slayra reviewed Slip of the Keyboard by Neil Gaiman
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3 stars
This book is a collection of non-fiction written by one of my favourite authors. I wanted to like this more than I did, probably because most of these texts were supposed to be listened to/read only once. But as part of a collection we get the same ideas and sentences repeated over the same topics. We can tell as Pratchett develops his ideas and which sentences he reuses for the next text. Maybe just publishing the final text (or the largest one) of one topic would work better.
The end is of course more serious, not only assisted death was a fight very dear to Pratchett as I felt he struggles to find something nice to say over his anger and willingness to right wrongs. I found that the sentence "My life, my death, my choice." summarises this topic neatly. But then again, the same sentiment encapsulates so many wrongs …
This book is a collection of non-fiction written by one of my favourite authors. I wanted to like this more than I did, probably because most of these texts were supposed to be listened to/read only once. But as part of a collection we get the same ideas and sentences repeated over the same topics. We can tell as Pratchett develops his ideas and which sentences he reuses for the next text. Maybe just publishing the final text (or the largest one) of one topic would work better.
The end is of course more serious, not only assisted death was a fight very dear to Pratchett as I felt he struggles to find something nice to say over his anger and willingness to right wrongs. I found that the sentence "My life, my death, my choice." summarises this topic neatly. But then again, the same sentiment encapsulates so many wrongs done to so many good people. Even though not my favourite read, I hope this book keeps Pratchett's ideas alive for years to come.