On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:13:02 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>
>Terry is more into puns and taking things literally for humorous effect. 
>Later books are increasingly more about the story than about language or 
>humor (IMHO). Douglas was overflowing with short stories and small ideas 
>that had to find a way into a framework that was suitable for a book.
>Douglas is more quotable* because many of the ideas and observations are 
>already brought back to one-liners by him but Terry has written so much 
>more that he has had time to catch up on the number of ideas.
>

True

>*) It is a pity that the story of the lizards has too much context. 
>Sometimes I would like to quote 'otherwise the wrong lizard might get 
>in' but that would need too much explaining.

I can't remember that one but I think that I have downloaded it. I'll look it
up.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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