A Conversation for Talking Point: Douglas Adams vs Terry Pratchett
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EaterOfMarmite Started conversation Sep 9, 2003
Neither author is better. Each have equal attributes. I laugh at TP and DNA for completely different reasons, sometimes exactly the same reasons and other times no reason at all.
You can't compare the two writers. Adams was a good writer, Pratchett is a good writer. I like them both. I enjoy their work equally, and why not?
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Sep 9, 2003
Agreed they are masters of there art and as such a cmp would fail.
-- DoctorMO --
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Sep 9, 2003
Absolutely, it's not fair to have to choose a better. They're both fantastic in their own ways! 
However, if I had to choose between Death and Marvin for a travelling companion, it'd have to be Death. At least he tries his best to shake off his depressing image...!
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Wildman - I'm not really mad, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years! Posted Sep 9, 2003
Couldn't agree more!
Just thinking that my idea of a perfect evening would likely be - a cosy hostelry with a few glasses of something warming and listening to DNA and TP discussing Life, both Universes and Everything. Include a tape recorder in the specifications and I could make enough to retire immediately .
Wildman
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Researcher 242141 Posted Sep 9, 2003
I also couln't choose between the two. But I would prefer living on Discworld, have Death(Or Susan if I could choose her) and luggage(I'm kind of hyperactive, so tea wouldn't be a good idea) traveling with me and I kind of like turtles(And rats,but they are not mice). But I would never ever think of drinking something in Ankh Morpork.
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Sep 9, 2003
What's wrong with edible beer, that's what I'd like to know? 
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quizzical Posted Sep 9, 2003
Just the thing to 'wash down' a sausage inna bun.
You'd probably meet Death shortly thereafter...
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Sep 10, 2003
You're not kidding!
I loved the part in Men At Arms when Dibbler was forced to eat his own food...
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invisibleknight Posted Feb 4, 2004
Neither author is better. Each have equal attributes. I laugh at TP and DNA for completely different reasons, sometimes exactly the same reasons and other times no reason at all.
You can't compare the two writers. Adams was a good writer, Pratchett is a good writer. I like them both. I enjoy their work equally, and why not?
Terry is bonkers, DNA was equally bonkers. great both writers
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deep_thoughtII Posted May 29, 2005
I agree...however it's hard because Terry Pratchett is such a prolific writer.
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- 1: EaterOfMarmite (Sep 9, 2003)
- 2: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Sep 9, 2003)
- 3: fords - number 1 all over heaven (Sep 9, 2003)
- 4: Wildman - I'm not really mad, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years! (Sep 9, 2003)
- 5: Researcher 242141 (Sep 9, 2003)
- 6: fords - number 1 all over heaven (Sep 9, 2003)
- 7: quizzical (Sep 9, 2003)
- 8: fords - number 1 all over heaven (Sep 10, 2003)
- 9: invisibleknight (Feb 4, 2004)
- 10: fords - number 1 all over heaven (Feb 4, 2004)
- 11: deep_thoughtII (May 29, 2005)
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