I stopped reading Colour of Magic because I just became bored.
I think it's the three story structure thing. it means there isn't so much of a single story arc thing.
I liked how he wrote, but I'm not entirely sure I want to read more. He created an interesting world, and he clearly thought about the physics of that world. But I think it has too much silliness and characters accidentally getting out of danger, rather than characters demonstrating real skill.
Yes, I think I'd like to read about skilful characters in his world.
But I will try a later book, one of the more popular ones and see how that goes.
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in reply to Lydia Conwell :mastodon: • • •Starting points I might suggest:
"Sourcery" -- 1st I read. Rincewind/Wizards.
"Equal Rites" -- 1st Granny Weatherwax book. She trains a young woman whose ambition is to become a wizard (not a witch).
"Guards, Guards" -- 1st of the "Night Watch" cycle, with Vimes. Clever character and plots.
My personal favorite is probably "Wyrd Sisters", which features the witches and a lot of Shakespeare spoofs.
Humor and character are usually Pratchett's focus, more than plot.
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in reply to Space Catitude 🚀 • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Lydia Conwell :mastodon: • •@Lydia Conwell :mastodon: I also started to read Pratchett from Colour of Magic, and stopped there for a long time. Then @Diego Roversi gave me one of the later books to read and I got hooked.
My feeling is that in the first two books (The Colour of Magic + The Light Fantastic) he was still learning to write Discworld novels, and it shows a lot. Then Equal Rites starts to feel like Pratchett, except in crayons (the themes are all there, and the style is getting there, but there are still a bit of rough edges). And then everything else is great with no caveats.
(ok, there is still a bit of a tendency to solve plots with a bit of a Deus ex Machina, but it's there to solve the stuff that is happening, not the important bits about character development)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla To be honest, I saw a lot of clever thinking in Colour of Magic, and it's impressive world building. You can see he's thought a lot about how the discworld works, and even though it's silly, it has its own logic.
I imagine the later books being better but TCOM wore me out towards the end and I just don't care how it ends.
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