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Old 09-02-2015, 12:51 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
Make all the quality judgements you like but if the issue is repetition and diversity of ideas then Austen-Pratchett is an unfair comparison. Austen only wrote 6 novels. Pratchett has at least that many distinct stories. I'll concede he gets a bit repetitive later on. Having said that I can't say I can predict his plots so much as his jokes follow a similar pattern and so often only raise a smile where once I'd've LOL'd.
And of course you guess directly how an Austen book will end and a large part of the plot.
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