On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:13:02 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmail com> 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.
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Regards
Stephen
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