Terry Pratchett.

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Ok, so I love peoples early work, always have. When they are learning the craft they are involved in. Music, Writing everything really. I have the Terry Pratchett's book "Good Omens", and graphic Novels "The Colour of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic", the luggage was my favourite character, but it was an ex who was the real fan, but I read every book he had. But does anyone else think that he is just......well crusing now?

Ok so I lost a bit of faith when the whole Watchman series begain. I loved Rincewind, Death, the Witches, love them all, but the Watchmen, just a big No No to me!

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[ruuger]

I loved Rincewind, Death, the Witches, love them all, but the Watchmen, just a big No No to me!

Agh, blasphemer! :)

But seriously, I think you're the first person I've ever met who likes the Rincewind books but not the Watch books :)

But does anyone else think that he is just......well crusing now?

I don't think Pratchett is cruising as much as he's slowly moving from humour to serious fiction with a bit of satire thrown in. The books are definetely getting darker and more political, especially with the Watch books.

But I have to agree with bogwich in that TP is getting a bit obsessed with Vimes - Vimes is my favourite chracter, but he's starting to get a bit too Vimes, if you understand what I mean, and I think TP will have to kill him soon.

(You know, I just realised that two of the my three Pratchett icons have James Marsters in them. Heh.)

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I think TP perhaps sees too much of himself in Vimes, and therein lies the problem.

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Was just saying that Vimes is a bit of a Mary Sue character myself.

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I loved him exploring the other countiries in the Discworld, but the watch are stuck in Ankh Morpork, and Vimes is too modern. He is also a bit of a Mary Sue, too me. Vimes was TP putting himself into his book, and now he cannot let go.

I loved the exporation, seeing exotic places, and people in the other works, while the watch is a bit like a political story, with a bit of police work thrown in. Read too many of them when I was younger, and it seems to have lost the novelity of the earlier works.