Brutha is the Chosen One.
His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the shape of a tortoise.
Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read. He can't write. He's pretty good at growing melons. And his wants are few.
He wants to overthrow a huge and corrupt church.
He wants to prevent a horrible holy war.
He wants to stop the persecution of a philosopher who has dared to suggest that, contrary to the Church's dogma, the Discworld really does go through space on the back of an enormous turtle(*).
He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please.
But most of all, what he really wants, more than anything else, is for his god to Choose Someone Else...
(* which is true, but when has that ever mattered?)
The series
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
#1 · 1983The Colour of Magic 
#2 · 1986The Light Fantastic 
#3 · 1987Equal Rites 
#4 · 1987Mort 
#5 · 1988Sourcery 
#6 · 1988Wyrd Sisters 
#7 · 1989Pyramids 
#8 · 1989Guards! Guards! 
#9 · 1990Eric 
#10 · 1990Moving Pictures 
#11 · 1991Reaper Man 
#12 · 1991Witches Abroad 
#13 · 1992Small Gods 
#14 · 1992Lords and Ladies 
#15 · 1993Men at Arms 
#16 · 1994Soul Music 
#17 · 1994Interesting Times 
#18 · 1995Maskerade 
#19 · 1996Feet of Clay 
#20 · 1996Hogfather 
#21 · 1997Jingo 
#22 · 1998The Last Continent 
#23 · 1998Carpe Jugulum 
#24 · 1999The Fifth Elephant 
#25 · 2000The Truth 
#26 · 2001Thief of Time 
#27 · 2002Night Watch 
#28 · 2003Monstrous Regiment 
#29 · 2004Going Postal 
#30 · 2005Thud! 
#31 · 2007Making Money 
#32 · 2009Unseen Academicals 
#33 · 2011Snuff 
#34 · 2013Raising Steam 
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