Pratchett is an incredibly fun author and, as far as I can tell, will continue to be so until DEATH comes for him. He's funny, inventive, has a great sense of the absurd and if his subtext has rapidly become text (racism bad! beer foamy!) well, we can forgive the sheer anviliciousness of it because it's not as though it's a bad moral and the story is still good.

I love Stephen Briggs as a reader and have started buying the Discworld books in audiobook solely to listen to him. THe Nac Mac Feegle will always be read in his voice.