For context if readers don’t know, there is a common game in writer circles where people take turns reading The Eye of Argon out loud, and if you laugh, you have to pass it on. People argued for ages about whether it was written by a troll to be deliberately bad. It’s that intense.

I now feel bad I ever played that game.

It is though. It feels like it’s written by a deliberate troll.

I now feel bad we had mocking readings of it at the writing camp I went to as a teenager though…

I legitimately skip sections of the book if they’re entirely about that character. I punted parts of Game of Thrones because I just didn’t want to read about certain characters, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t even miss much.

Give the book out to as many kids as wants it.

A lot of Pratchett’s appeal is not as much in his plot or other things that can be taken away from the prose, but in the way he writes his prose. It’s the actual narration of it, which does not translate to screen well.