Det tyckte jag var intressant, för jag har nästan helt motsatt uppfattning. Terry Pratchetts första böcker tycker jag nästan är oläsliga, jag saknar inte alls trollkarlarna (men Döden och Bibliotekarien får förstås gärna vara med mer). Framförallt gillar jag skarpt när Pratchett tar sig an vår världs fenomen. Vad har ni andra för åsikter i frågan?
Låt mig också dela med mig av det här guldkornet från Making Money (vi har satt upp det på väggen på kontoret (ja, vi håller på med en omorganisering på jobbet)).
Lord Vetinari was a great believer in letting a thousand voices be heard, beacause this meant that all he actually needed to do was listen only to the ones that had anything useful to say, 'useful' in this case being defned in the classic civil service way as 'inclining to my point of view'. In his experience, it was a number generally smaller than ten. The people who wanted a thousand, etc., really meant that they wanted their own voice to be heard while the other 999 were ignored, and for this purpose the gods had invented the committee. Vetinari was very good at committees, especially when Drumknott took the minutes. What the Iron Maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive,* far less messy, considerably more efficient and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the Iron Maiden. ---- Terry Pratchett Making Money 2007
*The only real expense was tea and biscuits halfway through, which seldom happened with the Iron Maiden.