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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
<arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
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> > 
> Kneasy
> P.S.
> Agree about Pratchett, he didn't hit top form until about his fifth
> book - and Alistair Reynolds, got to be 'Diamond Dogs' but does it
> count as a stand-alone book?
> Decisions, decisions.

Ah Alastair Reynolds is a recent find for me

Neuromancer, how can I have forgotten that! Also, ye gods, Douglas 
Adams...

Another author would be Michael Dibdin (and no I won't pick one 
book ;-)

On Pratchett, yes book three would be about where he picks up for 
me, but a quick review of the list shows they have selected the 
first book in all series so that might explian it. Now my favourite 
of his would be Guards! Guards! if only for the 'million to one 
chance' scene. Oh and I liked his comment re JK:

His full response to Rowling's admission that she did not think 
Harry Potter was fantasy as she was writing it, was: 
"I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, 
hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, 
ghosts, broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?" 

Regards
Jo
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