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Revisiting the classics | A Writer's Life

Would Tolkien enjoy Terry Pratchett? Would PKD be a fan of Ann ... I am no critic, or genius literary expert. I just want to escape ...

Terry Pratchett's Blog, page 6 - Goodreads

Is The Colour of Magic a good introduction to Terry Pratchett? Reading group: Although Pratchett's vast fictional realm is not yet fully ...

Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary - Antipope.org

Back then, Terry was not some gigantic landmark of comedy literature ... find a Discworld book for everyone and anyone somewhere in the series.

How Terry Pratchett's Discworld Has Evolved - The Artifice

You don't even need to ever read all of the 39 books, although most readers would find it difficult to choose not to after they get hooked. It ...

The A.S. Byatt Guide to Discworld - Julie Phillips

It's true that the early books are not nearly as good as the later ones, but ... Unless Death relents and gives him back to us, there will be no new Pratchett ...

Terry Pratchett dies at 66[merged x2] | Other Media - RPGnet Forums

... literary genius). A few years later I got the Hungarian ... Discworld novels, if not one of my favourite pieces of fiction ever.

Terry Pratchett | Good Books > Read and Reviewed by Pooks

Not quite “friends”, not really enemies. Both know that the apocalypse is ... She's about to find out who her grandfather is, and he's definitely not ...

Terry Pratchett, Part 2 - A Fort Made of Books

... really get a kick out of Rincewind and Twoflower. ... The troupe includes a dwarf who, contrary to his genetics, is a literary genius who writes ...

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett | Vulpes Libris

They would never give him a real, grown-up literary ... The problem here isn't Pratchett's writing, it's your apparent lack of understanding ...

Terry Pratchett, Novelist, Dies at 66 - The New York Times

How The Times decides who gets an obituary. There is no formula, scoring system or checklist in determining the news value of a life. We ...

Terry Pratchett | Squaremans

If you start with the first Discworld novel (do not start with the first Discworld novel) you find an able writer enjoying making fun of classic ...

Terry Pratchett - Discworld | Narnia Forums

I didn't find his in-your-face atheism offensive, particularly because he didn't seem to be out to skewer religious believers - at least no more ...

Terry Pratchett is dead - The Lounge - Kerbal Space Program Forums

Terry Pratchett was one of the only if not the only author whose ... A literary genius has passed on. First Leonard Nimoy, now Terry ...

Book Review: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

... discworld novel from long ago, have never found any of his books to be anything other than wonderful. 'Witches Abroad' is no exception.As ...

Down With Snobs — In Defense of Terry Pratchett | A Liar By Trade

The characters have become real people in the minds of millions. That's how books are supposed to work. As a reader of literary fiction, I ...

Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

... genius you get by mixing up Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett — two of my all-time favourite authors. Pratchett's irreverence and Gaiman's ...

Terry pratchett-like books | Mumsnet

The McGary ones are more Pratchetesque but they spin out of the Dublin Trilogy so you really need to read those first and they are not quite the ...

Alternate Universe Carrot and Vimes (Speculation)

I know it's not likely to happen but I would really love to read such a book. ... Terry Pratchett has written an unusual number of them ...

Terry Pratchett fans are defending his honour after The Guardian ...

Today, however, writer Jonathan Jones has penned an article for The Guardian entitled “Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius” and ...

Fangirl Friday - Terry Pratchett - GEEK GIRLS, INC.

... literary genius. He has also been awarded the British Science Fiction Award, the Prometheus Award, the Carnegie Medal, and no less than nine ...