Burning Petard wrote:9/20 And I am SOOOO jealous BB
Later edit. Pratchett was indeed a late addition to the bookstores in the USA. My son introduced me after he picked up some copies when his US Navy boat (yes, it was a boat, even if it was named after a city in the midwest) visited Australia. It was another ten years before I saw one in a store here. (I could get them easily from Amazon UK)
For those who have not read his stuff, it is very much NOT imitation Tolkien. More like Jonathan Swift. Each takes some current social or political topic and satirizes it to oblivion, with lots of jokes along the way. Consistent target was the british class system. Also one entire book took on Australia.
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I also find myself comparing him to the late Douglas Adams (of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fame). -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Not to mention Dildo and Goodgulf
And Thermofax, Tim Benzedrine and Hashberry, and Arrowroot (son of Arrowshirt).
Hope I've still got my copy around here somewhere; otherwise it's time to hit the second-hand bookstore. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Started to read all the Discworld novels again in published order at the beginning of this year after putting them all on my Kindle. I am three quarters of the way through Guards! Guards! and laughing as much as I did the first time I read them.
I am three quarters of the way through Guards! Guards! and laughing as much as I did the first time I read them.
"Guards! Guards!" is still one of my faves.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
My favourite and probably the creepiest of them all was Lords and Ladies from the Witches series. It was immensely satisfying that the last novel returned to that story.
