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Re: Science Fiction (was Re: Transit Time to Mars)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:32:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > I do think it's canonical farce, up there with Harvard Lampoon's
> > "Bored of the Rings" and Gaimen/Pratchett's "Good Omens."
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> I can't manage to slog my way through most of the Lampoon stuff. I got about
> three pages farther into "Bored" than I did into "Doon"
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> Good Omens, on the other hand, is one of my all-time favorite books.
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> "A demon who did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards"
A personal favorite here, as well, but it suffers from Pratchett's formerly
widespread problem of creating a problem too big to solve by the end of the
book. That is, the crisis escalates and escalates, then in the course of two
paragraphs he declares it solved and leaps right to resolution without
actually working through the problem. Sort of an unsatisying close. For
other such handlings, check out Mort, Reaper Man, and Sourcery (I think), in
which the huge problem to whose climax we've spent the whole book building,
just disappears through some sort of off-camera action.
Still, Pratchett at his best is among my favorite authors!
Dave!
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