What are /lit/'s opinions on Terry Pratchett?
I read a lot of Discworld as a young man and I remember thoroughly enjoying them, particularly pic related.
They are genuinely funny.
read the first two and two others years ago and was indifferent to them
>>8280678
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Overrated by his fans.
>>8280669
They're good 2bh phamme
Whenever I feel worn out I download a random pdf of his books on my phone and read through it in a day. Always makes me feel relaxed and well, cared for. As >>8280910 said, they're warm and entertaining - and I'm willing to bet Pratchett himself didn't mean them to be much more. He repeats so multiple times throughout his "non-fiction" collection, A Slip of the Keyboard.
Nonetheless, trying to read them in adulthood is bound to give you a wealth of insights you hadn't noticed before, as well as a considerable quantity of examples of writer's craftmanship, as well as proper "worldbuilding" and "continuity", as much as these words have been tainted on this board by the ignominious fuckfaces who can't stand literature to have a fucking dragon in it once in a while. Shortsighted of them, since the buggers often explode when you try to shoo them away and you end up with a leg a good deal shorter than the other.
>>8280991
Sir Pratchett is that you?
>>8280669
They're interesting as a kind of third way between genre fiction fantasy and post modern magical realism. Strangely reminiscent of Pynchon at times too, so if you want to get your teeth into something you'd probably enjoy a lot of Ruggles' work if you like TP.
I'm not totally sure how to take some of his last novels either, they're a matured style of storytelling but a lot comes over as him just forcing out a last few ideas while also having alzheimer's
>>8280910
You can't be a contrarian and a shill, faggot. Shilling implies being a stooge for the mainstream opinion.
>>8282736
No, shilling implies being a hired voice that's supposed to give the impression of mainstream opinion to an opinion that isn't.
