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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9843551" data-attributes="member: 11760">I disagree about this. While the first two or three novels are definitely weaker than what comes after, especially stuff that was written decades later, it's still as good as the average sci-fi or fantasy novels people read. Pratchett was a solid fiction writer right out of the gate.I'm nearing the end of my complete re-read of the series (and picking up books like The Last Hero which were hard to get the first time I read the series). Although the continuity stuff isn't critical, it lends a lot of texture to, say, Making Money, to know the background of the newspaper folks, all of the stuff about vampires integrating into city life, previously learned info about the golems, previous info about the Assassins Guild and, of course, who Moist is and what the recurring reference to angels is about.A lot of the Discworld discourse I see about "don't do it in chronological order" feels, to me, like people feeling guilty about just liking the Guard (typically) and wanting to justify not wanting to read the other books. The only justification for that is you just want to read the Guard stories. That's fine! Go do that! Sir Terry would 100% be on board with you skipping some of the more four dozen novels if you wanted to.</blockquote>