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Old 18-November-2007, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Halcyon Dayz View Post
Apparently they even read him in Indonesia.
200 million copies sold in 30 languages.
Much of it in the public domain now.
Read a lot of those too but found them formulaic and repetitive.
Most of my recreational reading is SF. Classics and modern.
My favourite is Jack Vance, who for some reason is, or at least for a very long time was, the bestselling SF author in the Netherlands.

I some time branch out though. Pratchett is hilarious.
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never checked that, for some reason I thought he was a German phenomenon onl.

100% agree with what you say about his style. I realised that when I was 10 or 11. Since then I haven't touched any of his books.
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