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zenith

What?

I mean, other than Terry P., what do people read for laffs that's similar.

I don't find Robert Rankin funny, tbh.

Fysh

Thank god someone else doesn't like Rankin - I was beginning to think I was the only Pratchett fan who thinks Rankin's a bit, well, crap. A few of his books got laughs out of me (and, on a couple of occasions, I've found that for sheer silliness and surreal comedy he can, when on form, give you a better overall read than Terry), but without fail I find that not one of Rankin's books bear re-reading. Whereas I still have most Discworld books for occasionally dipping into.

Douglas Adams goes without saying, but outside of that....I don't read much fantasy, comic or not. I quite like some of Tom Sharpe's stuff, although his satire is rather more bleak than Pratchett's.

OfflerCrocGod

Rankin is crud. T. P is in a league of his own as far as I can tell

Goodshape

Adams is better than Pratchett IMHO. Although he has nowhere near the same volume of work.

zenith

That's it, then? A blank!?!

Agree with Adams as a choice, and Tom Sharpe's vicious and absurd, so appealing - especially Riotious Assembly (read this if you've almost forgotten what apartheid was like: it's not _political_ heavy at all, but the satire is superb). Robert Anton Wilson's a bit trippy. Then I run out of recommendations.

Aargh!

Goodshape

Robert Anton Wilson - very good, but hardly comparable to Terry Pratchet.

Manach

Well, in the comic fantasy mold, the only name that comes to mind is Tom Holt. Compared to the quality of Pratchett, he is very hit and miss. His excellent "Walled Orchard" and "Who is afraid of Beowulf" nearly make up for reading the awful "Grailblazers" or the pointless "Here comes the sun".

whizzbang

I read Mort first, have gotten through a few more now.

Although I do think Adams is better! The Hitchhikers guide Movie is out soon I think! I believe Adams write the screenplay so it should be good!

W

zenith

H2G2 Trailer here:

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/DEFGH/Hitchhikers/trailer.php

oh, i'm so looking forward to it!!

Adams had some input into the screenplay, but not a huge amount. AFAIR the writer has already talked about the huge shoes he had to fill, etc. But Marvin looks the mutt's. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjs2000/protomarvin.htm

echomadman

Jasper Fforde writes in a similar but vein to terry pratchett, with 99% the "in jokes" and referential humour being literary rather than from general day to day life and pop culture.
The books are hilarious though.