For one thing, it plays on well-established tropes from fantasy litterature, but often turns them upside down. I find them funny, but it is a sometimes morbid, sometimes just very dry kind of humor. One book is build around Macbeth and other Shakespearean plays. I particularly liked that one. The world is a disc (hence the name obviously) and floats through space on the back of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. I begin to realize that I suck at summimg up books, maybe someone can add something more coherent and sense-making. Pretty please

Well, that's definitely an improvement over what Hiyami and I had in mind!

But seeing how it was based on the title alone and I have read six books, I don't know who's better

I haven't read this series yet but it's definitely on my list. It sounds incredibly good. My one concern is how many books there are. I'm not quite sure I could get through them all and I hate leaving series unfinished. Any recommendations on where to start if I do pick these up some time in the near future?

Technically you can start where ever you want, I've heard. The overall world develops, but every book is a finished story, so you don't really have to worry about leaving the series unfinished either. I try ro read them chronologically, but that's just me. And partly because Discworld supposedly undergoes it's own industrialiserede revolution and developments we know from our own world

After the last dev post, I'm just so glad Terry Pratchett has influenced someone enough that this website will always have at least one reference to his work engraved in its history.

Terry Pratchett is one of the reasons I became an English teacher--and which dev post/reference are you meaning, stopboorider? I'm curious now!

Well, I know you didn't ask me, but personally I appreciate a quick answer, so I'm just popping in with no right whatsoever. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's this one: https://beta.tatteredweave.com/forum_subcategories/54/forum_topics/842

Yup, that's the post! Thanks for fetching that for me, I'm on mobile and dead tired from work. Maybe future items will Influenced as well... Going Postal or not, I hope we can get some post outfits or something... I just like mail in all its forms, okay. (Gay joke.)

If you're looking for a jumping on point to the series, I think I would recommend Witches Abroad. It was the first Pratchett book I can remember reading through to completion, and it is easily one of my favourites to this day. It's not the first book, but you don't need to have read any of the others to understand anything that's going on. It also does a very good job of introducing the reader to the discworld and demonstrating the special rules that apply to it! As for the plot, it's about three witches (who only sort of get along) going on a [s]disaster-prone road trip[/s] magical quest to stop a powerful force that's making real people live their lives according to fairy tales. They're armed with pointy hats, a cat who is literally evil, and a wand that's permanently set on "pumpkin".