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Originally Posted by gmw
No argument about Discworld being excellent. The argument is about recommending them to someone that does not want to see their religion criticised, and does not want to read about magic unless it's portrayed as evil. Any judgement I may hold concerning those objectives is best reserved for the P&R subforum, but the Discworld series is not a reliable place to fulfil them. (I guess we might argue that Christianity is never explicitly criticised in the series because it does not exist by that name on this fantasy world, but it would be an ignorant reader who did not recognise the references. Magic is portrayed as something tricky, and perhaps best avoided, but not intrinsically evil. And for anyone not familiar with Pratchett's works, don't get me wrong, it's not like Pratchett singled out religion. It was open season on religion, science, government, and pretty much everything else. The absurdities of our existence gave him an endless source to choose from.)
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It is a shame that the OP is so narrow is scope of what he will read. He'll miss out on Discworld. He'll also miss out on a lot of other really good works because there may be a small sex scene or magic isn't evil.