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
Thanks for the very thorough reply! Yeah I realized I ended up with a mishmash but that’s what was at the shop
I put a hold on the first two books of the sub series you mentioned so I’ll wait on those two. I’m certainly looking forward to finding which one hits me the best. I’ve always loved weird, silly, absurd books and with every recommendation I’ve seen given for Pratchett makes me think these would be just right
You ended up with an exceptionally good mishmash.
If you just read the ones you have randomly, you’d still be very well off. Pratchett was very dedicated to having almost all of his stories function as standalone entities. I’d agree with maybe picking up Mort and reading it before Reaper Man, but, you’re going to have a good time regardless and it’s more of a thing where you’ll just have more of the background setup for you coming into the next book.
Like I said, mishmash is OK, you can definitely read most Discworld stuff out of order and not struggle. Pratchett was great at treating every book like it was the reader’s first.
And yeah, weird is definitely his thing. He’s a genuinely phenomenal writer, and if anything I think he’s still kind of under-appreciated.