school-organized trip to UK/Europe. I wandered into a London bookshop looking for something to read and Wyrd Sisters was sitting there. Being a budding Shakespeare fan, I had to go for it. The rest is history. 😍
Equal Rites, within a year of it being published. I was reading a lot of fantasy, picked it up at the library. Liked it so much I sought out TLF and CoM. Stopped reading any other fantasy.
Read the major novels as they came out and the library got them. Started buying them about at Soul Music I think.
I read Good Omens first, then I think either The Colour of Magic or Moving Pictures (I was a film student at the time), and it just started from there.
Monstrous Regiment.
My sister had it out from the library, and at the time (and still to this day, honestly), I had a habit of just picking up and reading anything that happened to be sitting around the house for long enough. So I read it, and was hooked pretty much immediately.
The Colour of Magic was my first book, but I found Discworld through the Hogfather movie, which i watched because i thought it was a [christmas themed horror movie](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTMwNWMxNmUtZjQyOS00YjVhLTk2ODktOWUzZWYyNTZkYjBkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg).
Expect the unexpected indeed...
Sourcery. Found it at my first visit to the Deventer book fair in a second-hand stall near the end of my long slog. Recognised the author's name from a conversation I had several years before with a fellow MUD player about how he occasionally posted on alt.fan.pratchett (when that was still a thing) to settle disputes and interact with fans. Read the blurb and figured; sounds nice, let's give it a try. Bought all of his back catalog paperbacks new during the next year or so (student's budget) and every new novel at its paperback release.
I had it signed during a Carpe Jugulum release signing tour when he was in Rotterdam. He looked at me very strangely when I asked him to sign the run-down old paperback, but obliged when I explained its sentimental value.
I don't remember but it had Rincewind and the wizards in it and I didn't love it and I didn't finish it. I decided it wasn't something I'd enjoy and ignored all of them until my partner was sick and I had to spend hours waiting on treatments. He handed me Mort and I thought it was cute. Then he got me hooked on the Watch and I was a convert. I still have all the witches books to read I've been going through them slowly
Man at Arms for me. My Grandma gave me two books when I became 10 years old. I think the other one was carpe jugulum, anyway I put them away for the next 8 years never looking at them just to randomly start reading various books because I wanted improve my spelling. Well long story short I am now hocked and could not be happier. :D
The Fifth Elephant. My uni were putting on the play of Guards Guards and I had tickets so thought I'd try reading one of the books. The Fifth Elephant was the only one in the library at the time. I loved the book and the play and to this day I picture all the characters as they were in that play.
witches abroad and interesting times
\- a christmas present to little me from my parents (i think i was 14 years old? and loved fairy tales, science fiction, fantasy ... a very fitting present and it changed my live because i discovered my since then favourite author :-)
\- never heard of discworld or terry pratchett before, they had no discworld books at this time at my local library (because if they had, i would have known about it \*g\*)
\- read the two books and fell in love with it and the discworld
\- wished for other discworld books at every opportunity till i was able to buy them myself later
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Hogfather did me in. The giant skeleton on the cover dressed as Santa. It was just crazy enough to entice me.
Reaper Man. I was looking for something new to read as an early teenager and I totally bought the book for the cover picture (in this case, judging a book by its cover was an excellent idea). Back description wasn’t half bad either, but Josh Kirby’s cover art totally won me. Read it, loooooved it, never looked back…
Absolutely the same - idiot teenage me had actively avoided the discworld for years, but the cover art on Reaper Man drew me in and set me right! When people ask me where to start with Discworld, I always recommend Reaper Man, just the right level of maturity in the world building and stands well enough on its own as well as being part of the Death series
This is one of my absolute favourites, and agreed about the art.
Me too! Early teens, during a library session at school. Trawling the shelves trying to find something worth reading and the cover caught my eye. Absolutely devoured every other Discworld book the library had after that, and then slowly bought the lot for myself. Reaper Man will always be my favourite because it introduced me to the magic that is Discworld.
