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sophia_sol) wrote2016-12-08 08:33 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2016-12-08 08:33 pm
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is just such a good writer, gosh. Okay so like, obviously this was a reread. But I haven't reread this one for a lot of years at this point! And it's really great.
One thing I noticed while reading it is something that I'd never consciously recognized before about Pratchett's writing. Which is his style of setting up a series of facts and leaving the reader to connect them and draw the obvious conclusion of whatever you're supposed to gather from the scene. It's really effective!
For example, the bit where Vimes is chasing a golem through the night, and he sees the wooden hanging statue exactly as it should be, but then stumbles across the wooden figure in the gutter and looks up to see that the place where the figure is supposed to be is now empty. The reader knows that it was the golem hiding there that he'd seen before, but Pratchett never says it.
I love the way this kind of thing makes the book feel like a collaboration with the reader.
One thing I noticed while reading it is something that I'd never consciously recognized before about Pratchett's writing. Which is his style of setting up a series of facts and leaving the reader to connect them and draw the obvious conclusion of whatever you're supposed to gather from the scene. It's really effective!
For example, the bit where Vimes is chasing a golem through the night, and he sees the wooden hanging statue exactly as it should be, but then stumbles across the wooden figure in the gutter and looks up to see that the place where the figure is supposed to be is now empty. The reader knows that it was the golem hiding there that he'd seen before, but Pratchett never says it.
I love the way this kind of thing makes the book feel like a collaboration with the reader.