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Have read Guards! Guard! and Men at Arm. Lots of fun, and just the antidote for the times. Like they say in the afterwords, bring your troubles too, don't bother to leave them behind, because chances are you'll see them in a completely different Discworld light. But I'm somewhat disappointed, because Terry Prachett is not going to be an author who I'll be marathoning, and I was so hoping he would be.
When I read an author I like to be fully absorbed by the story. I don't need much, obviously Susan Clark is absorbing, but I'm more than willing to suspend my disbelief for your standard bread and butter writer like Fiona Patton as well. But Prachett is such a jerky writer. He uses it to great effect, of course, but every time just as I was getting comfortable along comes an aside or a switch of context. And yes, it leaves me LOTFL most of the time, but I've been kicked out of the story. Reading him is almost like having ADD. The other day I was reading him on the train, and about ten minutes in I came upon an interesting pun and then spent the rest of the train ride staring out of the window instead of reading on. >_
When I read an author I like to be fully absorbed by the story. I don't need much, obviously Susan Clark is absorbing, but I'm more than willing to suspend my disbelief for your standard bread and butter writer like Fiona Patton as well. But Prachett is such a jerky writer. He uses it to great effect, of course, but every time just as I was getting comfortable along comes an aside or a switch of context. And yes, it leaves me LOTFL most of the time, but I've been kicked out of the story. Reading him is almost like having ADD. The other day I was reading him on the train, and about ten minutes in I came upon an interesting pun and then spent the rest of the train ride staring out of the window instead of reading on. >_