> Come on to the forum and comment if you want an article series titled something like “Thande Gushes About Discworld for 5000 words” instead…
Yes please
I have to admit I have very rarely cared about continuity in Discworld, possibly because every* book is a standalone, and possibly because none of the inconsistences really matter to the characters (or indeed plots).
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, I find the first 4 or 5 books fairly forgettable (except Equal Rights), and the last 3 or 4 (Unseen Academicals, Rising Steam, Snuff) a sad decline in enjoyability. There were a few in the middle which I remember thinking when I read them for the first time "this wasn't as good as the last one", but then there was the run including The Truth and Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal etc. which were, I think, pretty much peak Discworld.
*- for certain low values of "every"
Yes please
I have to admit I have very rarely cared about continuity in Discworld, possibly because every* book is a standalone, and possibly because none of the inconsistences really matter to the characters (or indeed plots).
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, I find the first 4 or 5 books fairly forgettable (except Equal Rights), and the last 3 or 4 (Unseen Academicals, Rising Steam, Snuff) a sad decline in enjoyability. There were a few in the middle which I remember thinking when I read them for the first time "this wasn't as good as the last one", but then there was the run including The Truth and Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal etc. which were, I think, pretty much peak Discworld.
*- for certain low values of "every"