Oh, and they remembered that they'd been richer before they met him

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As enthusiastically as I have proselytized about Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2004) for the last several years—I now find myself telling people that it's my favorite Discworld novel—I was still somewhat surprised to discover that there is an adaptation of it in the works. I'm not disappointed, I'm just not used to anyone having the same favorite anything as me. But unless I hear reason otherwise, I am really going to look forward to it. IMDb tells me that its con-man protagonist, Moist von Lipwig, is going be played by Richard Coyle. Otherwise known (at least to me) as Jeff, from Coupling. And that really has the potential to be awesome.

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(At some point I really need to figure out how to go about reading Discworld--I read The Colour of Magic and loved it, but the immensity of the rest of the series has left me slightly at a loss as to how best to attack it.)

You should be warned that The Colour of Magic is by now an outlier in the series; within three or four books, the Discworld was moving away from sword-and-sorcery parody and into surprisingly complex forms of social satire. I am one of the readers who by far prefers the latter, so I have no idea where I would suggest you start, but I imagine order of publication might serve as well as anything else. If nothing else, you can observe the growth and development of Pratchett's rather impressive cast of characters. There are at least four distinct groups and possibly more depending on how you count, and they frequently interact.

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I've gathered that the series changed a lot--that's part of what has me uncertain about how to proceed. I picked up a copy of Feet of Clay at a library sale, felt as if there were obviously three or four other books I should have read first, and had no idea which ones.

I am one of the readers who by far prefers the latter, so I have no idea where I would suggest you start, but I imagine order of publication might serve as well as anything else.

I don't mind complex social satire, as long as I'm not adrift in a book that assumes having read previous books. I mostly read The Colour of Magic first because somebody said "You should read this" and gave me a copy.

I suppose I'll try order of publication, then. Thanks!