The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.
I read that last month in Barcelona and enjoyed it enough to borrow the second one but not enough to finish that one when my holds for Brandon Sanderson and
Joe Abercrombie came in. Will you be continuing on through the remaining forty books?
A week and a half ago I finished the
First Law trilogy by Abercrombie, then read the
Red Country and his entire other series, the
Shattered Sea books, waiting for
Best Served Cold. Now I'm halfway though that one. The
First Law books are the best by far, though they're all enjoyable page-turners.
Red Country feels very western, though I think it doesn't blend fantasy and western as well as Sanderson's second Mistborn trilogy. By the time I got through it I was a bit sick of the "accomplished killer tries to be a better man" trope because it's the default behavior of one of the main characters through all three of the
First Law trilogy. Sure enough,
Best Served Cold has one too. Each book in his other trilogy has at least one such character too - they're starting to all feel like the same book in many ways.