Cory Doctorow points out at boing boing this cool chart showing the interrelationships between Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. This is a nice adjunct to the more traditional approach of reading the Discworld novels in order of publication.
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Dubner & Levitt: Freakonomics
(*****)
John Grogan: Marley & Me : Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
China Mieville: Iron Council
(*****)
James Morrow: City of Truth
(****)
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson: Illuminatus!
Classic discordian science fiction epic. Hilarious, insightful, life-changing. (*****)
Well, one thing that reading in order has going for it is that you're less likely to feel sick of any of the characters than you would if you read straight through a subseries. (I think I could take only so much Rincewind, for example.)
And I think there should be a dotted line between "Guards Guards" and "Moving Pictures" based on Gaspode.
Posted by: Eric Akawie | 2003.08.13 at 18:29