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   valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:34:41 JST valhalla

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   @lydiaconwell I also started to read Pratchett from Colour of Magic, and stopped there for a long time. Then @diegor gave me one of the later books to read and I got hooked.

   My feeling is that in the first two books (The Colour of Magic + The Light Fantastic) he was still learning to write Discworld novels, and it shows a lot. Then Equal Rites starts to feel like Pratchett, except in crayons (the themes are all there, and the style is getting there, but there are still a bit of rough edges). And then everything else is great with no caveats.

   (ok, there is still a bit of a tendency to solve plots with a bit of a Deus ex Machina, but it's there to solve the stuff that is happening, not the important bits about character development)