It’s a bit silly, but now, I suppose I don’t want to come to the end of new-to-me Pratchett books. Like Douglas Adams, Octavia Butler, Graham Joyce, Kage Baker, and so many other amazing authors, we lost Terry Pratchett way too soon. Oh, I picked up Night Watch and read it at some point and found it funny enough, but not enough to dive further in, I suppose.
If I start something, I want to be able to finish, you know? Anyhow, as the Discworld universe kept expanding, and I kept failing to leave schooling behind (ahem, grad school, way too much grad school), I kept not reading Terry Pratchett books. I’ve also never found a library that had a full complement of Pratchett books in either physical books or ebooks, or some combination of the two. Could anything else measure up in quite the same way? I wasn’t sure. So Pratchett books had to wait until I finished both high school and college and had more (under-paid) time on my hands. And then of course, it was Good Omens and Small Gods I dipped my toes into first, and wow, are those two books hard to follow. I stuck with Anne McCaffrey’s expanding Pern-scape for another half-decade, among other things. When my brother started pestering the rest of the family about Discworld novels sometime in the early 90’s, it was prime-annoyed-sister time for me to decide that he would not be influencing all of my reading habits and tastes. I have to admit, I’m a bit of a late-comer to Sir Terry.
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