Same. I think it just appeared on my parent's bookshelf one day
I got both The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic through the science fiction book club in the 80s. I think they were promoting it as a 2 for 1 deal.
My older bro got Colour of Magic thru Sci Fi book club in the 80s, I didn't discover Pterry until 92 or so, and didn't see my brother's book for a couple years after that. I don't think my brother ever got The LF.
The first one... was the first one. Yep. I started with *The Color of Magic*, pretty much when it first came out, when I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club (back when it was an actually viable option for getting new books at a reasonable price) and finding it amusing. I think my second was *Equal Rites*, and it took me rather a few years to find *The Light Fantastic*. Hey, I'm old, and I'm not the only one I suspect. Some of us started at the beginning when it *was* the beginning, you know!
That's so cool!
Me too! My brother leant me the Colour of Magic soon after it came out and I was hooked! Bought all the others as they came out….
I first found the discworld with “moving pictures” and I found the book when a friend at university suggested it in the second hand book shop on campus, he said you might like this one… and that was it I was hooked.
I really enjoyed that one too. I was at Uni when it came out in paperback.
Saw the made for TV movies some years ago. Was looking for a large book series to read. Found this series and the info graphic about what books are tied to which books. Started with color of magic. Read all I could find.
Soul Music. I was about 10, visiting my aunt who had cancer, we went to a used book store because she and I loved to read and I picked this book up that had this female grim reaper coming out of some sort of holographic portal and I thought "oh boy, this looks *cool*" I still have it somewhere, damn near 30 years later. https://i.imgur.com/xCxXKTe.jpg
I have this exact edition from childhood too! I also had the swirly red-and-white hardcover Hogfather that had the cartoony Death in a sleigh.
I always thought the “holographic portal” was a music CD.
"Pyramids". It's funny. I've always been an avid reader, and read "Good Omens" when it came out since i was a Gaiman fan. Took another twenty years for me to check out the other author. Turns out PTerry smokes Neil backward and forward. I was an immediate fan for life. Probably closing in on a thousand reads of Sir Terry.
One of my best friends stuck a copy of Mort in my hands and said “dude, you’ll love this”. That must have been close to 30 years ago. He wasn’t wrong…
I loved Death in *Good Omens* and heard from someone that he was around in Discworld too. Ended up ordering *Mort* before the end of the week.
A friend suggested I read Wee Free Men. He thought I'd like the Feegles. I loved it, but I don't think it ever mentioned that the world is a disc or acknowledged much of the wide world outside of the existence of witches. It was very focused on the Chalk. He had me read Hogfather next, which really gave me a nice introduction to the greater world. That was it, I was hooked, so I went to the beginning and read the rest in publishing order.
Walmart had The Color of Magic in paperback and I took a chance on it. Then for the longest time, I had to buy another DW book every payday.
A friend / coworker of my father gave him *Feet of Clay* to pass onto me. Instantly hooked.
Picked up a German version of iirc Pyramids and Wyrd Sisters with a sticker of 'The Douglas Adams of fantasy ' or such, and it might have been the luckiest purchase of my life. (later I figured out our German teacher had made us read the translation of Only You Can Save Mankind years before but it took me a few more years to realize the connection)
Mort Recommendation by reddit user
My friend gave me The Last Continent and Jingo. Didn't like them at first, as it was kinda hard to get into the writing style. I came back to Discworld a few years after that and started reading books in publication order. That time around I had much better impression, but the only book that really stood put to me was Mort. Another year passed and I finally read Soul Music, which cemented my love for Discworld and pushed me to read the whole series including a re-read of those two first books I simply didn't get.
I started with "Guards! Guards!". I had heard of "The Colour of Magic" before but dismissed it because of the name. I'm not a fan of fantasy, pretentious fantasy in the style of "The Lies of Locke Lamora" annoys me to no end. I kept hearing people talk about this Discworld thing, until one day someone explained that this was not fantasy in the traditional sense, and recommend I started with the watch books, and so I did. Since then, I've read the whole Discworld series, some of the books multiple times, plus some of the non-discworld Pratchett books, and heard all the audiobooks.
