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Who is the better author?

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Terry Pratchett vs Douglas Adams

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More specifically, what is the best work of each author? For Terry, I'd vote Guards! Guards! For Doug, I'd say that Life, the Universe and Everything made the strongest impression on me. Of course, I was only 15 at the time. My opinions may alter if I read his series today. And I have yet to read Mostly Harmless. Does it measure up to the rest of the series?
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I like Pratchett better. His books just seem funnier to me.
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Douglas Adams. I've only read a bit of Prachett but Adams is just more side splittingly funny.
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Adams. Pratchett is not funny, at least not in the book I read.
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Douglas Adams for the crime of turing the galaxys biggest ever conflict into a gam we earthlings call Cricket. and the SEP (Somebody Elses Problem) cloaking device. In fact for many many such jokes that make my bullied childhood easier to live with. Wo here didn't laugh at the idea of a cow, soon to be ur dinner, coming out to chat to it's customers.
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Having never read Partchett (only played a Discworld game once, didn't think it was very funny) I would vote for Adams.

I would vote for Adams, but I have no idea which poll option is that.
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Oh wait, Vogon poetry.
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Piers Anthony's Xanth series...although I'm biased, since I live in Xanth.

Actually, out of those two, I prefer Adams. It's just psychotic enough to be funny without going totally over the edge into stupid.
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Close one, but I'd say Prachett. Same level of hilarity, but a bigger body of work. And Men At Arms was far superior to "Guards, Guards".
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I've read both but Adams for me is just that tad bit funnier...but only a tad :)
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Ender wrote:Close one, but I'd say Prachett. Same level of hilarity, but a bigger body of work. And Men At Arms was far superior to "Guards, Guards".
Maybe, but Douglas had a whole lot better one liners.
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They're both pretty funny. In my opinion, Adams has a slight edge.
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It's cruel making people choose between the two. However I went for Pratchett (only just though). His best book IMO is...ummm...I don't know...anything that's not a 'witch' book.
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Neko_Oni wrote:It's cruel making people choose between the two. However I went for Pratchett (only just though). His best book IMO is...ummm...I don't know...anything that's not a 'witch' book.
The witch books are among my favourites, along with the Watchmen books.
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Adams, being dead, automatically wins.

Period.
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Shadowhawk wrote:Adams, being dead, automatically wins.

Period.
He's, ah, spending a year dead for tax reasons...
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SirNitram wrote:
Shadowhawk wrote:Adams, being dead, automatically wins.

Period.
He's, ah, spending a year dead for tax reasons...
Hey, you're right! And I thought we had lost him for good...
The clever bugger...

And I vote Pratchett, because

a) there's tons more to read, and

b) Mostly Harmless was bleh.

MY favorites are propably 'Men at Arms' and 'The long dark tea-time of the soul', respectively (and if you don't know which is whose, you have no business voting here :wink: )
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Doug for sheer concentrated hilarity, Terry for a broader base of humor. The fact that Adams is dead, and we won't be seeing anymore still sucks though.
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I'm going with Prachet by a hair. Both are hillarious plane and simple.
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