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In reply to heddleston • 12:48p, 4/9/26
I love Discworld and agree it takes Pratchett a few books to really find his voice. Night Watch is one of my favorite books of any genre, and there are quotable moments in just about every book.

Don't sleep on the Tiffany Aching novels, either; I think they're technically classified as YA, but a ton of great stuff in there.
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1:27p, 4/9/26
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I bought a gigantic e-book bundle so I have almost the whole set, maybe missing one or two books total.

What order did yall read it in? I went back and forth and then just decided to go chronological because it seemed like other orders cherry picked from the beginning and I don't want to be let down after the first few books.
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1:42p, 4/9/26
Mostly chronological, but I skipped around some. There's lists that put all the mini arcs in reading order if you want to focus on certain characters, although there is overlap among all the books.
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3:26p, 4/9/26
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DCC will be 10 books

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW6hIkLNoh3/?igsh=ejcxeGgxaXYzNXBh
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In reply to SpreadsheetAg • 4:00p, 4/9/26
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SpreadsheetAg said:
DCC will be 10 books

https://instagr.am/p/DW6hIkLNoh3


For us olds who don't do Instagram, what does that clip say?
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In reply to heddleston • 4:26p, 4/9/26
heddleston said:
I bought a gigantic e-book bundle so I have almost the whole set, maybe missing one or two books total.

What order did yall read it in? I went back and forth and then just decided to go chronological because it seemed like other orders cherry picked from the beginning and I don't want to be let down after the first few books.


Chronological is fine. There are a bunch of sub-series (Witches, Guards, Wizards, Death, etc.), but Pratchett provides enough context so that just about all of them can be read as stand-alone books.
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In reply to FL_Ag1998 • 8:17p, 4/9/26
FL_Ag1998 said:
SpreadsheetAg said:
DCC will be 10 books

https://instagr.am/p/DW6hIkLNoh3


For us olds who don't do Instagram, what does that clip say?

Just click on the video.. I'm old without an Instgram account and it played for me.
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In reply to jkag89 • 4:48a, 4/10/26
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jkag89 said:
FL_Ag1998 said:
SpreadsheetAg said:
DCC will be 10 books

https://instagr.am/p/DW6hIkLNoh3


For us olds who don't do Instagram, what does that clip say?

Just click on the video.. I'm old without an Instgram account and it played for me.


Huh, it won't play in duckduckgo browser, but it will play in google browser.
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9:28a, 4/10/26
Finished: The Sowers of the Thunder The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected Stories (Halcyon Classics) and *How it Unfolds by James S. A. Corey (reread). For some reason, Kindle didn't show the Corey book as read, so I started it and it seemed very familiar. It's more of a short story than a book, so between that and it being a reread I finished it in one day. The Robert E. Howard books are filler material for waiting rooms and short breaks. I started it a couple of years ago and have read about 65%

Starting: Animal Farm by George Orwell
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10:16a, 4/10/26
Completed: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock. Good enough and important historically, but Moorcock's writing for me isn't quite at the level of a Jack Vance or a Fritz Lieberman. Probably also doesn't help that Elric, while a revolutionary character at the time, reads today a little like a Hot Topic come to life.
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9:03a, 4/12/26
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare. First time ever reading this one, and I loved it.
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12:58p, 4/12/26
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Like Catherine herself in the shadow of Peter, this book was nowhere near the epic scope of Peter the Great but was still an easy well researched read and good continuation on the greater Romanov dynasty.

Probably taking a Russia break but plan to read Massies next book covering the Romanovs: "Nicholas and Alexandra The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty".
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3:39p, 4/12/26
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Lonesome Dove.

Probably would have never picked this book up if it wasn't for TexAgs. Thanks yall!
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12:50p, 4/13/26
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yikes...hopefully this isn't any of our local Dresden fans.

What a nut job.
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3:09p, 4/13/26
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Completed first reading of The Martian. One of the best two first novels I've read, with the other being The Hunt For Red October.

Speaking of Clancy, next up on my list is Red Storm Rising, which will be a re-read (first read this one back in about 1988 or 1989).
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 4:03p, 4/13/26
Red Storm Rising was one of my very often re-reads for years. I really enjoyed that one.
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In reply to lurker76 • 4:50p, 4/13/26
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lurker76 said:
Red Storm Rising was one of my very often re-reads for years. I really enjoyed that one.

One of my favorites! My whole platoon read my copy in Camp Stanley Korea back in the day. It was falling apart at the end.
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4:53p, 4/13/26
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Dead Lions by Mick Herron A- Very good book but it was hard to keep track of all the characters at times.
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In reply to lurker76 • 5:19p, 4/13/26
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Red Storm Rising was one of my very often re-reads for years. I really enjoyed that one.

Never did a reread, but one of my favorites. Remember how that insanely thick paperback got so worn out just reading it once.

Does it hold up to tech changes?
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5:24p, 4/13/26
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Tom Clancy got me back into enjoying reading. In college I read all the jack ryan books and started appreciating it again. Been off to the races since.
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5:52p, 4/13/26
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Started The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne and am enjoying it greatly although I do not yet have a good idea of where the three main character groups/ story arcs are in relation to one another geographically. I'm assuming they will cross paths eventually.

Makes me want to pick up a sword and shield and join a shield wall.
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5:54p, 4/13/26
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Just finished the Red Rising trilogy! Not the greatest books I've ever read, but they were fast paced and overall pretty fun
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In reply to thegoodolag15 • 7:19p, 4/13/26
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Take a break and then pick up Iron Gold. The next three books are awesome.
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In reply to Wolfpac 08 • 9:46p, 4/13/26
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Finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I did a mix of reading and listening this go-round as I refresh myself before diving into the second half of this saga. If I didn't have to be up at 4am, I'd start reading Golden Son right now.

Books read in 2026:

January
The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

February


March
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien

April
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Red Rising - Pierce Brown (re-read)
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In reply to Absolute • 11:10p, 4/13/26
It's hard for me to say, as I haven't read it in quite a few years. It seemed like it did, and I always thought of it as from the '80s so it was appropriate.
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10:28a, 4/14/26
Last night I finished Animal Farm by George Orwell and started Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell. I had not read Animal Farm since high school as one of the required reading books.
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10:51p, 4/14/26
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I just finished reading Dark Scared Night by Michael Connelly. It's the fifth book by him that I've read.
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10:04a, 4/15/26
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Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Seems I'm hesitant to reread a lot of the books we read in high school...
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In reply to htxag09 • 11:15a, 4/15/26
That's one I'm pretty sure I won't go back and reread, much like The Black Pearl. I did really enjoy Shane; it was a favorite for a long time, and one of the first books that made me wish I knew the main character.
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