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mightybaldking said on October 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

Is it better that Lost Continent or Jingo?

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On balance I’d say it’s on par with Jingo and less good than Lost Continent (which to me is Pratchett experimenting with a different form of storytelling and mostly succeeding).

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This was the first Discworld book I bought in hardcover, having only discovered the series a bit over a year ago. I felt pretty much the same as MGK here. I did buy Wintersmith in paperback today, so that should be good. Love them Feegles.

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Minor quibble, LAST Continent not Lost. But a very good review of the book which did, much like Thud, feel like it was being used to set up things for a future book…

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How did you feel about it having chapters? That’s a big departure for Pratchett — do you feel the format had any effect on the content?

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It’s not that big a departure considering Pratchett’s been working with chapters for several books now – Going Postal and Wintersmith were both chaptered, and I can’t remember if Thud! and Night Watch were offhand but they might have been.

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Thud was not chaptered; I believe Night Watch was not either. I think he puts chapters in the Tiffany Aching books and the Moist books (yes, yes) but no others.

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I’ve been slowly reading through this blog, and though there was many an entry that I felt tempted to comment, I chose this one because, well, it’s Pratchett.
I concur with your review – Making Money was indeed fine, but not stellar. But then again I didn’t find Wintersmith to be anywhere near as good as the first two Tiffany Aching books, which to me are works of genius.
A while ago, I re-read pretty much the whole of Discworld, and was pleasantly surprised to see how much it holds up. Definitely the best books there are the Vimes series, some of the Witches, and for the sheer humour, the Rincewind series.
Now, I will admit that some of his books have left me a bit cold – I was very disappointed by Pyramids and by Hogfather. And Monstrous Regiment, though a fun book, was not a prime example of Pratchett quality.
All in all, I’d say my faves would be Eric, Moving Pictures, Lords and Ladies, Small Gods, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting times, Maskerade, The Last Continent, Carpe Jugulum and Going Postal.
But above these are the best works he has done so far (though Nation comes quite close, it’s that good) : The Truth, Thief of time, The Amazing Maurice and his Amazing Rodents, and of course, Night Watch, the only book ever to make me cry because it was so goddamned well written.
But I digress…
Do I have your permission, Oh Mighty God King, to link your blog to mine own?
All the best!

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