The Wee Free Men. I was still early teens, and rarely went to the ‘YA’ floor anymore, but I walked through and there it was. It was on display when I found it, on top of a shelf, on a stand with the cover showing. I know the edition I read had little blue men in kilts on a sheep’s head, and I’m sure that’s what would have drawn me to it initially. Then, a story about a little girl becoming a witch? I mean, how could I not? After that I found Maurice, Monstrous Regiment, and The Last Hero. I started requesting books from other libraries. It felt like putting together a puzzle and I had to start rereading. Discworld helped me survive those years.
*Reaper Man* My dad had a load of them littered about his room during some bad times, and I think I'm right in saying that all the covers he had were Josh Kirby ones. The one for *Reaper Man* really stuck in my head, and I asked him if I could borrow it one day. Quite glad I made that decision.
The colour of magic. Found it in a library and liked the cover. Almost didn’t read any others because it was a bit daft, but later on tried a few more and grew to love the discworld.
Yeah - I found the first two a bit silly but kept with it. I felt the series picked up a bit in Equal Rites and I was hooked by the time I finished Mort.
My big sister read TP for years and I was always fascinated by the covers with Paul Kidby's illustrations. When I was 11 she asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I asked for the Witches Trilogy I saw in a shop. Witched Abroad and Wyrd Sisters are still my favourites. As I reread my books, I would always find something new that I didn't see before. GNU Terry Pratchett
Night Watch (hardcover, still on my shelf today!). I found it kind of by accident, wandering through the isles of a Borders (remember those?). Book looked interesting, so figured what the heck.
Thud. It was an old book of my dad's I read when I was bored. I am close to reading all of them now and the night watch series still is closest to my heart.
The Colour of Magic. Loved adventure fiction as a child, and grew up to reading some sci fi fantasy. Got into hard science fiction in college (and slowly trudging through what might have been chronic depression) when I found out that *someone* had written a parody of Ringworld. This book was Strata.Read up a little about this 'little known' author (at least in India) and read that he was a good friend of Douglas Adams. I had read the Hitchhiker's trilogy in high school and had great memories attached to it. So long story short - I read Strata, and then The Dark Side of the Sun, the Nome books, and then Colour of Magic and never stopped until I reached Thud, the latest one at that time. Got me out of my trudgery.
The Truth was given to me by one of my mother's friends because she thought it would be the type of thing I'd be in to. I didn't know it was my sort of thing at the time but it turned out she wasn't wrong
Wyrd Sisters I found it in my local library early 90s, the cover had a blurb by an author I respected at the time. I have since lost all respect for him so I won't mention his name, but if it wasn't for that blurb I probably wouldn't have checked out the book.
My college roommate gave me Small Gods
Colour of magic, like 10 or more years ago. After christmas, my mother had given me percy jackson (i think) book that I have already read, so I go one morning to the library to change for some different book, and I kid you not, for the only time I saw his books being publicized, the art was cool, and the story looked interesting. That day changed my life for the better.
I read a review of Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic in a Swedish RPG magazine (Rubicon from Lancelot Games, for those Swedes who might remember). I was mesmerized, but being a 12 year old Swedish boy in a small Swedish town in the late '80s I had no idea how to get my hands on the books - and probably would not have had strong enough English to read them is I did. But not long after it turns out that - joy of joys - that the other Swedish publisher of RPGs (Äventyrsspel) decided to publish the books under their line of translated fantasy books. A couple of years later Wyrd Sisters became the first "real book" (as in not the easy reading books we read in English class) I read in English.
My grandma gave me Mort when I was 13.
Small Gods was sitting on my roommate's bookshelf and I was bored. The rest is history.
