irresistable

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• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there an author that writes like this? I would like to read an entire book of this.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is Tiffany, walking back home. Start with the boots. They are big and heavy boots, much repaired by her father and they’d belonged to various sisters before her; she wore several pairs of socks to keep them on. They are big. Tiffany sometimes feels she is nothing more than a way of moving boots around.

    Then there is the dress. it has been owned by many sisters before her and has been taken up, taken out, taken down and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.

    A few pages later

    She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat. The screaming monster, leaping out of the water, met the frying pan coming the other way with a clang.

    It was a good clang, with the oiyoiyoiyoioioioioinnnnnnggggg that is the mark of a clang well done.

    Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men

    And Corporal Nobbs… well, anyone like Nobby had unlimited reasons for not wishing to be seen by other people. You didn’t have to think hard about that. The only reason you couldn’t say that Nobby was close to the animal kingdom was that the animal kingdom would get up and walk away.

    Terry Pratchett - Guards Guards

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn’t cynical enough when writing Zaphod.

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    • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.

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  • 90s_hacker@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams.

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  • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Terry Pratchett Discworld books? From memory the ones about witches at least had a good bit of it.

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series. For a long while you’re not actually sure what species the characters are, what they look like, if they even have gender, and how many limbs they have.

    It’s a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it’s awesome)

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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you’d probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone counting legs, nobody counting arms.

  My lady had a limb for every day of the week!

  Don’t ask what the Friday limb was…

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• anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tripod legs

  Someone’s been playing Sons of the Forest

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