Terry Pratchett - Love or Loathe?

[ratewhore]

hmm, bit too geeky for me I'm afraid...

[Bob Dalek]

What's wrong with corduroy trousers

Corduroy: Helen Keller's favourite colour.

[zara_backdog]

Much better then Harry Potter - just read 'The Thud'

[oracleslave]

Corduroy: Helen Keller's favourite colour.

[d000hg]

First 10-12 were very good, slightly mixed after that but some still very good. I'm slightly behind now though, too many to keep up with.

[Ardesco]

Read some that were very funny, and read a load that were utter crap. I gave up reading them when the crap ones started to outweigh the good ones. Watched the TV version of colour of magic and found that quite good (but then that was one of the books I liked).

Guards Guards was probably my favourite.

[Board Game Geek]

Tried The Colour of Magic a few times, but found it impenetrable.

Don't get me wrong, I like fantasy, I like comedy and I like surreal. However, I like a certain logic and rationale underpinning the whole package.

I much prefer Tom Holt, in the sense that he does some excellent research and his stories, although fantastical and surreal, have logic underpinning them.

Terry Pratchett asks you to "suspend disbelief", but doesn't explain why. You just have to accept it.

Tom Holt doesn't use the "It's magic, so believe it" get out of jail card.

[snaw]

Tried The Colour of Magic a few times, but found it impenetrable.

Don't get me wrong, I like fantasy, I like comedy and I like surreal. However, I like a certain logic and rationale underpinning the whole package.

I much prefer Tom Holt, in the sense that he does some excellent research and his stories, although fantastical and surreal, have logic underpinning them.

Terry Pratchett asks you to "suspend disbelief", but doesn't explain why. You just have to accept it.

Tom Holt doesn't use the "It's magic, so believe it" get out of jail card.

Tell you what, honestly, try reading Going Postal, come back tell us what you think. The colour of magic was him in his infancy, he gets way way better than that.

And BTW he sort of does try to explain it normally - maybe not in that particular book, but most definitely later on and usually it's a kind of sideshow - he's mainly parodying real life and using fantasy as his medium.

[DS23]

Tell you what, honestly, try reading Going Postal, come back tell us what you think.

ok

[Another Dodgy Agent]

ok

I would also suggest Night Watch.