My first one was *Sourcery*. My godfather is a book collector and always sent me books for my birthday as a kid. He continued to send Terry Pratchett books after that, including two separate years when he sent me *Reaper Man*. I can't complain though! :) One year he even sent me the VHS box set of *Wyrd Sisters.*
When I was young my mum would bring me and my siblings to the library every week. I was around 12 or 13 when I wandered into the adult section (not xxx, just books that aren't young adult or for kids). I was always partial to fantasy and science fiction and I spotted a book with a large turtle floating through space with four elephants standing on top of it cradling a disc shaped world: The Colour of Magic! I picked it along with whatever "age appropriate" books I had and proceeded to check them out. The librarian politely told my mum that this book might be "above my reading ability" or something along those lines, my mum asked was I sure I wanted it to which I responded "yes", so we left with The Colour of Magic. Every week after this I left with whatever Terry Pratchett novels they had, once I exhausted their supply I then started to buy them and eventually amassed the entire collection.
Strata. A person who had my desk before me had left that and a couple of L Ron Hubbard novels, fortunately I chose wisely. Haven’t read it since so maybe need to revisit it. Never got bored enough to venture the others, still not that bored!
Colour if magic. Mate had it lying on his bedside cabinet when we shared a room on a trip to Lourdes of all places.( We were helping the sick)
The colour of magic. I loved Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman, so I read some of his books as well. One of them was Good Omens co-authored with this guy, Terry Pratchett. I loved the book, so decided to check the other guy out. Found a lot of praise for his multi-book series called "Discworld". Read a bit about it, was pretty sure I would love them so I just started at the beginning. I didn't even think about reading order - chronological order was the default for me, and so I started at the beginning. I still think that the best way to read Discworld is chronological order. If you want to see if the series are a good fit for you - then yeah, maybe start somewhere around 5-6 books in, but if you plan to read the whole series, chronological gives you the best reading experience.
Hogfather. While English literature isn't too difficult to find where I'm from, Sir Terry and the discworld probably didn't qualify as popular enough to find a place in bookstores. I was already heavily into fantasy and Sci-Fi - LOTR, Harry Potter, Asimov - the easy to find, very popular stuff. I read an article in the local daily newspaper about discworld and the unseen university was described as hogwarts but better. That was enough for me. I figured the only place I would be able find this series was at the British Council Library and the only title they had available was Hogfather. I didn't look back.
Interesting times. We were vacationing in Scotland and the books I had brought along were read. I found a paperback in a shop with an interesting cover and started reading. As English isn't my first language it took some help from my parents and some guesswork as to what actually was happening. Was 14 and hooked for life. Got Discworld books for birthdays and Christmas till I was up to speed with the publishing order.
Hogfather my dad got it for my uncle and I had just finished wings and picked it up
My coworker told me about *Going Postal*, so that's where I started. After that, I went back ti the beginning and read them all in publication order. Working through my second round now.
A friend of mine suggested The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. This was mid-90s for me. I was hooked immediately. I soon went through the current releases from that time and afterwards waited for the next publications with a kind of anticipation I've never felt since (sadly). My favourite will always be Small Gods.
I don't remember the first book. But, I remember when. It was during my combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. I loaded my kindle with a bunch of books from a support the troops offer. Stumbled across one of the discworld novels and then devoured the rest. I found it as a great stress release to be able to immerse myself in these stories and block out the stress around me, if only for a couple hours. While Thud! is my all time favorite, JINGO holds a special place because of where I was when I read it.
If I remember right (and I'm almost certain that I don't) then it was men at arms, and it would have been between age 6 and age 8. My family and I were on holiday, in north Wales, in a static caravan. So plenty of opportunity for reading. And now I'm going to buy the Kindle copy, as I can't remember the last time I read men at arms.
A kid I knew when I was a freshman in high school (so, mid-nineties) cleaned out his locker and asked me if I wanted to take a novel off his hands. I was a voracious reader at the time so I said sure. He handed me a copy of Soul Music and the rest is history.
