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Although this world may look and sound completely different to our own, the discworld novels explore a multitude of very human issues. Some rubbish terry pratchett wrote in 2003 about a country being plunged into poverty and having to eat horse meat by a war and proposing more war even after this and previously blindly obedient young people rebelling. According to the times pratchett was the most popular and top selling author in 1996. Ok, first of all, david, why are you even here, youre not chinese. Terry pratchetts discworld series comprises of a staggering 41 novels, 32 years in the making.
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