However, I just read Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies just as we started a Shakespeare unit at school. It was great reading the actual plays and then the Pratchettized versions side by side.
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Deep_Thought wrote:Off the top of my head I think the worst of the lot is Monstrous Regiment. I got fed-up with the overused plot-twist ofIt worked to start off with, and then was repeated about eleventy-jillion times.Spoiler:
Deep_Thought wrote:Off the top of my head I think the worst of the lot is Monstrous Regiment. I got fed-up with the overused plot-twist ofSpoiler:
heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.
heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.
SecondTalon wrote:Deep_Thought wrote:Off the top of my head I think the worst of the lot is Monstrous Regiment. I got fed-up with the overused plot-twist ofSpoiler:
For the record.. that.. uh.. was the point. To take something that's overused but usually only for a single or small handful of characters, and have it apply to practically everyone. To be silly with it.
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PhoenixEnigma wrote:Jumble is either the best or worst Santa ever, and I can't figure out which. Possibly both.
Sandry wrote:Man, my commitment to sparkle motion is waaaaay lower than you are intimating.
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Proverbs 9:7-8 wrote:Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt. So don't bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you.
Hawknc wrote:FFT: I didn't realise Proverbs 9:7-8 was the first recorded instance of "haters gonna hate"
Nat wrote:Best is probably Reaper man, foollowed colsely by night watch. Worst is Unseen academicals (by a wide margin, it really seems like alzheimer's getting to him).
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Not exactly, no. Just not as explicitly mentioned.the_bandersnatch wrote:Spoiler:
heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.
heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.
HungryHobo wrote:
I think it's that while a lot of the older books have clearly been gone over again and again and again draft after draft cleaning things up he can't actually re-read his books as he's writing them any more so we end up with books which feel a lot less polished and without the many layers.
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