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In a rare moment of sanity in the literary world, the manager of the late Sir Terry Pratchett's estate has followed the beloved author's wishes and destroyed the hard drive of the computer containing his unfinished works by crushing it with a steamroller. As many as ten unfinished works were on the drive, which, after being unsuccessfully steamrolled several times, was finally securely destroyed by being put through a rock crusher.
The pieces will be displayed at the Salisbury Museum as part of a Pratchett exhibition.
While I do, personally and professionally, mourn the loss of Sir Terry's remaining work; as a librarian navigating a publishing world increasingly dominated by the likes of James Patterson's literary mill, I applaud the Pratchett estate's willingness to defend him from a legacy of eternal "new releases" based on random back-of-a-napkin jottings and used-bubble-gum-wrapper sketches, as seems to be the industry norm these days.
Now, all they have to do is resist the no-doubt-considerable monetary lure of officially-licensed Terry Pratchett's Discworld (TM) novels.
That being said, what posthumous releases or ghostwritten literary sequels have you read and enjoyed? Also, do you consider any of those be considered worthy sequels or additions to the originals?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 08 2017, @10:00PM (5 children)
Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books are better than Robert Jordan's.
I like the Tolkien "lost tales" and other curated releases because they are presented as unfinished work, so you can appreciate them for what they are.
My least favorite, coming from what would eventually be considered the YA genre, are the Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson, which have all the literary value of the Barnum and Bailey circus and are barely a shadow of the ones by L. Frank Baum.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Friday September 08 2017, @10:04PM (1 child)
On average, yes, but I think that the first book is the best of the series.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 08 2017, @10:15PM
Lampooned in Achille Talon [wikipedia.org], ep38, where a whole page is dedicated to book critics, including one particular critic declaring none of the books as the best in the series.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Friday September 08 2017, @11:54PM
I read the Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books, but only really remember Tik Tok and the Shaggy Man vs. the Wheelers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:51AM (1 child)
That guy has no balls.
(Score: 1) by Demena on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:41AM
Must be the hero of a jack chalked novelthen