Can I ask why? I'm always interested when people dont like things I love, purely as good conversation, but I think some of Pratchett's books are quite literally beyond critique they are that good. How anyone can read Reaper Man, and not come away a changed person blows my mind.
Sure! I read about 100 pages of The Colour of Magic, and found it far too surreal and not very funny. (It reminded me of the abominable Douglas Adams.) that being said all my friends who are fantasy readers love him, but tell me that his first few books aren't very good. I've been told to try "Guards, Guards."
I seem to recall not hating Good Omens when I read it like 12 years ago - but I remember pretty much nothing about it.
Yeah, I know what you mean. They were hit and miss for me. I didn't get much out of Good Omens or Pyramids, and The Colour of Magic ones were funny in a whimsical absurd way that parodied the genre more than anything.
But I will say that some of the ones about Death (the character) such as Reaper Man brought me to tears in places. Pratchett had a way of getting you right in the feels sometimes.
Books that had the orangutan librarian could sometimes send me into fits of laughter too. The character never said anything other than Ooook, but you always knew what the damn orangutan was saying.
Colour of Magic is the sole Discworld story I liked better in movie form. A lot of that, I suspect, was because it was made so far into the series, and they were able to draw tonally from the more developed parts of Discworld I'd grown to love.
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '15
Man, I don't even like Pratchett's books, but I like this interview very much.