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Terry Pratchett - recommend me some please

Started by Johnboy, April 02, 2020, 09:36:48 AM

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Quote from: Phil_A on April 04, 2020, 10:02:40 AM
That whole plot thread is a pretty accurate pastiche of traditional Conan-esque sword n' sorcery, maybe a bit too accurate as he didn't put enough gags in to make it obvious.

Likewise with the two wandering rogues Rincewind tells his story to at the beginning, who are basically just lifted from Fitz Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories, but without that knowledge their presence in the tale is a bit confounding.

Oh aye, I got the pastiche. I just recall it being fairly "straight" compared to Rincewind and Twoflower, and especially compared with Cohen and all that followed. A cute little vision of what could have been (but thankfully wasn't).