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I Miss Terry Pratchett
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- xosc 5mo agoI'm sure terry pratchett, were he alive, would not appreciate the ai gif on this otherwise interesting article
- wizzwizz4 5mo agoIt's hotlinked from the AI company's website, so it'll be gone in 6 months.
- st3phvee 5mo agoI also suspect Terry Pratchett would have had a lot to say about this sentence: "Pratchett’s [pocket editions] were small, fat, slightly battered, and printed on a kind of paper that already looked guilty." And this one: "It had Heroes, capital H, walking grimly towards their Destiny across a landscape that smelled of dwarves." Some odd turns of phrase there that are grammatically correct, but... you know...
- vintagedave 5mo agoI thought those sentences were examples of excellent writing. They don't sound AI to me - is that the implication, that it is? And the bit about 'Heroes' reminds me of his descriptions making fun of heroes in the stories about Cohen the Barbarian.
- Avicebron 5mo agoThat's what I think the comment meant.. I was trying to put my finger on the word (other than slop) for the sort of low-effort, gimmicky pastiche that LLM's enable..but it might not exist yet. Giving objects interiority is a very Pratchett move.
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- astrange 5mo agoIt sounds very AI. Current AIs' ideas of good writing involve weird metaphors, references to sensing things you can't sense, and tricolons.
- rogual 5mo agoI'm really surprised to see everyone praising the article. It's... it's slop, isn't it? > And then there are the memories [...] that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs. > Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most, put it this way: > "Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture." He "put it this way", in the exact same words you just used? Also, he knew more about furniture than most? What? Why? > "Mathieu and I had read every Pratchett the school library would admit to owning, plus several it would not." This has the cadence of a witty sentence unless you're paying attention and realize it makes no sense. > “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” > Nine words. A complete cosmology. Most physics departments would settle for that. It's eight words, and the thing about physics departments makes no sense. > The Author, refusing to let the Narrator off the hook. Again, cute sentence, unless you're paying attention and you realize it doesn't mean anything.
- grahamnorton39 5mo agoI just sort of subconsciously glossed over these, thinking they were very clever jokes I was too dense to get. Upon re- reading — yeah, it’s quite bizarre. It’s nailed the cadence, but completely butchered the content. The bit that sounds the most AI out of all of this is “A complete cosmology. Most physics departments would settle for that.” It sounds absolutely like something Claude would output. “Most physics departments”? Why would any physics department be so taken by these eight (or nine) words that they’d choose to stop doing physics? If some were, though, why not all of them? Are there contrarian physics departments that wouldn’t want to adopt the very trendy eight-to-nine word Grand Unified Theory of Everything that’s all the rage nowadays? Argh.
- rogual 5mo agoThe funny thing is, Pratchett would have a field day with this. I can imagine it now, one of his golems starts writing these bizarre things and becomes a literary sensation in Ankh-Morpork, and there's like one actual writer, William de Worde or someone, who's just like, but it doesn't mean anything! But nobody is listening to him.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoHave you seen his computer setup?
- simonw 5mo agoLike many Pratchett fans I have not read the last published Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown, because then I will have read them all. The author of this piece hasn't read the Witches books! I'm jealous, they still have so much great Pratchett to get through.
- disgruntledphd2 5mo agoI sortof feel that the Witches might be the best, but then I think about the Watch, and I'm conflicted.
- zabzonk 5mo agoYou can't beat (literally) Esme Weatherwax and Gytha Ogg. Magrat is great too, particularly in "Lords & Ladies".
- medwards666 5mo agoI read it, and I cried like a baby. Still do whenever I reach for it.
- zabzonk 5mo agoI didn't read the Tiffany Aching books for quite a while because I thought they were aimed at adolescents. Perhaps they are, but they are also full of Pratchett humour and characters. Don't miss out on them!
- eplatzek 5mo agoI recently ready through the Tiffany Aching set and adored her.
