Terry Pratchett was fantasy fiction's Kurt Vonnegut, not its Douglas Adams * For Our Consideration * The A.V. Club - http://www.avclub.com/article...
Mar 13, 2015
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"Of course, "emotional power" was never Adams' goal. […] As a devotee of P.G. Wodehouse, Adams was a master of farce, a believer in finding the most perfectly crafted line in any given situation, the most expertly set up joke. It's that distinction, which widened as Pratchett grew into his strengths as a storyteller, that most clearly puts the lie to the idea that Sir Terry was "the fantasy Douglas Adams." In truth, his work has far more in common with that of some of fiction's great humanists, like G.K. Chesterton and Kurt Vonnegut."
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"And the man's talent at comedy writing just can't be discounted (the one place where the parallels to Douglas Adams are dead-on accurate). It's easy to use "funny" as a dismissive adjective, to give in to the knee-jerk reaction to call the Discworld novels "more" than just funny books. But Discworld is great because it's funny, not in spite of it."
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