Working through the Discworld books. Had planned to just go through a story arc at a time, got to near the end of the third Rincewind book, and decided since it was only book 5, maybe I'd switch to printed order… but then it ended on a cliffhanger so I went on ahead and read Eric. (So that's 4 of the... 7? Rincewind books.)
Most of the way through Equal Rights now.
Debating on doing the remaining Rincewinds or moving onto Mort.
Books are charming and amusing but I'm not really feeling it at this point. Everyone says the tone and storytelling style vary wildly in the later books, and that those are much better, AND that the Rincewind books are the weakest of the lot, (with msot people preferring Death or the Watch) and they seem much beloved, but... not totally feeling it though I think I would have absolutely loved them 15 years ago.
I don't want to jump too much out of some sort of sequence (some mix of publishing order and story order) so I don't particularly want to just arbitrarily jump straight to book 20 or whatever to see one of the "good" ones.. but I'm not adverse to going 1, 2, 5, 9, 17, 22, 27 to follow a logical character sequence.
Even if the books "can be read in any order"... and already with Rincewind while basically strictly true, there's definitely past events, recap and catching up involved and the first chunk of Eric would have been really confusing without having gotten through Sourcery first... (And Light Fantastic was a very direct sequel to Color of Magic, but I understand thats the only time where that's the case)
@Rogues':
I've been contemplating picking up Moby Dick at my local Barnes & Noble, but I've heard that the prose/text structure is quite the chore to grind through (apparently it's difficult?)
Thoughts?
It was written a couple hundred years ago, so its going to have that sort of density and language to it.
Also it has lots of chapters about whale anatomy and such that most people just skip, but do add texture to things. (Kind of like the lengthy asides in Les Miserables abotu Waterloo and nuns and prostitutes)