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My Book Review of 'A Stroke of the Pen'
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My Book Review of 'A Stroke of the Pen'

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Debbi Mack
Nov 21, 2023
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This is without a doubt the funniest result I’ve gotten from Rev.com’s regenerative AI summary function yet!

Speaker 1 reviews Terry Pratchett's book, A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, expressing great admiration for the collection. The speaker mentions that these stories are Pratchett's early writings before his famous Discworld series, but there are references to Discworld in the collection. The speaker particularly enjoyed the story "How Scrooge Saw the Spectral Light (Ho! Ho! Ho!) and Went Happily Back to Humbug", which features a twist on the character Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. The speaker also mentions that the foreword is by Neil Gaiman. The other speakers' comments are unrelated and nonsensical.

PS: There are no other speakers. Well, not really … :)

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