Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's

[Fyndir]

CBA making new thread:

Pratchett. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7141458.stm)

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Sid: Split from boredom thread.

[Greasel_burger]

it will be a sad day...

However his writing abilty may improve as his sanity waivers...

[Hex]

CBA making new thread:

Pratchett. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7141458.stm)

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That sucks :-( I love Pratchett's work, and it'd be a shame for his abilities to be taken away prematurely. Still, he's had better luck than Douglas Adams I guess...

[saladin]

Going by his recent efforts, I very much hope and expect his writing to improve. It would be hard for it to get worse.

At least his five most recent novels have been shoddy rehashes of old ideas.

[Hex]

Going by his recent efforts, I very much hope and expect his writing to improve. It would be hard for it to get worse.

At least his five most recent novels have been shoddy rehashes of old ideas.

You didn't like "Going Postal" or "Thud!" ? I've really enjoyed his recent work tbh....

[Strings]

Nah his recent work has been pretty dull.

[GigaFuzz]

I've been reading them all in order, and the last one I read was Monstrous Regiment, and I have to say, I haven't enjoyed a lot of the later ones. Monstrous Regiment was a bit dull I thought. Night Watch, the one before, was good though.

[Sideshow]

Monstrous Regiment was pretty much the low point. Same joke over and over into absurdity (and not funny absurdity). Going Postal was good though. Have still to read Wintersmith.

[GigaFuzz]

Monstrous Regiment was pretty much the low point. Same joke over and over into absurdity (and not funny absurdity). Going Postal was good though. Have still to read Wintersmith.

About Wintersmith, and the other 'Yound Adult' Discworld books, are those worth reading as well? I've been avoid them so far (Amazing Maurice, Wee Free Men, Hat Full of Sky, etc).

[Hex]

The Amazing Maurice and The Wee Free Men are both worth reading IMO, I wasn't such a fan of Hat Full of Sky though. I've yet to read Wintersmith.

[Fyndir]

Wee Free Men was good. Hat Full of Sky wasn't quite as good. I personally think that Wintersmith was pretty good too.

[Strings]

With Going Postal as the exception, everything after Thief of Time hasn't really done it for me. I just miss his old characters too much, not enough of them.

[Sideshow]

I knew there was another one: The Truth was good. But yeah, pretty much all the other recent ones haven't been great (hence why I've had Wintersmith for a year now without reading it).

[TK-Maximus]

I liked Wintersmith, and I thought Making Money was good too, particularly the foreshadowing of Nation.

[saladin]

My problem is that he's lost his subtle touch of a) the absurd and b) making political/social commentary and satire without it being clunkingly obvious what he's getting at. Since he advanced Discworld into a more modern world, with the clacks and the newspapers and the mail and all the rest, the parallels he draws with the "real" world have become jarringly transparent (just to annoy Sideshow ;)).

In his earlier novels, you could happily read them and miss out the occasional joke or jab at our own civilisation, which would only be realised after thought and subsequent re-readings. With the later stuff (as Strings said, Thief of Time onwards), the jokes and jabs are obvious from the very first read. The new books feel far less deep - they're still obviously Pratchett, just not Pratchett at his prime.

[Hex]

Hmm I guess. Nonetheless, I don't think the man has ever written a truly bad book - he's far more consistent than most authors.

[taurus]

That`s bad. Still, as long as George R.R. Martin lives, i dont care if all other writers kick off:razz:

[Strings]

Well, as long as George finishes the series. After that he's fair game.

[Sideshow]

Stupid fat Americans writing enthralling series... Stupid heart disease. I put the chance of SoIaF being finished before GRRM dies at around 13%. OTOH, there's every chance it'll end up like Robert Jordan/Wheel of Time: author dies before finishing series, but only after dragging series out with bloated crap so that no-one really cares any more.

[saladin]

Wheel of Time is the most tedious series I have ever attempted to read. Ever.

[GigaFuzz]

Wheel of Time is the most tedious series I have ever attempted to read. Ever.

I've been warned away from it too many times to even consider starting. I'm too much of a completionist and would insist on reading all of them. :(

[saladin]

Speaking of frustrating cliff-hangers, has anyone ever read Patrick Tilly's Amtrack Wars books? Pure pulp fiction, but his sixth book ended in a cliffhanger...19 years ago.

He keeps promising two more books, but they never appear. It's incredibly infuriating.