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by baulan on April 1st, 2007

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Do you understand Terry Pratchett's humor, do you think anyone not from the UK can?

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  • by Anonymous on April 1st, 2007

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    Yes - I'm American, and his books are incredibly funny to me. To understand it I think you have to be observant and know what's going on in the world around you, and how people react to things, how *you* think, all sorts of stuff. And there are quite a few puns, some of which I don't catch until the third or fourth re-read (and yes, they are good enough to read over and over again - it isn't just the puns you don't notice until later). That said, there are a lot of in-jokes some newcomers to the series find hard to understand. I'd recommend just skipping over them until they start to make sense, after you've read a whole bunch. Or you can start from the beginning, but lots of people don't like the first few (including me) so I wouldn't recommend that particularly.

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