Speaking of Pratchett; I recently re-read the last continent and I was amazed at how there was a mention of drag queens (probably alluding to Priscilla; Queen of the Desert?) but it was handled very tastefully, no obvious/lazy jokes.
This struck me since most media from 20 years back hasn’t aged nearly so gracefully.
Between that and your comment I’m starting to realise that Terry Pratchett was probably a very wise very kind man who happened to write funny books. Which makes me so happy because the bromeliad trilogy were the first books that really got me into reading as a child.
yeah he really is incredible, you would think across forty one books (and that’s just the ones from discworld) in the time that he came from there would be at least a couple bad takes but he never misses.
i started mort as my first from him and got halfway through it but misplaced it :(
think I’m gonna get it on my kindle i really love his personification of death as a kind being who loves cats and desperately wants to understand humans haha
Speaking of Pratchett; I recently re-read the last continent and I was amazed at how there was a mention of drag queens (probably alluding to Priscilla; Queen of the Desert?) but it was handled very tastefully, no obvious/lazy jokes.
This struck me since most media from 20 years back hasn’t aged nearly so gracefully.
Between that and your comment I’m starting to realise that Terry Pratchett was probably a very wise very kind man who happened to write funny books. Which makes me so happy because the bromeliad trilogy were the first books that really got me into reading as a child.
I should re-read the discord series 🙂
yeah he really is incredible, you would think across forty one books (and that’s just the ones from discworld) in the time that he came from there would be at least a couple bad takes but he never misses.
i started mort as my first from him and got halfway through it but misplaced it :(
think I’m gonna get it on my kindle i really love his personification of death as a kind being who loves cats and desperately wants to understand humans haha