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The Next Great Adventure by abby - Discworld - K

Discussion in 'Almost Recommended' started by Aekiel, Jun 2, 2007.

  1. Aekiel

    Aekiel Angle of Mispeling ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Title: The Next Great Adventure
    Author: abby
    Rating: K
    Genre: Humour/General
    DLP Category: Humour
    Summary: Snape meets the Discworld's DEATH.
    Link: http://www.witchfics.org/abby/TNGA.html

    Pretty amusing oneshot someone posted on a site I browse. As it says, Snape meets DEATH before he dies, quite amusing and it made me laugh in places. And it just goes to show that even DEATH would do anything to stop Snape taking off his clothes.

    I'd give it a 4/5.

    Aekiel
     
  2. deathinapinkboa

    deathinapinkboa Minister of Magic

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    I really enjoyed it, if you read discworld check it out. If not, you won't appricate it.
     
  3. Richard

    Richard Supreme Mugwump

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    It was...interesting to say the least...although it didn't make me laugh like I thought it would...its an "average" story. I thought it'd be funny...but no...the author gave a good try. 3/5 for me for being an average story. Its a nice one-shot if you got time to kill.

    Richard.
     
  4. malaga

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    Ha, I enjoyed reading this, even if the footnotes here were annoying because I had to scroll all the way down then back again. But yeah, you do have to know Terry Pratchett's work fairly well to understand that. 4/5 (Because I love Discworld)
     
  5. Bukay

    Bukay Professor DLP Supporter

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    Could have been better... still, Death is the best, especially his thoughts about Snape.... what can I say, I love Discworld...

    4/5
     
  6. DreamRed

    DreamRed Seventh Year

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    I really liked this. Nice, clean writing style that captured some of what made Pratchett so good. Not laugh out loud funny, but definitely amusing.
     
  7. Garret P.I.

    Garret P.I. Backtraced

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    As has been said, Nice clean writing, did a good job of capturing Terry Pratchett's style and timbre quite well.

    Definitely not Laugh out Loud funny... but it's not intended to be that, its dry british humor. I give it 4.5 of 5... the extra .5 being for doing a good job on Death's attitude.

    Well done.
     
  8. Klael

    Klael Headmaster DLP Supporter

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    It reads like a Douglass Adams story--you know, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
     
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