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Terry Pratchett fans are defending his honour after The Guardian called him 'mediocre'
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CELEBRATED AUTHOR TERRY Pratchett passed away earlier this year.
His final book in the Discworld series, The Shepherd’s Crown, was published last week and is already earning wonderful reviews from critics and fans alike.
Today, however, writer Jonathan Jones has penned an article for The Guardian entitled “Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius” and criticised the late author.
Jones opens his piece by stating that he has never Pratchett’s work nor does he ever intend to. “Life’s too short,” he writes.
He then singles out Pratchett, who sold 85 million books during his lifetime, as being “part of a very disturbing cultural phenomenon”.
This afternoon, Pratchett fans have taken to Twitter to defend the late author.
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While others heaped praise on Pratchett and the legacy he left behind.
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And accused Jones of being a ‘literary snob’.
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And other fans? Others have simply employed this wonderfully apt quote from the man himself.
Perfect.
A tweet describing Amal Clooney as ‘actor’s wife’ caused a whole heap of drama >
10 times TV was unbelievably grim >
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