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Well to be honest his more recent books started to be more dull in a way, although I respect deeply his work, especially with the earlier books, but maybe the alzheimer started to have an effect also on his writing. I've read most of his works until Snuff or so, but those 3 - 5 books before that just really didn't had the same magic anymore, so maybe it's for the best.

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Absolutely the writing quality had started to diminish -- it was at the point that I just felt sadness, and that I was doing Pratchett a disservice to even read his later books, as I think the Pratchett of 10 years ago wouldn't have wanted them to be written, if he knew.

Agreed; 'Raising Steam' made me so sad I couldn't finish it (I thought it was a much better story when titled 'Making Money', and even better when it was called 'Going Postal').

Good to hear, Going Postal was still good in my books, sometime I've pondered should I make an attempt to read those I didn't feel the call to, now I can assure I have no need to read those.

Making Money is worth reading, still.

I thought Unseen Academicals was his best book.

I found Discworld by starting with Unseen Academicals that I picked up at Düsseldorf waiting for my flight home from a business trip. I had it finished by the time the car service dropped me off at home.

I understand from the Guardian article that the last two books ( and possibly more ) were ghostwritten.

Terry had Ocular Alzheimer's disease. He "wrote" by either dictating to Rob or using speech recognition software.

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