![]() Hell, I started with Snuff, which is not only towards the end of the series, but the very last Guards/Watch Book, and I was fine. MOST of the books are designed where you can pick them up as your first discworld novel and be completely fine. The series starts to pick up significantly in General Readability at Equal Rites or Mort, #3 and #4 in the series respectively. ![]() Well dang my dude, there's your problem! I can't get past like page 20 of that thing, it's impossible to focus on. As time goes on, the series gets more interested in people and less in highfalutin' concepts, and becomes much more enjoyable to read. Octarine is such a major part of the worldbuilding of Colour of Magic, it seems hard to believe that it is entirely dropped from the series after The Last Continent and only shows up in two Watch books. This makes it way more abstract than later Discworld books. Third, Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic delight in asking you to imagine literally unimaginable things: an eighth colour, a glowing darkness, etc. The book is still funny without it, but the deeper comedy is much less accessible than later entries. ![]() Second, a lot of the humour derives from parodies of fantasy tropes and stories that were popular at the time but are no longer current. Colour of Magic has a lot of weaknesses that would make it especially challenging for someone with ADHD and aphantasia.įirst, it is very picaresque, with a plot that meanders from section to section without anything very high stakes to grab your attention and force you to get emotionally involved. ![]()
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