Late Pterry
Mar. 17th, 2020 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI've been on a Pratchett kick lately, specifically his late Discworld books. Not the very last of them - _Snuff_, _Unseen Academicals_, etc. - which, frankly, weren't all that good by Pratchettian standards. I'm talking about the books that followed _The Fifth Elephant_: _The Truth_, _Night Watch_, _Thief of Time_, _Going Postal_, _Making Money_, and _Monstrous Regiment_.
They're tied together, it seems to me: though most have humor in them, they are overall a good deal more serious than any of his earlier works. Most of them are not part of the earlier subseries; _Night Watch_ is a Watch book, of course, and _Thief of Time_ belongs to the Death subseries, but the old-line characters - except for Vetinari - don't get much more than cameos in the others.
It works. I don't enjoy these books as much as _Men at Arms_, or _The Fifth Elephant_, or _Lords and Ladies_, but they're pretty substantial. I'll have to remember to come back to these books from time to time.
They're tied together, it seems to me: though most have humor in them, they are overall a good deal more serious than any of his earlier works. Most of them are not part of the earlier subseries; _Night Watch_ is a Watch book, of course, and _Thief of Time_ belongs to the Death subseries, but the old-line characters - except for Vetinari - don't get much more than cameos in the others.
It works. I don't enjoy these books as much as _Men at Arms_, or _The Fifth Elephant_, or _Lords and Ladies_, but they're pretty substantial. I'll have to remember to come back to these books from time to time.