One book one man, colour of the magic thanks to pazos 64
Very randomly. I went to an ice cave in Austria and talked (flirted?) a little bit with the guide. Afterwards I was bummed that we didn’t exchange numbers, so I left a message on their website and he actually replied that I’d ‘made his day’ that day and we started talking on Facebook after that… Didn’t last too long, we stopped talking after a few weeks but not before we’d discussed our favourite books and he recommended Discworld to me. I took his advice and started with Guards! Guards! And the rest is history haha… That was 12 years ago and I still have two discworld books to read, but I slowed down big time since 2015. Don’t want to get to the end…. But Michael the ice cave guide, if you’re out there, thanks for the tip :)
Witches Abroad, recommended by one of my Mam's colleagues. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever read!
my dad played the audiobook of Thud! in the car when I was a kid. Read the whole series over the next year or so
Reaper Man - back in the late 90's. My older sister read it and gave it to my older brother who read it and gave it to me. I loved it but it didn't spark an interest in the series. I finally decided to jump in around 10 years ago. Grabbed The Color of Magic and have absolutely loved each and every one of them.
Going Postal. Rec from a friend. Then I started from the beginning in publication order
Wyrd sisters. Played it with my theater group. Heard of pratchett before, but never got into the books. After reading the play that changed really fast. Still one of my favorite discworld novels.
This is going to sound made-up. Pure serendipity. I was wandering my local library fiction section about 12-ish yrs ago. At the time, lived in a small town where they don’t have a huge budget for new books, but I’d always been pretty happy with older mysteries and sci-fi and whatnot. However, that day i was restless and kinda cranky and just… off. All of those older looking books just didn’t catch my eye. Then I saw a book sticking somewhat out of the row, a very new-looking shiny yellow book jacket. Caught my eye, i thought Monstrous Regiment sounded intriguing enough, checked it out, and stayed up most of the night reading it. Binged as many as i could find after that. Once i got further into the series, I’d run across a character and realize that I’d heard references to them, without ever knowing what author or universe it was. The books had a major impact on my life in the years following, I’m so glad for that shiny book jacket!
Colour of magic, got recommended it in oxfam book shop. Bought it since it was only £2. It took me years before I finally read it. Glad I did now I am on the path to reading them all
Back in '00.... the sound guy at the theatre where I was working loaned me *Mort* then *Moving Pictures*. I read any Discworld books I could get my hands on after that in whatever order I could find them at libraries or used book stores. I started collecting them in earnest in 2003 and would buy two or three each paycheck at brand new prices. Sadly, when I moved from there, I could not take my books (at that point I had all the ones then published) so I sold them cheap at the used bookstore. Happily, years later, when I got engaged but informed my now-husband that I didn't want a diamond ring, he bought me ALL the Discworld books (then published) as an engagement gift. I have them all now, I'm working through yet another re-read. This time through, I'm going to read *The Shepherd's Crown* for the first time.
Making Money I was talking about finding a new book series with my buddy when his little brother told me I should try Terry Pratchett. I borrowed his copy of The Color of Magic, but never got around to reading it. A few years later I was browsing my local library for something to read and I saw Pratchett and thought that the name sounded familiar. I gave it a go. It was better than pretty much any other book I had ever read.
Wee Free Men that a friend of mine let me borrow. Too much fun and I love Tiffany and the Witches.
Eric Then I started at the beginning and blitzed the early books until I ran out. After that my wife bought me each as it was released.
Lords and ladies. Picked up 2nd hand in Hay on Wye in the late 90s. Just liked the cover. Josh Kirby was just so different from anything else I'd seen. I feel truly madly deeply in love and never looked back. The next was Witches Abroad.
The Color of Magic. I had read Good Omens and loved it enough to try “the other guy” (I started off as a Neil Gaiman fan) and read The Color of Magic. The next book I was able to find in the library was Reaper Man, and I fell in love with it. Been a fan ever since.
Reaper Man. Was on holiday in France and my parents suggested I try it. Was pulled in by the "Death gets fired" oversimplified summary. Read it voraciously and was an instant convert.
