![]() ![]() However, when he sees two men attacking a young woman, he can’t help but get involved. More importantly, he knows the importance of keeping to himself and staying uninvolved. The eponymous Dodger is a tough-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside, 17-year-old orphan who knows the seedy underbelly of London inside-out. ![]() ![]() In his latest novel Dodger, however, Pratchett has again taken an upbeat tone. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s some years ago, Pratchett can’t be faulted for having taken a turn towards the negative. Pratchett has covered war, enslavement, demonic possession, and - most worrying of all - the meaning of being human. In the more recent ones, these undertones have steadily become darker. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, which established him as one of the funniest and most on-point satirists writing today, has always been light-hearted, albeit with dark undertones. ![]()
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