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>>9957945
F.

Why does /lit/ love Fantasy Douglas Adams so much while hating Real Douglas Adams?

I get not wanting them published, and not wanting some shithead descendant doing a Christopher Tolkien/ Herbert thing on them.

But its a shame to destroy something that may be of interest to future writers and biographers. Could have just been kept in an achieve hat the family give specific access to.

>>9957945
>for ever

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>>9957945
who cares Mort was the only good thing he ever wrote anyway

>>9957970
I could see if maybe Prachett didn't want them published because his Alzheimer's were effecting the quality of his writing. But if the stories about the Sheperd's Crown are true than I don't see the point.

>>9957962
This is literally the first time I've ever seen him mentioned here. Although, maybe I just tune those out.

>>9957945
I wish I could read them, but I also understand why, as an author, you wouldn't want anyone to see your unfinished works.

>>9957945
Good for him. His writing was slipping in his later years, so it's for the best.

Fuck, DW was such a big part of my childhood. RIP.

>>9957945
>I save about twenty drafts — that's ten meg of disc space — and the last one contains all the final alterations.
>Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped.

The absolute madman, to the last.

>>9957962
I like Douglas Adams.

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>>9957978
Mort isn't even the best of the Death novels my guy.

>>9958239
It's a genius move. It guaranteed that his last act would be something funny.

>>9958298
This.

It's just the continentals hating him for being correct.

>>9957970

Some greedy nephew or whoever inherits it years down the line will try to cash in, better it goes out like this

>>9957962
I think Douglas Adams surpasses Pratchett in every single way. Does /lit/ in general really hate Adams? I've never noticed

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>>9959714
I think it's more that people here don't have a sense of humor, or think that all books need to be some massively ambitious redefining of the modern novel. He's a very solid writer, and much more clever and engaging than most genre writers.

>>9957978
HHa that image is hilarious. What is up with the bread?

>>9962405
No he isn't, he's a limp-wristed liberal peabrain.

>>9960196
I used to think Adams was really unique. Then I read Little Dorrit. Adams may be zany, but his fundamental satire isn't as good as Dickens's with the Circumlocution Office.

>>9957999
> if the stories about the Sheperd's Crown are true
What stories?

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>>9957945

>Wallace in his final hours had "tidied up [his] manuscript so that his wife could find it.

Who had the better approach?

>>9963655
Pratchett, at lest he had the common curtsy to clean up his graphomaniac puke

>>9963655
Why did this wacky lad kill himself again?

>>9963975
bazinga

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