- redfloatplane 5mo agoI really wish we had gotten Prachett on LLMs. I often wonder what he would have written about today's world. A side note, if the author reads this: I really like your site and its design, but I find the font really difficult to read. (Edit: switching off `-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;` makes it significantly more legible for me (Safari on a 110dpi panel)
- simonw 5mo ago"Feet of Clay", his book about golems written in 1996, was about AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_of_Clay_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_of_Clay_(novel)
- redfloatplane 5mo agoFunny, I would have said that was one of my favourites but it hadn't occurred to me at all that it's such a direct line to today's world! Thanks for the suggestion, I look forward to reading it again with that in mind! (One of my favourite things about the Discworld books is that you can often read the same books completely differently. My partner and I often compare our thoughts on the various books and we often have disparate ideas of the concepts. They're so deep!)
- tsumnia 5mo agoI say Feet of Clay and the Hogfather should be mandatory reads for anyone involved in AI. Feet for the obvious alignment of golem to AI, but while Hogfather is a Christmas story I think the wish granting machine, how it was able to produce anything, and how Death disabled it are very much aligned with how Gen AI can feel sometimes. Last summer I tested Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude with a simple question: "Do you believe in the Hogfather? This is a Yes or No question." Yes its a text prediction model, but I wanted to see how and what KIND of text each LLM was trained on. Grok and Gemini said No. ChatGPT said Yes. Claude said Yes, then broke the rules and also said: "(In the spirit of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, where believing in small lies like the Hogfather helps us believe in the big ones like justice and mercy - and because the sun came up this morning, didn't it?)" That's why I like Claude the most.
- vintagedave 5mo agoWhat a beautifully written article. > What I miss, selfishly, is the next book. There were always going to be more. > What I miss, less selfishly, is whatever Pratchett-shaped object is supposed to be reaching teenagers now, and isn’t. I feel the first keenly. I have put off a re-read of Pratchett for several years now: I want to forget as much as possible, to have the pleasure of discovery again. But I have read them all so many times I know it will all be familiar. I don't know what teenagers read today. I hope Pratchett is still there. Even as an adult, I found his writing encouraged a kind of kindness in me. He had a way of understanding human nature and, with zero preaching, making you consider how people different from you felt. I still remember when I encountered Cheery the first time and how beautifully Pratchett navigated the intricacies of gender. I was an adult who already believed in kindness, with friends who have their own experiences of gender and from whom I learned and who I tried to support, yet he still taught me something.
- kuerbel 5mo agoI don't know about male teenagers but teen girls read copious amounts of a genre called romantasy.
- rogual 5mo agoIt's not remotely beautifully written. It reads as if someone prompted "Write an article called I Miss Terry Pratchett, and write it in his style." It's full of attempted Pratchettisms that, if you're paying attention, make no sense. It's on a blog where almost every post is about AI. It's the opposite of Terry's warm, intelligent, humanist writing and an insult to his name.
- N_Lens 5mo agoJust recently read 'Making Money' and it was a blast!
- bombcar 5mo agoMaking Money is more instructive on the realities of finance than many entry-level college courses.
- foobarbecue 5mo agoI find this font surprisingly hard to read (on my phone). Is it just me?
- crawshaw 5mo agoMy eight year old found a Terry Pratchett book of mine on the shelf the other day. He is a little too young to read them today but I realized I get to enjoy Pratchett all over again through him.
- abstractbill 5mo agoMy 15 year old is devouring them right now. She pauses dozens of times every day to tell me the best jokes. I love it.
- ninalanyon 5mo agoWhat makes him too young to read them? You could point him at the children's books too such as Carpet People or the Tiffany Aching books.
- redwall_hp 5mo agoSince some people seem to have missed it: the final Discworld book, and Pratchett's deliberate "signing off," is the last Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown), not Raising Steam. I can't really say much about the central theme without giving away a disc-shaking change to the world, because it's about that event and the next generation (Tiffany) carrying on. It's a very sad story, but also meant to be encouraging, and clearly intended to be his last book.
