/lit/ - Literature

>>478528
OP, here. I thought this would start a shitstorm. Apparently all of /lit/ agrees?

/lit/ is really slow right now, cause it's between 1:30 and 4:30 AM in the US

But I happen to agree with you so whatever

I honestly don't know who the guy on the left is. Perhaps the knowledge of such would incite rage?

>>478542
that is terry pratchett.

YOU SON OF A BITCH.

Nah. Really, I couldn't care less. Good authors are good authors, and I think they're both extremely respectable in their own way.

>>478549
I like pratchett better, cuz he's more prolific, and his books cover a greater range of subject matter. I also find his humor to be more finely tuned, and not so goofy.

>>478544
I thought it was Phillip K. Dick. I was incensed either way.

what should i read from terry?

>>478557
that depends, his work covers a lot of different things, What do you like usually? I haven't read ALL of his stuff yet, but i'm almost there.

>>478558
Medieval works or sci fi.

>>478553
>implying that douglas adams even holds a candle to philip K. Dick.

Lol.

>>478565
hmmm... then color of magic, and the light fantastic. Any of the Rincewind books, or the Witches books, I should think. They kind of do this nifty thing where they come at science in this different ass backwards way, that's very medieval but also kind of makes sense.

For sci fi... eh... thief of time.

>>478565
oh, and Eric is a parody of Faust, so that might tickle you.

Damn, I thought it was Penderecki. That would've been a wonderfully surreal poll.

Anyway, TP is more inconsistent and niche (not in appeal, but in self-imposed boundaries), but probably more entertaining.

>>478574
in consistant? in what way exactly?

>>478570
>>478573
Now... should I read THOSE first or start with GRR Martin?

>>478577
I haven't read GRR martin, and i'm not sure what that is, so i couldn't tell you.

>>478580
Author

>>478576

In that some of his books are boring as hell - like how did he go from Feet of Clay to Jingo - total win to total mediocrity.

>>478580

>haven't read GRR martin yet so I couldn't tell you what that is

I lol'd

>>478581
ah, well. Go whichever way tickles you. When reading pratchett stuff, I would also make sure that if you're following one of his main sets of characters, you read them in the order published. This is especially important if you're reading a book that contains Vimes, or Death. The others you can kind of hop around, but you might spoil stuff for yourself. I think wikipedia has a list with the books in order of publication. .

>>478583
Dude, I can't read EVERYTHING!

>>478586
/lit/ talks about the book everyday though. Don't worry about it, it's funny though

>>478586

Yeah man, I'm not hating or anything. Just got a chuckle out of it.

>>478589
Oh. I'm not on lit every day. I'm usually on /x/ or /adv/. I just kinda pop in here and there.

ITT: My tastes>your tastes.

DUnno who's the nigger on the left (Pratchett?), but fuck, sir, ANYONE is better than Douglas Adams. Adams might easily be the worst euthor of the second half of XX. He truly wrote Twilight-level books.

>>478638
You are a twilight level troll, sir
2/10 because i bothered to write this

>>478643
You like Adams? You honestly like Adams?

Yes, I know it's true, I state so everytime my opinion on the matter is requested, I have way better taste than every one of you.

So yeah.

>>478528
You call that troll worthy?

>>480449
This is a troll image.

>>480454
That is.

That is very much stirring up trouble on my tongue.

I want to rage, but you explicitly stated you are trying to make me mad, so I can't be mad or I'm letting you win.

As for which Pratchett books to read, Small Gods is FUCKWIN compared to his other ones. Made me laugh and think the most, so it must count for something.

>>480475
>made me think the most
More so than Night Watch? Personal favorite there, even if it is darker than the rest.

>>480454
Had this occured anywhere else I would indeed have fallen for your fine troll

>>480475
>>480512
Seriously? How can you fall for a troll this blatant? Nobody posting on /lit/ will front for Stephanie Meyers to that extent. Come on, have basic troll awareness, guys.

>>478528
I need to read discworld sometime

Pratchett is definitely better. Adams was kind of a one hit wonder, each of his books after the first was worse than the one before it. He was living off the fame from that single novel (which was still a great novel and one of my favorites). Pratchett on the other hand, has only gotten better with time. He's written dozens of great novels. He's more prolific and his books are higher quality than Adams.

They're both still good.

>>480504
Oh no doubt, Night Watch made me think, but about different things. ...I can't describe what they made me think about, because I really don't know how to put it in words, but it's got a lot about Religion, Faith, Freedom, Opinion, Death, Gods (as people), and a whole lot of Innocence.

Night Watch the same, I don't know how to relay what it made me think of, but it has a lot to do with Morality, Ethics, Revolution, Fate, a dash of Politics, Laws, the whole "Ethical Living" debate. Small Gods was more of a "Theistic Living", which should be one and the same, but the fact that the two are considered different in this day and age is something deeply disturbing.