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Do we have to put down Chaucer (provider of bawdy humor, fart jokes and plenty of insight into plain ordinary earthy folks) and Jane Austen (who's books I love for their commentary on the society of her day) to pump up Terry Pratchett?
Terry Pratchett himself read broadly and was not shy in making allusions in his own writing (my favorite is the boarding school goat sacrificing scene in Pyramids which nicely refers to and subverts a similar scene in Tom Brown's School Days -both scenes are about pious little mummy's boys named Arthur but the differences in religion leads to some interesting changes).
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