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wyrmbergmalcolm 's review for:
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
by Terry Pratchett
A lovely collection of lost Terry Pratchett stories meant I got to read something from my favourite author I'd previously not read.
Having said that, many of these stories have featured in slightly different formats in some of his other collected works. The Great Blackbury Pie, for example has a varied story in Father Christmas's Fake Beard as The Blackbury Pie and From The Horse's Mouth is very similar to the story Johnno, The Talking Horse from The Time-Travelling Caveman.
However the stories are a little bit different (possible due to a difference in allowed word count) and many of them show the seeds for greater things yet to come: Pilgarlic Towers is a precursor to Johnny and The Dead and The Quest For The Keys, is a proto-Discworld story.
So I was a little disappointed there wasn't as much new material as I'd hoped, but loved it nonetheless.
Having said that, many of these stories have featured in slightly different formats in some of his other collected works. The Great Blackbury Pie, for example has a varied story in Father Christmas's Fake Beard as The Blackbury Pie and From The Horse's Mouth is very similar to the story Johnno, The Talking Horse from The Time-Travelling Caveman.
However the stories are a little bit different (possible due to a difference in allowed word count) and many of them show the seeds for greater things yet to come: Pilgarlic Towers is a precursor to Johnny and The Dead and The Quest For The Keys, is a proto-Discworld story.
So I was a little disappointed there wasn't as much new material as I'd hoped, but loved it nonetheless.