Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller - BBC News

quote [ It is thought up to 10 incomplete novels were destroyed, as per the author's final wishes. ]

"It's surprisingly difficult to find somebody to run over a hard drive with a steamroller."
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[by cb361]
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cb361 said @ 11:57am GMT on 30th August
I read that Hitchhiker sequel novel that they got Eoin Colfer to write. I was surprisingly not totally awful, but read like another author trying to imitate Douglas Adams' style, without understanding why it works. But then a lot of Adams' own writing reads like somebody trying to imitate him, so I can't hold that against Colfer.

cb361 said @ 11:58am GMT on 30th August
I read that Hitchhiker sequel novel that they got Eoin Colfer to write. It was surprisingly not-totally-awful, but read like another author trying to imitate Douglas Adams' style, without understanding why it works. But then a lot of Adams' own writing reads like somebody trying to imitate him, so I can't hold that against Colfer.


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cb361 said @ 11:57am GMT on 30th August [Score:1 Insightful]
I read that Hitchhiker sequel novel that they got Eoin Colfer to write. It was surprisingly not-totally-awful, but read like another author trying to imitate Douglas Adams' style, without understanding why it works. But then a lot of Adams' own writing reads like somebody trying to imitate him, so I can't hold that against Colfer.



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