Re: How Very Interesting!

On Jul 4, 11:05�am, d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David DeLaney) wrote:
Bill Patterson <WHPatter...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think Pratchett might have been in that group if there had been a
single book or even a few books that could be singled out from the
general excellence of his oeuvre. �Everybody has favorites -- if I had
to single out one Pratchett book, it might be Wee Free Men, even
though it's not one of my personal favorites.

Having reread it earlier today, I think I still rank it below Night Watch..
But I entirely see what could make someone have it as #1. It's sort of HARD
to get them all far enough apart to see which one's on top.

I think you may need to read Atlas Shrugged and make your own judgment.

I may someday. But ... if you could see my to-read piles, you'd understand
why that day may end up being after I'm safely dead.

That start with the second book thing wouldn't work very well for
Hitchhiker's Guide, which I have loved in all its incarnations (except
the movie, which was only fair as movies go (despite a few yocks) but
wouldn't have made me want to read the books.

I did notice that you don't want to start Jordan as far up as book 4, which
pretty much leaves 2 or 3 ... but that either one of those two _could_ work.
(After all, he later wrote a prequel to #1... and C.S. Lewis did it better
anyway.)

Dave
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Night Watch is a damned good book -- but I think you have to have
familiarity with the characters and situations for its full impact to
come through.
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