#(I believe Monstrous Regiment-Thud!-Men At Arms-Jingo-Feet Of Clay-Night Watch-Guards Guards-Fifth Elephant and then Snuff came out)
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My brother had been poking through Guards! Guards! for a couple months, enjoying it well enough, but having little time to read and not totally loving it enough to let the Hyperfocused Reading Skill kick in.
But he went to visit his girlfriend while she’s visiting her parents over winter break, and he mentioned he might want to read Hogfather over it, what books would he need to get to that one? I sent him on the plane with Mort and Reaper Man.
He texted me yesterday having started Mort that day and already being halfway through. He returns with it finished, 50 pages into Reaper Man and having my exact same thing I like least about that book (ie, the wizards are a thematically-important subplot but I read their bits and go “when are we going back to Death?”) but really enjoying it.
Me: Oh, GOOD! We found your subseries. *Squee*
And then when he explained why Mort clicked I went ‘oh that makes perfect sense THESE are the ones you’ll really like next outside the Death series’. So now I’m planning.
(Dad got, on universal recommendations from every Discworld fan who knows him, the Watch books as his starting point.
Dad, reading Guards! Guards! for the first time: “So everyone keeps telling me I remind them of Vimes, and I’ve just been introduced to him passed out drunk and depressed in a gutter? I have some concerns?”
Literally all of us: No no no we mean as he DEVELOPS, trust us, there’s an ARC!)
#discworld#family shenanigans#alcohol#my house generates L-space#I’m not joking Hyperfocused Super-Reading is a shared family skill#(Mom has issues reading fiction these days but did REALLY enjoy watching Good Omens.)#(which was also an experience where I was ‘yes you get the appeal of a favorite book!’ squeeing)#(also I can now make jokes about things metamorphosing into Best of Queen tapes and they’re understood. it’s great. at last.)#the Vimes thing is an extra lol because I read the Watch books in the Most Chaotic Order Possible#like. Reverse order would have been MORE LOGICAL.#(I believe Monstrous Regiment-Thud!-Men At Arms-Jingo-Feet Of Clay-Night Watch-Guards Guards-Fifth Elephant and then Snuff came out)#(or something like that. so sometimes I forget we meet him broken and drunk in a gutter)#(I say my favorites are the Watch and Moist but I do also love Death and Tiffany. and should really reread the Witches.)#(but like my sweet spot is that late-series Tech Stasis Has Broken Ankh-Morpork.)#(where the rage is boiling obvious but so is the love and the hope and the drive.)
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