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lightreads) wrote2019-02-23 04:22 pm
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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
3/5. What it sounds like. The first two-thirds are mostly light-hearted columns and speeches, a few biographical, largely jokey (and proving that no, he definitely didn't really grock all of what he was doing with the witches from a feminist perspective, and in fact actively rejected that perspective at some points). The last third is furious. Furious at dying, and the manner of it. There's some very good writing in that last third. I have the strong impression that he was far more real and available as a person in his writing towards the end, but that it wasn't that slow dying changed him, it's that he gave less of a fuck about telling you who he was.
3/5. What it sounds like. The first two-thirds are mostly light-hearted columns and speeches, a few biographical, largely jokey (and proving that no, he definitely didn't really grock all of what he was doing with the witches from a feminist perspective, and in fact actively rejected that perspective at some points). The last third is furious. Furious at dying, and the manner of it. There's some very good writing in that last third. I have the strong impression that he was far more real and available as a person in his writing towards the end, but that it wasn't that slow dying changed him, it's that he gave less of a fuck about telling you who he was.