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Thread #78352   Message #1409126
Posted By: Grab
14-Feb-05 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
Subject: RE: BS: Terry Prattchet and folkies
Pogo: Going Postal is kind of fun, but a bit more on the serious side. Not as dark as Monstrous Regiment though.

Monstrous Regiment is an oddity. Unlike his others, which are comedy with a serious undertone, this is heavily serious with odd comic moments - but the comic moments accentuate the seriousness of the rest of it. It's so utterly different from anything else he's done, I understand why it's not as popular. I didn't really like it myself on the first read-through, but if you re-read it as its own entity (rather than just another fantasy-comedy) then you see it for what it is.

Favourite book: can't pick one, but the shortlist would be Soul Music, The Amazing Maurice, or Only You Can Save Mankind.

Favourite character: shortlist again is probably Sam Vimes or Susan, although it's impossible to keep Death out. ;-)

Identify with: Probably Maurice the cat. Although I can definitely see myself as Johnny or one of his mates. And as a singer, possibly the Prophet Brutha ("Tell me, before these people are put to death, do you sing to them first?" "No!" "Ah, a merciful death then...")

Graham.