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A Bit of an Oddity
Jan. 4th, 2025 11:11 pmJun 2023
Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes – Rob Wilkins – Doubleday, 2022
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This is a somewhat unusual biography in that it is partly written by the man himself. The first half, encompassing Pratchett's early years and career up to his decision to become a full-time author after the success of the first four Discworld books, is based on notes for an autobiography that he would occasionally dictate between bouts of writing. For reasons of stylistic consistency Wilkins has expressed them in third person, but it means that the text has moments of uniquely Pratchettian phrasing that read slightly oddly. It's not that Wilkins is in any way a bad writer, but, as he himself would be the first to admit, he is no Pratchett.
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