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Weirdly, while the themes here are classic and a massive part of our national (and international?) sci-fi and comedy consciousness, I am not actually a fan of the writing here. The story straddles comedy and sci-fi, of course, but as the years go on, I find myself less of a fan of cross-overs there, and I enjoy my sci-fi as plain old sci-fi with no comedy.

And who knows when I actually read it?!

Took me a good few times to get into this, but that's true of some of the stuff that now sticks in my mind as the best fantasy I know.

That said, tho, I later tried to get into sequels etc, and really struggles there too - this whole series just didn't stick with me.

With fantasy, I sometimes struggle with character names: maybe cultural variations in readers are just too hard to make this work universally, but I could never take Pug seriously, because of his name. (Relatedly, High Lord Kevin in the Thomas Covenant series suffers similarly.)

Very much guessing when I read this.

Recommendation from @hengymrohebwlad@mstdn.social.

Recommendation from @hengymrohebwlad@mstdn.social.

Recommendation from @hengymrohebwlad@mstdn.social.

Recommendation from @hengymrohebwlad@mstdn.social.

Recommendation from @MagpieLaughs@toot.community.

Recommendation from @MagpieLaughs@toot.community.

I have no idea why this book is so popular - terrible, twisted grammar in the writing, and a storyline that is tortured in its length.

Writing nowhere as good as I had hoped.

Maybe I've been spoiled by other writers.

Writing nowhere near as good as I had hoped.

Maybe I've been spoiled by other writers.