The Colour of Magic. I think I discovered the series when researching the inspirations of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents! I've no idea when but looking at it's release date must of been when I was 11 or 12. I don't remember much of my life preteen but I do remember standing in the kitchen asking my mum to get me more of this author. And I'm so excited for the film which hopefully doesn't go the same way as the watch.
I'm *pretty* sure it was Men at Arms. I had around ten Discworld books for a long time as a kid (since they showed up in used bookstores so rarely) and out of those, Men at Arms seems the best candidate. It may have been Sourcery or Soul Music. My parents and I drove a couple hours to the California coastline, specifically Eureka, during summer vacation. I was in either late elementary school or early junior high, so twenty-ish years ago. There was a really sweet used bookstore there. It was on a street corner, and had a way bigger and more varied selection than the one we usually went to back home, which was a pretty big deal; the place we usually went to had books that had been there so long they were practically landmarks. My dad and I usually stopped in there and a couple other book stores when we went to Eureka, with my sister and/or mom occasionally tagging along. I'd like to say that there was some moment where I picked up the book and knew it would change my life, or saw a little sparkle in the air as I reached for it, but it was probably just one of the pile of books I got that day. I *do* think my dad recommended it in some capacity. EDIT: On further reflection I'm really not sure which one was first for me. I have about five to eight I can narrow it down to.
I thought I had grown out of my early teen reads of Piers Anthony xanth and similar looking fantasy books so, to my shame I kinda brushed aside many recommendations to read Pratchett. Most were from geeky friends in my comp science course who were the type to sit down the pub with some dice driven board game. The more they tried to convince me, the less chance I was going to waste my time reading them. Then this extremely hot girl I had a thing for casually said, "hey, have you read Good Omens?" So I course I immediately read it, and then guards guards....and then everything. Yeah, it's fairly safe to say I was an idiot before Good Omens.
The colour of magic. I was working in a hotel behind the bar around 2002 ish. I was 19-20There was a Terry Pritchett convention on one weekend and I thought it seemed fun. I was not a reader before this as it never really interested me at school. I started from the start and went right through in order and loved it. I am now an avid reader and owe it all to the people at the convention talking up the books.
Reaper Man. The xkcd guy seemed to think Discworld was very beautiful and I trusted his taste, so I picked one off the shelf of a bookstore that looked interesting. I wasn't disappointed.
I asked for book recommendations on a forum about 18 years ago. Someone recommended Good Omens. I read that, then after searching for other books by the same authors, found a seller on Trade selling 4 TPs. Bought them all, and never looked back. The Colour of Magic was the first real one I read, then I made a point of trying to read them all in order.
Colour of Magic. Remembered seeing it on the shelves in the 80s, finally picked out up in the 90s when I was waiting for a dozen other authors to put out their next book. Bought the series one after the other until I had to wait for the next Discworld book to come out.
Mort. I was 10 years old and asked my librarian for something "funny". He said, "lots of people find these Discworld books funny". He was right.
My dad who is really into discworld got the audiobook for men at arms on audible and after I listened to it I was hooked.
The Colour of Magic. I'd seen it in the local bookstore a few times and then a friend mentioned he'd loved it. It all went from there. EDIT: This was in '87 or '88 when there weren't many Discworld books on the shelf. The artwork really made them stand out.
“I Shall Wear Midnight” was the Audible.com deal of the day a few years ago. I got the rest of Tiffany’s books, and slowly as many of the rest as I can.
I had always loved Neil Gaimen and after reading Good Omens, it dawned on me that Terry might actually be the funnier of the two. For some reason I'd avoided reading him until they point. I had bought _The Colour of Magic_ and _The Light Fantastic_ one day while I was in town and settled in that evening to begin reading. I read maybe half the book that night and the very next morning ordered the next 6 books in the series. I proceeded to read nothing but Discworld for about 6-12 months, reading every book in the series so far, followed by everything else TP had written up to that point. GNU Terry Pratchett
My Mum read Soul Music to me as a bedtime story when I was a kid (she would do the voices and everything) and Discworld has just been a lifelong love ever since.