- preinheimer 5mo agoI discovered Terry Pratchett's books my summer in New York. I was a university student, and I'd gotten a job at eDonkey doing technical support. I lived in a crappy apartment in Brooklyn (this was circa 2004 or so), and worked near Union Square. Quite a few days after work, or just on a weekend adventure I'd go to a bookstore a few blocks south of work and grab another Discworld book, and a slice of pizza from my favourite pizza shop labelled "Rays". I'd read some in a park, and explore. I didn't know a lot of people in the city, filling days with Terry Pratchett was a great joy.
- yurishimo 5mo agoWhat a wonderful article! Despite being a huge fantasy fan, Pratchett has not yet come across my nightstand. I think that changes soon! I’m going to stop in my local bookstore and see if they have anything. Regarding the authors point about current authors, I think Brandon Sanderson is really trying his best to live up to the mantle left behind by the great fantasy authors of the 20th century. Not all of his books that I’ve read have been bangers but considering he writes multiple novels a year across a wide variety of fantasy and sci-fi subgenres, that’s somewhat to be expected. I know reading isn’t as popular now that screens have become so engrained into our daily lives, but there are absolutely kids out there getting stuck into books and it’s never been a better time to be a writer given the access of the internet and the ability for an author to promote their work and showcase their storytelling creativity through the medium of social media.
- Aaargh20318 5mo agoI still haven’t read Raising Steam. One last time to experience a new Discworld novel, I’m saving it for a rainy day.
- ipeev 5mo agoThat font is too annoying to read. Probably fine for AIs thou.
- mistic92 5mo agoI have read Discworld series 3 times and I'm thinking to read it all again. I wish there were movies based on Discworld but done right.
- medwards666 5mo agoThere were a couple of cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall that were _really_ well done. (Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music)
- ChrisMarshallNY 5mo agoI think the three mini-series did a fairly decent job. Pratchett was involved (and appeared) in all three. The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic Hogfather Going Postal The Watch was kind of unWatchable for me; which is sad, because I like the actors.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoBecause Pratchett (any of them) were not involved with it.
- ohmahjong 5mo agoMan, I really miss Terry Pratchett too. He has been my favourite author for as long as I can remember (maybe Roald Dahl before that?). It helped having such a volume of work to go through at the time in my life where I was reading the most. I swear he has the most re-readable books too; so many small details and jokes that would be missed on a first pass. GNU Terry Pratchett.
- meander_water 5mo agoLovely sentiment in the article, which was unfortunately AI generated. Can we start tagging titles in HN with [AI-generated] or something? I know some people have no problem with it, but it might help others (like me) to steer clear
- password4321 5mo agoThese days I'm more thankful that so much of HN is conversation here by interesting people based solely on the article title alone.
- tejohnso 5mo agoHow do you know it was AI generated? Didn't see any reason to assume so, and I enjoyed it, plus it introduced me to this apparently great author. So, AI generated or not, I'm glad it was posted.
- rogual 5mo agoMan I would love that tag. As an enjoyer of Pratchett's witty prose, seeing this is just sad.
- rogual 5mo agoIf we had this tag it might also stop the comments from turning into another Great AI Debate every... single... time... It's lovely to see some Pratchett on HN, a nice chance to talk about our favourite Discworld books, but then the top comment is just some boring AI hater.
- johndhi 5mo agoHuge fan as a kid and enjoyed even the disc world computer game. But when I pick it up now I find the writing too ponderous to enjoy.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5mo agoI have everything he wrote (which includes a number of non-Discworld books, like Johnny and the Bomb, and The Bromeliad Trilogy). I didn't especially like the Science of Discworld books that much, but he didn't really write them. One character that showed up in every one of his Discworld books -to a point- was Death. After Sir Terry got his diagnosis, I noticed that Death stopped showing up in the books.
- Procrastes 5mo agoThese were the last posts from Sir Terry's Twitter account, March 12th 2015: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The end.
- shmoil 5mo agoThe font on this website is unreadable. I read the first 20 or so books in the Discworld series, but I cannot read this website.
