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>shits out books
>all of them are highly readable and most of them are funny
>humble
>wrote dialogue for an Oblivion companion mod
>unfortunately people seem to love his worst books and hate his best books
>dies
Unfortunately he won't be releasing any more books. Other than him and Douglas Adams who else to should be my go to for witty light reading?
No Americans please. I've already read everything Twain ever wrote and he's the only one who is remotely in the same ballpark when it comes to lite fare. Ideally brits but /int/ is okay if they're on the same level.
t. american.

>> No.22680275

>>22680252
What books of his do you consider his best, and which do you consider his worst?

>> No.22680331

>>22680252
THE gay reddit nerd author

>> No.22680553

>>22680275
In general one offs are the best, the series are the worst. I don't like gaurds or the witches at all. really. The exception being the ones about death which are B tier.
His best character for comedy purposes is the wizard, and his best written jokes are in those books. Om and Academicals are also good.

>> No.22680598

>>22680252
The reading order itself filters 90% of /lit/

>> No.22680831

>>22680252
Didn't he tranny out? Or is he now regarded as transphobic? It's hard to tell with these British writers

>> No.22680938

>>22680275
For me, it's The Carpet People

>> No.22680961

>>22680553
I think the one offs are the best too, like Pyramids, Moving Pictures, but they are better if you know the series as they are referenced often.

>> No.22680967

>>22680831
>Didn't he tranny out? Or is he now regarded as transphobic?
I think a few right wing cunts decided Terry was a fellow transphobe as he was an ardent feminist. Pushing the terf idea that to be feminist you must be transphobic.

But his work speaks for itself. All his characters (even the evil horrible ones) were treated with the respect that they knew who they were, even if it wasn't how they were born.

Almost glad Terry died before the civilized world embarrassed itself by focussing on such a trivial issue.

>> No.22681067

>>22680967
>ardent feminist
lol

>> No.22681078

>>22680275
The guard series and standalones are objectively the best but I like rincewind for its comfiness. Mort is kino but the rest of the death novels are shit.

>> No.22681138

Wodehouse is your man for moreish light reading. Better quality control than Pratchett, but every book is exactly the same

>> No.22681151

>>22680252
Joe Abercrombie has really funny/witty prose and dialogue but his novels are more edgy and traditional fantasy, rather than the comedy being a main focus like Pratchett or Adams. You might also like Salman Rushdie if you don't find magical realism annoying.

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22681167

>Pratchett
>Adams

Reddit

>> No.22681174

>>22681138
> wodehouse
This anon speaks the truth. The stories follow a simple pattern, but he always hits it.

>> No.22681868

>>22681138
I've already watched the show. Is it like most things, better in its original form than the show? Is it still worth reading if I've watched?

>> No.22681886

>>22681167
Kill yourself, Twitter.

>> No.22681897

>>22680252
>Other than him and Douglas Adams who else to should be my go to for witty light reading?

P.G. Wodehouse

>> No.22681915

>>22680967
faggot

>> No.22681962

>>22680252
I dunno, Walter Moers?
>>22681897
This too.

>> No.22682044

P.G. Wodehouse, of course.
Rumpole stories by John Mortimer
Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith

>> No.22682062

>>22680252
>wrote dialogue for an Oblivion companion mod
Kino

>> No.22682097

>>22681868
Plots and dialogue is identical, but you miss out all the metaphors, like otoh
>she had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry crossing an iron bridge
>she had a laugh like the waves breaking on a stern and rocky coast
>she looked like she listened to Wagner and did
>when aunt calls to aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps
Start anywhere. They are all identical, content and quality wise

>> No.22683151

>>22680831
Both sides of the gender circus have tried to co-opt him

>> No.22684365

>>22680831
Had a whole worldbuilding subplot about dwarves coming out as women and treated this as a good thing. Didn't seem very subtle

>> No.22684376

>>22680331
>>22681167
Sad but true. I used to like him a lot but after learning more about politics, his biases leap off the page at me.

>> No.22684416

>>22684365
"This coworker who you always thought was a man on account of the beard suddenly comes to the office wearing lipstick and heels and wants to get a new first name, what do you do?" and then I believe the answer was "have one of the girls take her out shopping and teach her how to dress". Golly gee willikers, whatever could he have meant by this? What kind of zany metaphor did crafty ol' Pterry cook up for us that time? I guess we'll never know for sure

>> No.22684621

>>22680252
>believes that we should recognize the author from the photo

>> No.22684632

I think the Red Dwarf books, particularly the first two might be secretly better than Douglas Adams or Pratchett.
More genuinely funny and human. Less flippantly smug.

>> No.22684662

>>22684416
at the time, it was clearly intended as an analogy to Muslims/niqab

>> No.22684730

>>22684662
It's about that too, especially the broader storyline, but in this manifestation the trans angle is very on the nose. It's doing both

>> No.22684755

>>22680967
what the fuck is a terf and why are you such a monumental faggot?

>> No.22686063

>>22680252
Spike Milligan
P. G. Wodehouse
Jerome K. Jerome
G.K. Chesteron
E.V. Lucas
Robert Benchley