Despite What Ignorant People Say, Terry Pratchett Is Destined For Enduring Fame

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer probably wo n’t be read 100 years from now , contend The Prestige author Christopher Priest . But Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have a seemly shot at posterity . Also : Terry Pratchett , whose final Discworld book just came out , has an fantabulous fortune at sticking around .

Priest ’s web log post is worth reading in its entirety — it ’s partly a meditation on what throw author endure after their deaths , and Priest ’s own observations on why Stephen King is more likely than Dan Brown to be show by our descendants . Priest argues that although it ’s unimaginable to predict for trusted what will make an author live on for decades after death , some mix of popularity and distinctive storytelling seems to be at child’s play — and Priest says the forward-looking literary novel is less likely to produce very many endure classic . “ We are more potential to find literary posterity , or the theory of it , in the musical genre . ”

But the second half of Priest ’s blog post is a response toa silly web log update in the Guardian , where writer Jeffrey Jones squeal that he ’s never scan Terry Pratchett ’s work , and has no stake in scan it , but he ’s certain that Pratchett is not a literary genius . ( the great unwashed are free , of course , to read or not to read any authors they choose , but I ca n’t imagine what would own someone to compose a whole piece about an author they had n’t register anything by . )

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But Priest ( who knew Pratchett when they were “ teenage wannabe ” ) write passionately about why he think the Discworld author seems to be “ a dead cert for retentive - term classical condition ” :

They are pen for a popular audience , so fulfill the first status . They have been commercially successful , not just in Britain and the USA , but in words and countries all around the world . The books are not wish by many : they are loved and admired by millions … .

His work is written well – no matter what Jones says about ‘ very average ’ prose , Terry Pratchett ’s novel are stylistically adept : good muscular prose , not mucked around with for effect ( except sometimes ! ) , liven by wit , keen observation , a unequaled take on the creation at large and whatever the subject of social sarcasm might be for the time being , a brim gumption of merriment and the ridiculous , and overall an approach path to the reader that feels inclusive , a lease in on the jest , an amused welcome to the world he is writing about .

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