Reply to: Terry Pratchett - Love or Loathe?

[FarmerPalmer]

I've just finished reading "Nation" ... Brilliant !

[zara_backdog]

I like him - better then that J K Rowling stuff - Discworld rocks

[KathyWoolfe]

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.

The difference is that TP has set his books in a whole different universe where magic literally is part of the action. TH writes books set in a universe which is 99% the same as this this one and so has to come up with believeable "cause and effect" scenarios.

BTW I like both authors equally and I also like the Douglas Adams books (especially the Dirk Gently ones).

[El_Diablo]

Fine, I'll do it myself...

<< canned laughter >>

You'll find out soon enough.

[cojak]

Monstrous Regiment was a close second!

And I've been waiting for the Hogfather DVD - now will buy it and wait for The Colour of Magic to appear...

(are we the same sockpuppets, NAT???)

[NotAllThere]

Agreed. Night Watch is the best so far

"So, shoot first, ask questions later?"
"There's nothing I want to ask him".

(after "Where's my cow?" ). Though having re-read monstrous regiment I've started to appreciate that more.

Loved the dvd of Hogfather.

[cojak]

I think Night Watch is his best. His later books are darker and melancholic, less slapstick humour (I like all of them, except The Last Continent - that was a bit of a purple patch...)

[Another Dodgy Agent]

Fine, I'll do it myself...

<< canned laughter >>

[DiscoStu]

Wilmslooooooooooow!

Fine, I'll do it myself...

<< canned laughter >>

[Another Dodgy Agent]

ok

I would also suggest Night Watch.

[DS23]

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

ok

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.