Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller

Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by inDigiNeous on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:02AM (#15130902)

Well to be honest his more recent books started to be more dull in a way, although I respect deeply his work, especially with the earlier books, but maybe the alzheimer started to have an effect also on his writing. I've read most of his works until Snuff or so, but those 3 - 5 books before that just really didn't had the same magic anymore, so maybe it's for the best.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by SamBam on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:06AM (#15132224)

Absolutely the writing quality had started to diminish -- it was at the point that I just felt sadness, and that I was doing Pratchett a disservice to even read his later books, as I think the Pratchett of 10 years ago wouldn't have wanted them to be written, if he knew.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by jff on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:26AM (#15132922)

Agreed; 'Raising Steam' made me so sad I couldn't finish it (I thought it was a much better story when titled 'Making Money', and even better when it was called 'Going Postal').

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by inDigiNeous on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:02AM (#15146696)

Good to hear, Going Postal was still good in my books, sometime I've pondered should I make an attempt to read those I didn't feel the call to, now I can assure I have no need to read those.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by jff on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:26PM (#15149917)

Making Money is worth reading, still.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by cm2012 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:11AM (#15130936)

I thought Unseen Academicals was his best book.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by c17r on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:51AM (#15132110)

I found Discworld by starting with Unseen Academicals that I picked up at Düsseldorf waiting for my flight home from a business trip. I had it finished by the time the car service dropped me off at home.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by potus_putin on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:16AM (#15130963)

I understand from the Guardian article that the last two books ( and possibly more ) were ghostwritten.

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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by c17r on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:48AM (#15132088)

Terry had Ocular Alzheimer's disease. He "wrote" by either dictating to Rob or using speech recognition software.

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