- st3phvee 5mo agoThe author has since changed the main body font to a slightly more readable serif, but decided (for some reason) to make it comically tiny compared to the size of his headers.
- eeeeeie 5mo agoThe really sad thing is that his later works reveal the decline in his mental faculties. They're not anywhere near as clever and incisive as his earlier books.
- sbinnee 5mo agoGranny might not be for teenagers but she is the wise for adults
- noir_lord 5mo agoIn a very literal sense I wouldn’t have been the man I am if 9 year old me hadn’t stumbled onto a Discworld novel in the late 80’s. Pratchett’s essential humanism shone (and sometimes shouted) through every page and satirically he was biting but never bitter. He is without doubt and far away my favourite writer (apologies to Iain M Banks though I’m sure he’d have understood). I’ve re-read Hogfather every Christmas since it came out. I was an unsure 17 year old who was uncertain how life would turn out, Now I read it as someone with a family and clear sense of who I am, neither of which 17 year old me would have quite believed possible. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.
- Hfuffzehn 5mo agoI miss him too. Even though I had the experiences he discribes with Douglas Adams first before discovering Terry Pratchett.
- dosinga 5mo agoWhat's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
- kordite 5mo agoGNU Terry Pratchett - https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
- sometimelurker 5mo agogoing postal was a great book. thanks for the reminder that it exist, I'm gunna go find it now
- DoneWithAllThat 5mo agoSky One’s 2010 adaptation (two part miniseries) was excellent by the way. Highly recommended.
- futurecat 5mo agoAs a teenager, I found Terry Pratchett’s email (in a newsgroup IIRC?) and sent him a thank you note. I told him how much his books made me love reading. He answered me with a short and sweet email. It was an important internet moment for me!
- totetsu 5mo agoAs a pre-teen i sent him an embarrassingly pretentious and ungrammatical fan email and was horrified to find a reply from him years later when migrating mail providers.
- ninalanyon 5mo agoYou can't leave it there! What did he say? Was he polite, helpful, amusing, amused, etc.?
- GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo agoI have just started listening to Discworld during the drive with my Mum as we visit her Mum on the weekends. She enjoyed Mort more than I thought she would (though we also did the first Master and Commander book which she also quite enjoyed, so I guess you never can tell with some people) and now we've started Going Postal which so far I think is probably more directly "funny", closer in tone to Guards Guards which was the only one I'd read. I am also halfway through Old Gods on my own time. What I find interesting is how different in tone his books can feel. It is a bit of a sprawling question on what to read though, besides "all of it" which is often not so helpful. One day I will trick her into listening to a Le Guin.
- Tuna-Fish 5mo agoWhile you can read any of his books out of sequence, I strongly recommend following one of the paths here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0_%28cropped%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworl... While none of the novels are impossible to read without having read the previous ones, many of them build on the themes and the characters that came before, and some of the magic is lost without knowing what came before.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoFollowing that guide for first reading is probably the biggest mistake I have made in my 42 years of being alive. First time you read it should be in publishing order.
- simonw 5mo agoI think it's OK to skip the first two. Those two Rincewind novels were when the Discworld books were parodies of the fantasy genre curca ~1980. If you aren't aware of the tropes of that genre the jokes don't hit as well. From Equal Rites onwards Terry realized that the Discworld was much more interesting as a lens to reflect on human society. That idea kept him going for the rest of the series.
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- jerleth 5mo agoHah, so different from my experience - when I was young I was looking more for traditional fantasy and did not enjoy a Discworld book I picked up. Now that I am in my middle 40s I just got a couple of his books and I am enjoying the Colour of Magic so much right now, having a real blast!
- baq 5mo agoI’m wailing in sadness here knowing that I can’t ever be you, early forties and reading Pratchett for the first time in my life. Alas. Otherwise no regrets reading him 25 years ago, none at all.
- zulux 5mo agoRe-reading deep books when you're older is also a joy: You've forgotten a lot, and you appreciate different things. The Minas Tirith part of the ending of LOTR hits hard as a 50-year-old man, but as a kid, it was just a lot of pomp. Hope you get a good reread sometime.