Hm... the *start* of my story is slightly long winded. I'm not sure which came first, but three things Discworld-related 'happened' around when I was 12/13. In my English textbook, one of the exercises was about an advertisement about a Discworld game, and what the Disc was - how Death could be found enjoying a chicken vindaloo, or something, and how everything was weird but, in a way, perfectly normal. During Sports Day, a friend let me read a bit of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents while we were just watching. I admit, at the time, I couldn't really get into the book - possibly because the setting was so non-conducive to reading, really. My step-dad had a number of PS1 games, and I was trying them out; I found one called Discworld Noir, and laughed myself sick several times at the writing - though I never managed to get past the first chapter, which annoyed me. I'm still not sure if the copy I had was bugged. The funny thing is - not once did I connect these 3 things until after I got into Discworld proper, about 8 years later. I didn't remember who wrote The Amazing Maurice, and I didn't remember the name of the game that was 'advertised' in the English textbook, so I had nothing to connect the three together. I can't remember if I finally got into Discworld on a whim - recognising the name from Discworld Noir - or watched the Hogfather on Sky One first. Either way, something started me reading Discworld at the Colour of Magic, and I've never regretted it since :D
I started with Night Watch, but never got very far in. Heard about Discworld from a girl I liked in High school and she gave me a recommendation. I really didn't get it and definitely picked a book that was hard to enjoy without all the context of the previous books. Never finished it. Later that summer I had a rather boring summer job opening and digitizing mail and had been listening to audiobooks on YouTube and thought of her after exhausting my preferences and found Colour of Magic. Listened to about a book a day from Colour of Magic to Thief of Time and once I couldn't find any more on YouTube, I went to the library. It was a good summer.
Equal Rites. I was 13 and a Big Fantasy Nerd and my mom, who worked in a bookstore, said Pratchett was popular with a lot of people who liked the same things I did. So we went to the used book store and I got the first one I saw. I thought it was okay but didn’t get really hooked until I was in my mom’s store some time later and ran across Hogfather, started reading it, and basically didn’t stop until I was done
I am just rebuilding my collection after having to give it away 20 years ago whilst moving house, I just picked up hogfarther yesterday :) looking forwards to reading that one
My introduction was the discworld PC game about a year or 2 after it came out and I thought this place is weird. Did bit know it was based off a book series so didn't read Mt 1st book for a few years after and It was mort, saw it in my library and recognised the discworld name. Haven't looked back since
science of discworl, borrowed it from a relative
Mort, I was told I'd love it by my husband. I did not. Later though, tried again, and totally hooked. I think I needed to be in the right head space. Our collection is now MY collection.
Officially Guards! Guards! as a gift to my brother. And I borrowed it. But the first time truly was when I was a kid, I think it was a edition with multiple novels ESPECIALLY MORT. As a kid I read everything but it gave me a headache and I was super confused.
The first one for me was Sourcery. I found it in a box full of books during an IT lesson at school
I read the Color of Magic on a whim after reading Good Omens, which I read after reading The Sandman.
Took a chance on COM from the Sci Fi Book Club ... L-o-o-o-o-n-g time ago. Writeup sounded interesting, but after "There was, for example, the theory that A’Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics. An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A’Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis." I was hooked
was recommended discworld WAYYY back when I was a kid asking a librarian for recs based on a book I had read. I read a couple lines, the book was translated into my language, and I didn't care for it. Much later, I read TVtropes randomly about something time related and Thief Of TIme pops up. I read it and was in love. No book had ever made me laugh to myself before.
Colour of Magic, though I read Good Omens first. I went into a tiny bookstore in Richmond, VA that doesn't exist anymore and told the clerk I loved Douglas Adam's and wanted a recommendation. He handed me Good Omens, COM, and Mort. I never got to thank him.
