What I love about his work -- well, aside from everything -- is that he consistently gets better with time; his work isn't stale, he's clearly not bored with his creation, and his ability to twine a number of subplots together has also become so seamless it's just sheer joy.
YES! Exactly. While I enjoy early Pratchett (well, not a huge fan of Rincewind, but...), I truly love later Pratchett. Thief of Time, Carpe Jugulum, and Night Watch all left me in a state of...awe, almost, and I had to go back and read what I had not-quite-missed before.
One of the interesting things about Pratchett is that his characters seem to evolve not just in the books, but between them as well. It's something I only noticed when I went back and reread each book in the Watch series, but the Sam Vimes of Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms have interesting, subtle differences (which, of course, I cannot detail at this time). And this makes sense, though in another writer, I might find it disconcerting.
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Date: 2004-09-28 07:20 pm (UTC)YES! Exactly. While I enjoy early Pratchett (well, not a huge fan of Rincewind, but...), I truly love later Pratchett. Thief of Time, Carpe Jugulum, and Night Watch all left me in a state of...awe, almost, and I had to go back and read what I had not-quite-missed before.
One of the interesting things about Pratchett is that his characters seem to evolve not just in the books, but between them as well. It's something I only noticed when I went back and reread each book in the Watch series, but the Sam Vimes of Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms have interesting, subtle differences (which, of course, I cannot detail at this time). And this makes sense, though in another writer, I might find it disconcerting.