- Arubis 5mo agoI am a simple man. I see Terry Pratchett on HN and I share Venkat Rao’s lovely essay at https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules.
- spicyusername 5mo agoMan, people in the Bay will find a way to over intellectualize anything.
- Arubis 5mo agoTrue, though if you're gonna get bent out of shape about overintellectualizing something, "reading books" is probably gonna be a tough sell.
- vintagedave 5mo agoStill reading but this looks an excellent article. Why not submit it here? I'd upvote! (I would submit it myself but I feel that'd be stealing karma :D)
- Arubis 5mo agoBy all means go for it! I’m averaging 250 karma per annum; if I were going to put effort into that it would’ve already happened by now
- lelanthran 5mo agoIt just struck me that a likely end-result of AIs are the Discworld elves: > Elves have no proper imagination or real emotions, and therefore such things fascinate them. Because they cannot create they steal musicians and artists [... snipped ...] Even if an elf is, for reasons of its own, trying to be nice, its lack of understanding of humans mean there's always something "off" about it.
- simonw 5mo agoWow. Hard to believe most of this was written 3 decades ago.
- jms429 5mo agoI can't read the last book. Growing up, I was always 6 months to a year away from another Terry Pratchett book. I don't want to live in a world where there is no more of his books left for me to read.
- Tuna-Fish 5mo ago... It's better that way. I cried reading it, because it was very clear from the text how far the disease had progressed.
- rogual 5mo agoHow to get your AI company's blog to No. 1 on Hacker News: 1. Pick an author nerds like. 2. Tell Claude "Write an article about Terry Pratchett, in his style." 3. Don't even fix the faux-witty phrases that, upon closer inspection, make zero sense, like "Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most", or "Most physics departments would settle for that." or "The Author, refusing to let the Narrator off the hook". 4. Bask in the praise for your wonderful writing.
- sph 5mo agoFlagged, 227 upvotes. The internet is truly dead
- Quarrelsome 5mo agois this just slander or are you basing this on something? I feel like the only way to make an AI slop universe worse is to accuse people of using AI when they're not. So I worry we might be doing that is all...
- bradrn 5mo agoI found this comment pretty convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413
- Quarrelsome 5mo agomaybe but its not like people don't also do these things (erroneous sentences, weird fluff). I mean editors exist specifically to slap that shit out of writers. That said, it's mildly compelling. I just fear that our future is gonna be full of this and the idea of the false positive is so brutal that I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt.
- antihipocrat 5mo agoPerhaps we end up demanding no doubt. Human only community meet ups to discuss and share ideas, music and art. No recording allowed. The Internet becomes primarily a passive stream of information vetted by government and Mega Corps, just like the TVs of old. Except for the nifty buy with one click button of course
- tuzemec 5mo agoSo many good memories... reading the Light Fantastic for first time, getting Eric in that big format with many illustrations, the witches, Vimes and the guards during my uni years, Mort, Maurice, and so on and so on... and then... the profound melancholy in the Tiffany Aching books that brings tears to my eyes...
- prmoustache 5mo agoTerry Pratchett has had a lot of success with french people and at least some of the credits should go to Patrick Couton who made an extraordinary work in the translation of the discworld series, doing a great job at maintaining most of the nuances and adapt jokes from the english version.
- gorgmah 5mo agoYeah this was the way I originally started to read his books. The translations were amazing. When I later started to read the originals, I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to understand: the jokes are really designed for native speakers in a lot of ways, and the vocabulary isn't that simple
- YeGoblynQueenne 5mo agoYeah, I miss Terry Pratchett too, but what I miss even most is reading an article and not wondering how much of it was written by AI. Imagine if Terry Pratchett was born in the 2000's and wrote in the 2020's. Well, he wouldn't. That's the thing. Imagine all the future Discworlds we'll never read because nobody ever writes anything anymore, because they've given up, and even if they did write there's so few chances to publish anyway, even before AI. When there is clearly a huge demand for great stories and writing like Terry Pratchett's then why is it so hard to make a living out of it? And what happens now we made it even harder?
