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Old 06-17-2009, 12:07 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
Is the series sort of a satire of the High Fantasy genre? Or more just a light-hearted/quotidianized take on it?
well, a typical Dicsworld book is:
- Fantasy
- Satire
- Hilarious "laugh out loud" book
- Disturbingly deeply philosophical
- Full of quotes (*)
- Full of puns
- Full of observations that make you think for a very long time after you finish the book
- going to be read again and again and again ...

(*) just as Hamlet is full of quotes


A dwarf asks her friend - a werewolf:
"Isn't it difficult to be vegetarian while you are in Human form?"
"It is much more difficult not to be a humanitarian when I am in Wolf form."
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