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- From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
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- Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 1 of 3
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:42:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.231233.22599@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan27.121034.7232@fmg.bt.co.uk> <1993Jan28.124248.1209@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan28.124248.1209@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.121034.7232@fmg.bt.co.uk> pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young) writes:
- >>Incidentally, Terry came in for a bit of slagging off in The Guardian
- >>recently. An article described the attempt by two people to write a
- >>formula bestseller, and they were searching the bestseller lists for a
- >>style to copy. Paraphrased from memory....
- >>
- >>``How about Terry Pratchett? He seems very popular''
- >>
- >>``Not a hope. 20 years of anoraks and train spotting wouldn't even begin
- >>to get me into the mindset required for understanding him''
- >>
- >
- >How insulting! Trains shouldn't be spotted (nice go-faster stripes are
- >preferable :)
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- I always thought it was the geeks who went a-gricing who were spotted!
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- Jo [who sorta suspects that she may regret that one!]
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