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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
[HHGTTG] I find completely stupid and dull, and can't understand why it's so popular.
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It's brilliant social satire at times, although you can read it for pure fun, too. Something in it for all levels of readers.
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I don't dig it's Monty Python style humour at all, and I didn't find Monty Python very funny either, although most of my friends like it.
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I do like Monty Python, too, but they are knowingly and deliberately silly. Adams is usually not; bizarre at times, I grant you that, but not outright silly. I don't really think the two have very much in common.
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[Discworld] is fun in general, but it has TOO MANY books...
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Heck, no. There are so many sub-genres (Death, the Wizards, the Witches, the Watch, more recently Moist van Lipwig, ...) that there should be something for everybody.
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... the first book was fun for me, but most of the others were pretty dull ...
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If anything, Pratchett gets better over time. I enjoyed his later books much more than, say, Colours of Magic or The Light Fantastic. (But then, I don't care all that much for Rincewind.)
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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
... we probably agree that the first books of the Myth / Discworld series are the best ...
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Nope. I mean, don't know about Myth, but certainly not true for Discworld IMO.