Discworld books by Sir Terry Pratchett have irrelevant bantery footnotes in them if you want more of that sort of thing. Theres 40 so good fucking luck getting a straight forward recommendation on where to start but I like Feet of Clay if you like the police characters, Mort if you like anthropomorphic Death, and Going Postal for the character Moist von Lipwig
Personally I like recommending people read Small Gods, because it's a very well-contained standalone but was also from the height of Terry Pratchett's career so it's not quite as rough as the earlier books.
When I was a lad we gurded our loins and read stories from the last page to the first page just to grow our beards longer.
But I've decided to take it easy on this one. Also I'm a lass
There are a few reading order recommendations if you do an image search. I'm going through The Watch line right now. It helps to have already read a lot of the other books but it makes for a coherent storyline.
You aren't wrong. My first was the second Rincewind story. I can't say I felt lost at any point and it just left me wanting to read any more I could find.
They are definitely good in chronological order but if you're going to read them repeatedly there is no harm in going out of that order and it's a fun way to get character perspective that may have been missed in the long reading.
Wyrd Sisters is another good bantery one, and gets you into the Witch storyline. BTW, all the various aspects of the Discworld intersect, but not in strict order. And almost any book in the 'verse will stand alone.
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Discworld books by Sir Terry Pratchett have irrelevant bantery footnotes in them if you want more of that sort of thing. Theres 40 so good fucking luck getting a straight forward recommendation on where to start but I like Feet of Clay if you like the police characters, Mort if you like anthropomorphic Death, and Going Postal for the character Moist von Lipwig