The second best thing about Terry Pratchett is the jokes. I can never decide whether he's parodying Sword & Sourcery novels more than modern life, but it's always worth reading the footnotes for the little digs he manages to get in.
The best thing about Terry Pratchett is how angry he makes people. People will insist that he's a children's author, but not as good as Lewis Carroll, or Philip Pullman, who are Proper Children's Authors.
Anyway, the Last Continent isn't one of the best, despite having Rincewind in it. For some reason, Pratchett can't quite pull off taking the piss out of Australians, though they are an easy target. Maybe that's the problem; Pratchett's real targets are powerful people, and simple ideologies, and Australia, bless its little barbies, doesn't really have an ideology. All he can do is write pastiches of Aussie popular culture, because that's all there is to mock.
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