I love the Watch. Now, I quite like Rincewind and Cohen, and the Lancre witches are straight up awesome, but the Watch is The Watch. So... am I a bad person for wanting to skip Interesting Times and Maskerade and jump straight into Feet of Clay?
Now part of me is even willing to read Maskerade before Feet of Clay, I've read good things about that book, but somehow I'm just not up for Rincewind, even if he's tagging along with the fabled Silver Horde. He was cool and fun in the first two books but there's only so much interest a whiny wizard who never learns magic will generate on me. I've nothing against the cowardice. I just really wish he'd gain some skills.
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Oh, and just a heads up, Maskerade isn't about Rincewind, it's about the Lancre witches, if that affects your reading choice at all. It's one of my favourite Lancre witch books.
I know Maskerade involves the Lancre witches, and also that it's a send-up of Phantom of the Opera, which makes it marginally more interesting to me - but compared to the Watch characters, the witches kinda disappoint me. The Watch characters are just more dynamic, and the whodunit plots more gripping.
I mean, you've got Rincewind, the witches, the Watch, and Susan too, but on the whole they don't really cross over into each other's stories too much. I actually kinda like that about the series, because you don't have to read every book in the proper order to make sense of what's happening. ^_^