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"The Collection of the Discworld-series books from Terry Pratchett deserves to be Christmas Gift of the Year 2010!"

"Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters" –IndependentIs there any other thing you could even consider being a better present of the year? I say NO! Pratchett’s work has been given him four honorary professorates, numerous literary awards and made him an Officer to the British Empire. His books have sold in over 50 million copies, in 33 languages. His Discworld series covers many great topics such as sports, banks, the postal service, gods (yes plural), death (the entity), politics, police, and media and foremost people and their quirks. All these subjects and more are gone through in detail in the soon to be 38 book in the Discworld series mixed into a fantasy world with Trolls, Dwarfs, Witches and Wizards, the Incarnations of the gods, Death, Time and Christmas, among other. There is also a lot of different cultures and their interaction with each other. All this is squeezed onto a flat disc riding on a giant turtle swimming in space. Pratchett incorporates wonderfully thought out satire and social observations in all his writing, examples could be how sly a salesman could be or how people are fooled by certain behavior.

His description of characters and their traits are unheard of, it is almost like he is playing with the language and its use, describing a character or a way of thinking always goes in depth in a way you certainly haven’t uncovered before, for example "Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All gods are bastards'." Pratchett has a wonderful talent for phrasing his sentences in a manner that says so much more than the words in themselves.Some may argue that there are many writers better than Pratchett but there is not a person as honored and revered for his work targeting the same age group out there. Where else can you find a vampire photographer that almost dies (light sensitivity) every time he takes a photo but goes with the motto "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger". Where else could you find a phrasing like: "He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving - anything with meat on it would have done." Pratchett’s sense of dry humor is unrivaled, he always find the small unthread lingual paths and uses and twists them to the limit. Pratchett’s works is also full of satire and very small things he twists out of proportion, "whenever he came close to the fleeing figure some muffled pedestrian got in the way, or a cart pulled out of a cross street. This always happens in any police chase anywhere. A heavily laden lorry will always pull out of a side alley in front of the pursuit. If vehicles aren't involved, then it'll be a man with a rack of garments. Or two men with a large sheet of glass. There's probably some kind of secret society behind this."

What is more important then to expand our minds and imagination?, humans are naturally curious creatures, giving a book to them will not only keep them occupied it will also give them new insights in ways of thinking, and what could be more important in this multicultural world? Pratchett’s books are some of the best in this aspect, ergo this must be the best gift!