Thread: The Guardian click-bait - Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius
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Old 09-01-2015, 10:26 AM   #102
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Thanks for quoting that, Tommy. All very valid points.

I do see Pratchett's books becoming well-loved classics in the same way as, to pick a random example, C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" books are, and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books are almost certainly destined to be. There is, however, (to my mind at least) a clear distinction between a popular classic such as Narnia, Harry Potter, or Discworld, and a recognition that the author of such books is a "great writer", in the sense that Dickens, Shakespeare, or Austen are recognised as great writers. Would you not recognise that distinction yourself?
You're stacking the deck a bit there Harry, you have picked children's books as popular classics there to go up against your "great writer" list, so I'd like to switch Lewis and Rowling for Tolkien and Orwell as popular classic's.
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