clew's reviews: a book log

The Last Hero, Terry Pratchett

Patrick O'Brian is at least one cb, or cookbook, which we can regard as a measure of saleability of popular authors. Terry Pratchett is too, of course, and Barbara Cartland has published at least two, although they seem both to be out of print. I don't believe Frank Herbert published a vanity cookbook, but I do remember a recipe for No-Bake Spice Cookies in the "Dune Activity Book" when the movie came out.

So cookbooks are a common category, bigger than a millihelen but smaller than a Oprah. Pratchett can sell an oversized hardback illustrated with knackneed flappy-breasted old guys in scanty loincloths, and I can't think of another one of those. New unit of publishing force, right up there with the complete edited letters and notes, Tolkien, q.v.

Other than that it's an okay Discworld novel, a quick orchestral reprise of Interesting Times.

ISBN: 0-06-104096-7 So wrote clew in SF&F.