OT : This week's question for the literati

Oh fer Ged's sake...
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Lozzo <> wrote

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Um, that's prolly amongst the best of them.
But I dunno what the grumbling's about.
I've read most of his stuff and simply enjoyed it. Some better than others -
yeah sure that's inevitable innit? But even the worst are better than most
other stuff.


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'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
(Homer Simpson).

 

Hmm, "Pyramids" was the first Pratchett book I read when, after years of
peer pressure -- "Oh God, it's the funniest thing, /ever/", "if you liked
HHG2TG", etc. -- and I did find it most amusing and laughed out loud on
many an occasion.

However, I couldn't help but feel that there was an attempt to duplicate
Douglas Adams' (far less prolific) writing style and, for some perverse
reason, that spoiled it a little for me despite being (or more likely,
because I'm) a lifelong Adams fan.

I didn't read another Pratchett for quite some time until someone lent me
"Only You Can Save Mankind" which was quite funny.

Suze (who is a fan) lent me "The Last Continent" whilst on 'oliday. Ho
hum. I found it mildly amusing. Same old Discworld stuff just in a new
setting.

Last year I read "Thief of Time". Hmm. Amusing. New setting, similar
stuff.

Quite. 'cept for the teenager reference, like.

Actually, thinking about it, I disagree ('cept still for the teenager
reference...) as he's made a small, or more likely large, fortune out of
writing (mostly) about a silly place that he invented. And people buy it.
I'd say that was a stroke of genius.

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| Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2000 ZX12R-A1 -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12
|# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher.
|That the scenery | It always gives the test first
|Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward."
***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****