![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He may write benign comedy but he knows how horribly complicated and exciting the Universe is." (A. Whenever I read his stories I find myself thinking that he is "grown up". at once hilariously cynical and idealistically practical." ( Independent) Pratchett has been rightly praised for comic invention and whimsy he does not always get enough credit for the psychological comedy of embarrassment which makes us blush with self-recognition. "The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies. An extraordinary evening of storytelling, readings, and memories of Sir Terry Pratchett on the eve of his passing with Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon.Watch N. I read his books at a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted" ( Guardian) a master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a kind of insidious wisdom about human nature. I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts of spontaneous laughter." (BEN AARONOVITCH Guardian) he remains one of the most consistently funny writers around a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun and the deflationary three-part list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The genius of Pratchett is that he never goes for the straight allegory. ![]()
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