This is because they are either hooked on the idea that literature must be pretentious to have any real value, they have more sense of fashion than sense of humour, or they are just dumb. It features one of my favorite characters in the crafty confidence man, Moist von Lipwig (Richard Coyle).
Of course there will inevitably a whole bunch of your mates who will treat you as being utterly uncool if you admit to reading them. GOING POSTAL, Terry Pratchetts 33rd Discworld novel, is also the British Sky networks third screen adaptation and easily the most accessible of the three. More recently he's been writing books that have almost everything you could want in what is still essentially humourous fantasy. A Hat Full of Sky Going Postal Hardback Book Cover by Terry Pratchett. Then he went through a spell of having some interesting retreads of classic plots along with developing some genuinely worthwhile characters. All 41 Discworld novels in reading order. The fantasy film was produced for Sky1 by The Mob, a small British studio, starring David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry. The early books are just simply parodies of standard fantasy stuff, so unless you have read significant quantities of pulp fantasy they are a waste of time. Terry Pratchetts The Colour of Magic is a fantasy - comedy two-part television adaptation of the bestselling novels The Colour of Magic (1983) and The Light Fantastic (1986) by Terry Pratchett. He's actually a brilliant prose stylist in the same economic and elegantly understated way as Doris Lessing, but as he also tells jokes that doesn't count for anything with the lit crit set (who basically seem to consider that actually making anyone laugh is a clear sign of low brow writing). Keep the rest, they vary from very funny to absolutely superb. Ignore the first four Discworld books, he was still learning to write.
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