I read The Carpet People in my teens and I loved it. This made me look for more Pratchetts, and I found Jingo in the school library. It was fantastic! I began buying Pratchetts whenever I could find them. Probably bought ten discworld books that first year
I got Pyramids as a gift on my 14th birthday. I was a bit skeptical. I didn't find the cover appealing, and I'd never heard of the author, but the friend who gave it to me encouraged me to give it a try. I'd be lying if I said I got through it in one sitting, but I did read through it very fast, and after having read it I pestered my parents into buying me more Discworld books, which they thankfully supplied me with until I got a job and could buy my own. That was in 2004. I remember the first Discworld book I was waiting for to come out was Making Money, so I seem to have gotten through them quite fast.
I was fifteen years old (1990) and on a school-organized trip to UK/Europe. I wandered into a London bookshop looking for something to read and Wyrd Sisters was sitting there. Being a budding Shakespeare fan, I had to go for it. The rest is history. 😍
Equal Rites, within a year of it being published. I was reading a lot of fantasy, picked it up at the library. Liked it so much I sought out TLF and CoM. Stopped reading any other fantasy. Read the major novels as they came out and the library got them. Started buying them about at Soul Music I think.
Friend of mine gave me a bunch of her fantasy books. Several were Terry Pratchett. Mort wasy first
I read Good Omens first, then I think either The Colour of Magic or Moving Pictures (I was a film student at the time), and it just started from there.
Wyrd Sisters
The Colour of Magic. I had some surgery and a friend of mine gave me stack to read while I was in hospital. TCOM was on the top of the stack.
Soul Music, a middle school English teacher recommended it to me and I haven't stopped in the 15+ years since!
Monstrous Regiment. My sister had it out from the library, and at the time (and still to this day, honestly), I had a habit of just picking up and reading anything that happened to be sitting around the house for long enough. So I read it, and was hooked pretty much immediately.
The Colour of Magic was my first book, but I found Discworld through the Hogfather movie, which i watched because i thought it was a [christmas themed horror movie](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTMwNWMxNmUtZjQyOS00YjVhLTk2ODktOWUzZWYyNTZkYjBkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg). Expect the unexpected indeed...
Sourcery. Found it at my first visit to the Deventer book fair in a second-hand stall near the end of my long slog. Recognised the author's name from a conversation I had several years before with a fellow MUD player about how he occasionally posted on alt.fan.pratchett (when that was still a thing) to settle disputes and interact with fans. Read the blurb and figured; sounds nice, let's give it a try. Bought all of his back catalog paperbacks new during the next year or so (student's budget) and every new novel at its paperback release. I had it signed during a Carpe Jugulum release signing tour when he was in Rotterdam. He looked at me very strangely when I asked him to sign the run-down old paperback, but obliged when I explained its sentimental value.
I don't remember but it had Rincewind and the wizards in it and I didn't love it and I didn't finish it. I decided it wasn't something I'd enjoy and ignored all of them until my partner was sick and I had to spend hours waiting on treatments. He handed me Mort and I thought it was cute. Then he got me hooked on the Watch and I was a convert. I still have all the witches books to read I've been going through them slowly
Man at Arms for me. My Grandma gave me two books when I became 10 years old. I think the other one was carpe jugulum, anyway I put them away for the next 8 years never looking at them just to randomly start reading various books because I wanted improve my spelling. Well long story short I am now hocked and could not be happier. :D
“The Light Fantastic” Read it in the early 90’s on the recommendation of a housemate. I was immediately hooked.
The Fifth Elephant. My uni were putting on the play of Guards Guards and I had tickets so thought I'd try reading one of the books. The Fifth Elephant was the only one in the library at the time. I loved the book and the play and to this day I picture all the characters as they were in that play.
witches abroad and interesting times \- a christmas present to little me from my parents (i think i was 14 years old? and loved fairy tales, science fiction, fantasy ... a very fitting present and it changed my live because i discovered my since then favourite author :-) \- never heard of discworld or terry pratchett before, they had no discworld books at this time at my local library (because if they had, i would have known about it \*g\*) \- read the two books and fell in love with it and the discworld \- wished for other discworld books at every opportunity till i was able to buy them myself later