You end up placing limits on yourself about what is “sensible” and never think about what it is you actually want. But being in a community can also hold you back when you worry about how others will perceive you. Being in the midst of a community can be a wonderful thing as you can feel supported and like you belong. What Unseen University is really about is community. Time is run out, and for the sake of the cheese cart, the wizards must play football. Ponder Stibbons, the new Master of Tradition of the Unseen University, has discovered that over eighty percent of the university’s food budget is covered by a bequest that stipulates they put forth a football (or soccer, if you’re American) team at least once every twenty years. Thus, I would suggest starting with Guards! Guards!, The Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, or Going Postal instead.On the surface, Unseen Academicals is about sports. While Unseen Academicals does stand alone, it contains a plethora of references to other books in the series, possibly the most self referential of any Discworld novels. Unseen Academicals is the thirty-seventh book in the Discworld series, and not one I’d recommend starting with.

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