G&P are at their best when they're not spinning the too-frequent one-line dialog. Those bits would have been better rendered as if a screenplay:returnreturn CROWLEY: ...return A. YOUNG: ...returnreturn They were much better at scene-setting, even the improbable. I suspect a re-read would pay fruit. It's a good thing they take time to set the concept -- what's it like to approach Armageddon -- or I might not have figured it out until the 4 horsemen show up at the airbase. returnreturn There are clever premises all along the way. But, in my edition, with an afterward: Gaimann on Pratchett (and verse vice-a) some of the rationale appears: they did this to make each other laugh. Good job, boys. returnreturn In my most cynical moments, this genre is 'too Inside, too cultish". while i like to belong as much as the next guy, there are some clubs whose initiation fees are just too high. returnreturn after a "Diskworld" last year, it'll be some time before Pratchett pulls ahead of Sinclair Lewis on my "most read" author's list.