>my favorite book of all time is Guards! Guards! by Terry PratchettWhat type of person do you imagine?
>>25309072A witty, well adjusted, pleasant person.
>>25309072A redditor, naturally
>>25309072Me cause it's me
>>25309072I've never read a Terry Pratchett novel, but I imagine a Redditor.
>>25309153Not op but you should give them a try. I read the whole series during the lockdowns and they’re just silly fun. You do like to have fun right?
>>25309164if I want silly fun I can read lots of books, why this one in particular
>>25309072I read this one last year because it seems like Terry Pratchett is almost universally well-regarded. It was, and I say this without a shred of exaggeration, one of the worst things I have ever read. It was a good lesson in ignoring the opinions of normies and realizing that normies have shit taste
>>25309164go back to preddit
>>25309253If I remember correctly Guards! Guards! is about a third of the way through the series and marks the introduction of a few new characters that are interesting trope inversions and who play heavily in subsequent entries in the series. I don’t want to spoil it and although I enjoyed reading them all in sequence they’re all fun, light reads that generally stand on their own.>>25309267I shan’t.
>>25309072pretty cool guy
>>25309072It's shit.>Villain is a bad man for no real reason>Naturally, the one female character is good and smart>The dragon gets to live happily ever after even though it murdered a ton of innocent peoplePratchett's books were all mostly like this, and I don't see the appeal at all. The Color of Magic and Light Fantastic were great, then it turned to shit.
>>25309282>trope inversion
>>25309929It's strange to see someone filtered by such a mid comedic book for literal children but apparently that's the brainpower of 4chan for you.
>>25309932>media literacy>video essay
>>25309072Someone who stopped reading in his early 20s. Probably a pleasant guy, though.
>>25309929>The Color of Magic and Light Fantastic were great, then it turned to shit.bait too obvious, come on
>>25309072a fa/tg/uy
>>25309929>>25310007The Color of Magic and Light Fantastic are great if you read Conan, Elric, and Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, which no young adult has in the past 30 years.As I age, I develop some legitimate concerns with Sir Terry's writing, mostly being a bit too fedora at times (even though Small Gods is excellent), some of the books coming across as preachy, and the villains seeming incompetent because they must always be through conceptually defeated, unmasked, and deconstructed to the point they seem so self-destructing they were never dangerous at all. But at the end of the day, that's an attribute of overt thematic coherence (which is difficult to complain about in light of what real slop looks like), and trying to write a meaningful book after already having written 40 other books which you have also tried to make actually be about something, and carry a message.
>>25309072a tremendous faggot>>25309929That's because you wrote the first two books to be funny and the rest to be "racism bad!" allegories. except for jingo, which removed the allegory
>>25309950>mid comedic book for literal childrenyou filtered yourself with your own comment kek. his books were incredibly reddit, and he probably raped girls too in gaiman's hot tub but got away with it
It's funny watching anons twist themselves into pretzels claiming that Discworld was anything but protoreddit.
>>25309072redditor
>>25309072A child or a man child
>>25309929Yes the color of magic is the only good one because its written in the style of different people. I like small gods a little bit but its still just whining about his childish understanding of history and the world like all the rest
Moist von Lipwig was him beginning to grow up and learn something about the world but whoops, too late, he was already 60 at that point
>>25309072A marvel fan that finally aged out of marvel.
>>25310761You know what else is proto-reddit? All of anglo literature. Making distinctions is just silly in this case.
>>25310845This isn't reddit you fucking tard, this is just British comedy that you can find in sitcoms like Faulty Towers, Are You Being Served? or Keeping Up Appearances. The difference between reddit and that is that reddit goes over the top with the sarcasm and jokes to the point every single scene has to have a quip even if it's a sentimental scene. Not to mention reddit also relies heavily on pop culture and appearing smart.
>>25310900>This isn't reddit you fucking tard, this is just British comedyIt seemeth the jest is lost upon thee...
>>25310900And the diskworld series is like a forty book long Monty Python skit. Is that Reddit too?
>>25310845brits are pretty reddit, yes
>>25310911yes, and tristram shandy is not reddit
>>25310900>>>>>faulty
>>25309072Gigachad
Nightwatch.It's the pratchett book I enjoyed and have reread the most.It's peculiar since you can detect his longing for a past england.Most of what came after it Is garbage I regret reading, especially monstrous regiment and unseen academicals, I desire to remove them from my memory
>>25311168I liked the recurring street vendor always selling slop of some variety
>>25309072Married audio engineer in his late 50s who brews his own cider
>>25309253The Night Watch series of the Discworld books are some of the funniest of the lot, at least all the way up to Night Watch itself (his dementia started getting in the way of his writing right around Snuff).>>25309282What are you even talking about? Is this a bot post?>>25310152For a guy that writes "racism bad" into his books, he sure does make fun of multiculturalism a lot.
>>25311168Monstrous Regiment was meh, but the rest of the Industrial Revolution books are top notch, Going Postal being my favorite of the bunch.
>>25311800There are some decent parts, but other parts are unforgivable
>>25310900>Faulty
>>25309072A very specific kind of old British nerd. Age 40+ but more likely to be closer to 60 now. Wears hats and have a beard. You have been into Games Workshop miniatures since the 80s and drink exclusively Hobgoblin or home-brewed mead. You also adore Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 2000AD comics. You listen to exclusively Prog and NWOBHM.
>>25312523reddit
