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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
There are NUMEROUS heated arguments about how to read Pratchett,
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Told ya so.
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Originally Posted by issybird
[*]I don’t like fantasy, but I do like to laugh. badgoodDeb’s mention of guffaws is enticing.
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I like word play. Pratchett is very good at word play. He'll build a whole paragraph (or more) up for a very good word play at the end. So it's not mostly the fantasy part, it's the author's embedded humor.
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Originally Posted by hildea
The books are both hilarious and serious. .....
It's still hilarious, but, well, a cynical, charismatic cult leader, manipulating a group of resentful people into doing what he wants in order to gain power, and believing that he can control them... It's not only hilarious.
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Yes, this. Hilarity with a base of seriousness, giving you a new insight into your own world. (There is less of this in the first few books.)