From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 09:07:25 MST
FWIW, I'm a long-time fan of both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, b pander wrote:
>
> Well the question is pretty straight forward is'nt it?
>
> This is not a post about some serious and intelectual book but about a verry
> funny serry by Terry Pratchet. I suspect quite a lot of fans of this great
> author of fantasy parody/modernworld fun. Who know this authors work?
>
> For the people who don't know his work: it's like addam douglas hitchikers
> guide to the galaxy in a fantasy setting but even more amusing(I think) he
> also uses motives of modern day live and makes fun of them. Discworld god's
> for instance realy exist(you can actualy meet them if you are a litle bit of
> a witch, wizzard, monk e.d) but only if enough people belive in them they
> have power. There is one religion in the discworld which does belives in a
> god who they never met and can not see (like modern day religion) the curch
> of Om and the folowers omnians. They are in a constant row about how church
> of Om should be and whats its moral. Ofcourse other religions don't
> understand why they worship a god which is obvious not there....
>
> The wizards of discworld created our universe and called it roundworld as an
> experiment to see what happens in a world were magic does not exist...
>
> The science of discworld one and two are the books in which Pratchet looks
> at roundworld history and science from a discworld perspective. It realy is
> extreamly funny and somehow a bit insightfull (allthough maybe not for
> pretty enlightent people as members of CoV)..as are all his books.
>
> greets
>
> U. Beata
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