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   Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:34:43 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

   I stopped reading Colour of Magic because I just became bored.

   I think it's the three story structure thing. it means there isn't so much of a single story arc thing.

   I liked how he wrote, but I'm not entirely sure I want to read more. He created an interesting world, and he clearly thought about the physics of that world. But I think it has too much silliness and characters accidentally getting out of danger, rather than characters demonstrating real skill.

   Yes, I think I'd like to read about skilful characters in his world.

   But I will try a later book, one of the more popular ones and see how that goes.

   #TerryPratchett

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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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     • diegor

     @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)

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     Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:29:13 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

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     • diegor

     @valhalla To be honest, I saw a lot of clever thinking in Colour of Magic, and it's impressive world building. You can see he's thought a lot about how the discworld works, and even though it's silly, it has its own logic.

     I imagine the later books being better but TCOM wore me out towards the end and I just don't care how it ends.

     @diegor

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