Thread: The Guardian click-bait - Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius
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Old 09-01-2015, 01:46 PM   #112
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I honestly don't recall anyone ever suggesting that he was a literary genius. He was an extremely good and commercially-successful author (and one whose books I very much enjoy reading), but one should, I think, be wary of throwing around words like "genius", don't you think?
Literary genius no. But he was a genius. There are many types of geniuses out there. On an IQ scale, I am a genius, but Terry is far past me on being a human genius.
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