Once More With Footnotes

Pratchett may still be pegged a comic novelist, but ... in his range of invented characters, his adroit storytelling, and his clear-eyed acceptance of humankin d's foibles, he reminds me of no one in English literature so much as Geoffrey Chaucer. No kidding." — Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
     
                  "Pratchett's humor is international, satirical, devious, knowing, irreverent, unsparing, and, above all, funny." — Kirkus Reviews
     
                  "Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable." — The Times
     
                  "An enduring, endearing presenc e in comic literature ... Pratchett's position as a leading comic novelist now seems as permanently assured as that of P. G. Wodehouse." — The Guardian