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- From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
- Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:32:18 GMT
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- GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD) writes:
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- >Okay, my two cents....
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- >I prefer Pratchett for two reasons:
-
- > (i) Pratchett comes out with more books per year.
- *grin* And they aren't just churned out.... :)
-
- > (ii) Pratchett seems to actually _like_ his characters. Even if Rincewind
- > _did_ get sucked into the Dungeon Dimensions, he didn't have every
- > possible instance of his existence ended! If you wonder what I'm
- > talking about, go read Mostly_Harmless. M_H is a good book but I
- > really really hated the ending. (Maybe he shouldna finished it on
- > a plane like TP points out. Could be the nasty airplane food cramped
- > him and put him in a nasty mood.) Anyway, I guess I just prefer
- > Pratchett because he seems more likely to have a happy ending while
- > Adams makes Vonnegut look like the happy-go-lucky type.
- *smile* It seems to me that the Discworld novels are more 'light'...
- not in entertainment, but in attitude. Arthur Dent was pathetic as a
- person, but so was Rincewind - the difference being their outlook....
- Rincewind is pathetic but wishes he wasn't - Arthur just gets swept along.
-
- *sigh* After chapter 3, Mostly Harmless lost me..... :'(
-
- >Now that I've gotten hold of the address of an import dealer, I can feasibly
- >get some overseas Pratchett books! Now if I can just get my hands on some
- >money.......
-
- iBruhahahahaha. I just saw a 'review' in Dragon, mentioning Reaper Man's
- release.... America is slow isn't it :)
-
- Eccles
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