2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

I started reading the entire Discworld series last year in chronological published order, but I took a break from that in January because I wanted to participate in this challenge! However, I saw an opportunity here in Week 8 to jump back into Discworld with book #22 and catch up with Rincewind and the Wizards.

It'll be more than a little bittersweet to read this so soon after Terry Pratchett's passing, but as he once put it so well:

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

I read one of the Pratchett's books this weekend (I decided to double my fav author week), I had to catch up some of his later (darker) works and I think it's a nice tribute.

Maybe I'll do a full re-read this year but not a chronological one. I bought and read the books according to the releases so it could be interesting to group them by characters.

It took me soooo many years to get into Discworld because I just didn't know where to start with a series that was so huge and I kept getting conflicting advice from people to just read the books about Death or the books about the Watch, etc...

I finally decided to just read them as they were published, and I don't regret it at all. It's been super interesting to see his writing evolve over the years. That said, I think that if I were to do a re-read that I'd do it as you said and tackle them group by group and then maybe read the odd ones like Small Gods here and there. It would be a different reading experience!

There's this really nice map to read out of order:
http://electricliterature.com/infogra...

I started Discworld with... the videogame booklet :D It was written by Pratchett and I found it really funny with the bottom notes. I jumped on the novels, but they were less numerous than now of course, so it had to be in order.

I like the witches and death books better. Tiffany Aching are great too, but not published as Discworld novels in France so it's easier to read them separately. There are many different topics so I can see why people can recommend some series more than others :)