Hi,

I've read a lot of TP's books and still love them. Now that he has kicked the proverbial bucket his books are "collector's items" and cost a packet so I would recommend buying them and re-selling them to the highest bidder, rather than donating them to a charity shop, unless you auction them off and donate the profits to the charity shop.

I have no intention of selling our collection, which takes up over two shelves of a rather large bookcase. Hubby and I both love his books, his twisted/warped view of the (Disc)world, and all the characters and plots he has invented.

As to which order to read the books, apart from starting with the first Discworld book to get a fix on the quirky world the books are set in, most of them can be read in any sequence at all. There are plenty of websites with info on who's who and what's what in Discworld, so if there is something about a character that you need to know, you can look it up.

For eggsample, the character of Death may be a bit confusing if you pick up a later book, but as soon as you "get" what he is about, he becomes one of the funniest & cleverest characters of all, IMHO, although I also love The Luggage, which unfortunately only appeared in a couple of early books.

I discovered TP's books when I worked in a library, and having the power to order books, I ordered every new title which came out. I also saw an old school friend sometime around that period and raved to her about the books. About a decade later I saw her and she introduced me to her teenage daughter by saying, this is the person who told me about Terry Pratchett's books and her daughter's face lit up like a sunbeam. If you do one good deed in your life and get a smile like that, it makes it all worth while. :-)

Helen