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Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social |
ahem
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Dennis Detwiller
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(Not to mention it's like jumping from reading a precocious twelfth grader's stories to the absolute genius, comedic, empathetic, prose of a master.)
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Library Ogre
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Replace your Hogwarts house with your subseries... are you the Unseen University, the Ankh-Morpork Guards, Death, or the Witches? If you answer Moist Von Lipwig, I will immediately check my wallet. It is a reflex I cannot help.
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Heather McDougal
@wundergrrl.bsky.social
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Also...Diana Wynne Jones ftw!!
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Nate is waking up
@nf1nk.bsky.social
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I bet it would take less than a week to retheme Universal's Harry Potter Land to Ankh-Morpork. Just change some signs and add Hippos to the bridge.
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da_norf
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… to treat people like humans… or dwarves, or trolls, or werewolves, or vampires, or… anything else.
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Dragon Nexus
@dragonnexus.bsky.social
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I got into Pratchett before Hairy Potter was a thing. HP felt lesser as a book even then. Something I'd already out grown. I'm begging HP fans to read more books. Especially Discworld. Best thing about it is you can pretty much jump in anywhere.
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Mark Hillen
@markhillen.bsky.social
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My favourites were the Guards/ Vimes series. Best lessons in human nature, words still with me, what, 30 years later?
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Andy Beaton
@aiabx.bsky.social
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Younger readers might want to start with The Wee Free Men, who are also hilarious to adults.
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notgordonallport
@notgordonallport.bsky.social
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this Is exactly how I found Pratchett, my new friends said ‘I know something better’ when I mentioned Harry Potter
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Mary G Bird
@marebear333.bsky.social
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This! I found the discworld a little late, but wow I am deeply madly in love with these books. More Pratchett is always a wonderful thing. Potter also sucks ass when compared to Vimes, Rincewind, or god help us all Nanny Ogg!
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Stryder
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I think the trick is to find the right book since they all hit so differently. I'm quite partial to Small Gods myself but anything Rincewind is gonna be a ride.
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Jim Myers(he/him)
@jimmolemaster.bsky.social
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It has Death. And He's really quite a pleasant fellow fascinated by humans. And he's a cat person
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Steve with a Q
@stevewithaq.bsky.social
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Pratchett did even better than that. He managed to treat humans like people.
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Farren Croí-Spéir 🦊🇮🇪🍥🎮
@farrenskyheart.bsky.social
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Which is a good recommendation to start? Mine was the Hogfather story. Especially the movie with Baldrick in it
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Roz Under Pressure
@rozunderpressure.bsky.social
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What book should I start with? No one ever gave me an answer to that beyond "Not the first one, tho" and everybody else gave conflicting ideas...
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Renee Perry
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I want to echo and emphasize the Diane Wynn’s-Jones which are smart and written for a young audience. Much as I love Pratchett, they are grown up books.
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regularJim
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Not only are there 41 of these books, 5 of them are Tiffany Aching novels that should be in the hands of any young reader looking for a book about a young person learning about magic.
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