What do you do if you run out of Pratchetts

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This has, sadly happened to me. As a book my mother read to me when I was five would say " 'What to do! What to do!' cried the engineer" What is the solution?Why am I here? Sorry I had a sudden urge to put that there, even though i already know the answer as to being 42. I need someone to confide in, someone to give me advise!:eek:
 
Read it in a different language :D if I have to judge on covers, I'd say you better pick up the Chinese ones:

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I agree with all three of Nesa's suggestions, and I recommend Jasper Fforde the highest :)

Also, the re-reading has merit, you're bound to see things that you didn't the first time!
 
Joel007 said:
I agree with all three of Nesa's suggestions, and I recommend Jasper Fforde the highest :)

Also, the re-reading has merit, you're bound to see things that you didn't the first time!
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Holt and the Rankin agreed, but I don't like Fforde, could not get on with him after he had copied a saying or phrase from one of Rankin's books, in fact IMOP one book was very similar.:(
 
Yes Rankin is one of the funiest author's I've read for a while, never read Holt although a person I no longer speak to kept trying to get me to read him, must try it soon.

There was a chap called Asprin (cant remmebr his second name) who wrote I think one or two about a group called Phule's Company.
 
Holt is one of my favourite authors
Paint Your Dragon is excellent and like many of Pratchett's works, has the ability to make the reader suspend disbelief without any effort, much like Douglas Adams.
Faust Among Equals also introduces some fantastic characters that I can't get enough of.
 
Oh yes, I hadn't even thought about that... The Hitchhiker trilogy of five is Pratchett-level but then set in sci-fi.
 
anirban_82 said:
This might sound like blasphemy, especially for a first time poster, but doesn't anyone find Adams a little too loose ? I mean I read up to part three, but the storytelling and the plot, I felt, was not as tight as Pratchett. A little rambling, if you know what I mean.
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I find Adams relentlessly cynical. Not in his subject matter but in his utter contempt for his readers which becomes more and more obvious as the series progresses.

I like the first three books of Rankin's ever-expanding Brentford Trilogy. The fourth one was OK but since then it has been a serious case of diminishing returns. His other books I find just plain silly.
 
I've read 1 Fford, but both my sister and I have failed to find any more in our vague vicinity. I think we've ordered some on Amazon. I've also started rereading them, this time in order, but I can't read during exams!!:( I begun
a Holt and a Adams a while ago, but I somehow haven't got there yet.
 
Tried Holt

Holt a bit of a disappointment - Blue Skies.

What was missing was the Satire - this was just fantasy (imaginative at times true) but without the human - which is paradoxical given the setting in the real world - strange how El. Prat can be much more relevant on the Disc!

Fforde next.

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