Re: Season's Greetings
No, not "goats. Geeze", Aaron... goat cheese.
Zelazny: I liked the first five Amber books much better than the second five.
I first read "A Night in the Lonesome October" the way it should be read... one chapter per day. In October. Then went back and read it again in a week in November.
Terry Prachett: Gotta love the Disk. :D
Rincewind, Twoflower, Death, the witches, Susan D'Eath, Ankh Morpork, Cohen the Barbarian, Bravd the Hublander, the Ankh Morpork Seamstress' Guild, the Assassins' Guild, The Shades, Lord Vetinari, Sam Vimes and the Night Watch, Corporal Carrot, Detritus the Troll, Cut My Own Throat Dibbler... oh, and Binky, of course. :)
Real comedy that comes from the way the characters are, not from clever catch-phrases and really forced situations. Comedy which is not funny because it's comedy, it's funny because it happened to somebody else, and not to you. You laugh almost from relief.
Drama too, oh yes, plenty of that. I agree with Cyan, "Lords and Ladies" is a scary book. The return of the fae to a land that has forgotten how dangerous they were, and how to fight them...