"One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh"? Sir Terry Pratchett

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"He becomes funnier the more you read him"? The Independent

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He died, penniless, at a Hastings boarding house, in his ninetieth year.

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• Publication Date: May 29, 2012
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• Print Length: 356 Pages
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