basil_touche 's review for:

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A wonderful collection of Pratchett's early work, reccently rediscovered. You can see some the early ideas that he would reuse in the Discworld novels. Each story, while brief and lacking some of the wit of his later work, was such fun to read through and the story of how these were rediscovered was also very interesting. The Christmas themed ones will be great quick reread during the festive period.

My personal favourites of the collection are:

How It All Began...
The Fossil Beach
A Partridge in a Post Box
The Great Blackbury Pie
Dragon Quest
The Haunted Steamroller
Pelgarlic Towers
The Quest for the The Keys