Costanza comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: Costanza 17 December 2010 01:13:13AM 9 points [-]

This question comes up a lot! A fan has come up with a very sensible and helpful chart, in many languages no less! http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/

Comment author: TobyBartels 17 December 2010 01:18:48AM 0 points [-]

This confirms my vague feeling that Rincewind's stuff is not particuarly well connected to the rest of Discworld.

Comment author: Desrtopa 17 December 2010 05:08:24AM 2 points [-]

There are more connections between the books than are laid out in that chart though. The Last Hero, for instance, features members of the Night Watch cast about as strongly as the Wizards cast, and other books have minor connections to each other that are simply inconvenient to draw out because they're far away from each other on the chart.

Rincewind's stories are pretty much all in the vein of fantasy novel satire, while later books tended more towards social commentary in a humorous fantasy setting, so they do end up being a bit disconnected from the books that come later in the series.

Comment author: Unnamed 18 December 2010 05:24:48AM 0 points [-]

Thanks! (distributed also to the other replies)

I think I'll start with Mort and then go from there.