Douglas Adams is my favorite author,
and this series comes up a lot in related recommendations to his style. But it's not similar, on the surface it may appear to be but the writing styles, the world and the humor is very different.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Dirk Gently are my favourite, because i am an absurdist at heart. My other favorite work by him is Last Chance To See and it's just something about his writing style that is so effortless and unmatchable.
I wish he wrote more, I crave it.
Every year i end up reading 150-200 books and I was shying away from Discworld because of the book cover styles and the first book- it somehow seemed like it will be tedious but the craving for more like my favourites above will always lead me here.
So after putting it off for a long time i finally decided to read Discworld, I have read 6 books so far.
Initially I tried to follow the reading order universe chart but now i am going by publication order and currently reading Mort.
In the beginning, in The Color of Magic it took some effort to go along with the text but now i really like the comforting and strange Discworld universe and most of the time it's not a page turner for me i enjoy reading little bits of it throughout the day/week.
I am also picking up so many interesting and clever and downright adorable phrases from it such as "the conversation wandered away like a couple of puppies"
and also saving some passages –
“"There may be universes where librarianship is considered a peaceful sort of occupation, and where the risks are limited to large volumes falling off the shelves on to one’s head, but the keeper of a magic library is no job for the unwary.
Spells have power, and merely writing them down and shoving them between covers doesn’t do anything to reduce it. The stuff leaks.
Books tend to react with one another, creating randomized magic with a mind of its own. Books of magic are usually chained to their shelves, but not to prevent them being stolen…
One such accident had turned the librarian into an ape, since when he had resisted all attempts to turn him back, explaining in sign language that life as an orangutan was considerably better than life as a human being, because all the big philosophical questions resolved themselves into wondering where the next banana was coming from.
Anyway, long arms and prehensile feet were ideal for dealing with high shelves."
It's so good, and there are so many more books in Discworld it's amazing.
I am looking forward to reading them, and then re reading them.
I enjoy reading a lot of different types of books, but these ones with dry and sarcastic humor have a special place in my heart.
by taanukichi