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Can anybody redpill me on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series?
It recently came to my attention that my mother was a big fan of the series, despite her apparent disdain for most fantasy. She never understood the popularity of the Tolkien fantasy universe, or why harry potter was as big as it was, etc. which is just confusing to me now that I have learnt this.
From my understanding, the series is more comedy focused? Though the fantastical elements seem pretty 'out-there'. Am I alone in seeing this as strange?
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>>8410599
Started as a straightforward parody of D&D-style generic fantasy, developed its own setting, still with lots of comedy and genre parody. Sense of humour is a lot like Douglas Adams but with more heart and less brain.
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>>8410599
The redpill is accepting that it gets samey after two or three books, specially between same protagonist entries.
Rincewind in Australia. Rincewind in China. The Egypt one lacked Rincewind, but it could have been Rincewind There too.
Still entertaining overall I guess.
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You should read the first few, they're decent (for comedic fantasy). It gets a little stale later but it's a fun ride at first.
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>>8410603
>Sense of humour is a lot like Douglas Adams but with more heart and less brain.
That's really what Adams needed.
Pratchett seemed to think of it as a third way to literary fantasy separate from magical realism (although he didn't put it in such wanky terms). For the shear amount of work he produced the quality is pretty decent overall too, as is the merchandise. And his YA stuff is very good. It's not high literature but in many ways it's not a million miles off Pynchon either. You can tell he had a lot of love for both fantasy genre fiction and just writing in general.
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