- singpolyma3 5mo agoWe've not had an economy that rewarded doing things people want or need within my lifetime. Possibly we never did
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5mo agoWait, that doesn't make sense. Are you saying you don't want or need any man-made thing? I assure you, many, many people were rewarded for designing, building, and selling the things you need and want to live your modern life.
- pastel8739 5mo agoHowever, I think it’s true that many more people were rewarded (likely even more) for things that people do not want. Facebook, etc
- singpolyma3 5mo agoIndeed I do need such things. The fact that reward does not accrue to those who provide it feels strange
- atrus 5mo agoIs the next Terry Pratchett not writing because AI exists, or because they'll just get accused of being AI? This is a little like saying no one will ever paint anymore because cameras exist. It might be harder to make a living off art now (which...debatable), but at no point, ever, was it easy.
- pflenker 5mo agoPratchett introduced the concept of active laziness to me. One of his characters is so lazy that he’s working out frequently because he is too lazy carrying around excess weight all the time. That has stuck with me, and a lot of things I do both in my professional and personal life can be attributed to this: I, too, am very actively lazy.
- Bender 5mo agoHave all his fans added the X-Clacks-Overhead header to their personal web daemons? [1][2] 2 has the how-to's Or perhaps quietly hid it as an Easter egg in a development environment? "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken." - Going Postal, Chapter 4 prologue [1] - https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about [2] - http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
- cubefox 5mo agoAfter Terry Pratchett and later my grandmother died from it, I'm a bit scared of Alzheimer's. There is a lot of evidence that shingles vaccines (particularly Shingrix) reduce dementia risk: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=shingles https://hn.algolia.com/?q=shingles Furthermore, there was recently a study (published in Nature) suggesting that lithium deficiency could be a cause, since lithium orotate (a compound that reaches the brain) prevented it in a mouse model of Alzheimer's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825326 This also fits with the old observation that regions with more lithium in the water supply tend to have fewer cases of Alzheimer's. So I now take lithium orotate capsules (with 1mg of elemental lithium) as a daily supplement. I will also get the Shingrix vaccine soon, even though my health insurance doesn't pay for it (it only does so for older adults), but it isn't that expensive.
- hkt 5mo agoWeirdly, I picked up Night Watch just yesterday
- arvidkahl 5mo agoThe weirdest thing about this article, slop, part-slop, or not, is that even the memory of reading Pretchett when I was younger immediately brought me back into a different state of mind. Even the phrases that don't make sense and the obvious signals of AI writing, like miscounted words, didn't pull me out of the reverie and the reflection of the time when everything that was written came from the mind of a human. I've never thought about it like this before, but the divide between digital natives and digital naives might be minuscule compared to the divide between people who read the works of other humans and those who constantly live in fear of reading a hallucination.
- GlenTheMachine 5mo agoI am firmly convinced that, in the long course of time, Pratchett will be recognized as a modern Shakespeare.
- allthetime 5mo agoI miss human writing. Well I don’t, because I still read it. And don’t waste my time on “authors” who don’t respect their readers and are just farming attention with machine generated content.
- rf15 5mo agoThree observations on people: 1. They talk too much (and thanks to llms now more than ever) 2. They observe too little 3. They sit too comfortably
- EgorKolds 5mo agoI’ve never read Pratchett, but the article gave me strong Douglas Adams vibes. I haven’t read many books though.
- Atiscant 5mo agoMy wife and I are very different people. She is intuitive, involved in people, in the moments. I am slow, considering, post-hoc. We converge on Pratchett. We both read all the books, and been through all audiobooks (both new anf old). It’s become shared metaphors and a common frame of reference. We both have have a tendency to return to one or another of the series once or twice a year. I would have loved more, but I am deeply grateful for what we got.
- eplatzek 5mo agoThis felt like a human wrote it to me. It was weird and private. It didn't feel like slop. It felt too niche to be slop. Is there slop by the author or the site?