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Originally Posted by Angua_rox
Sacharissa, I would disagree, yes they are more suitable for teenagers who haven't read that much of the genre, but I don't think that teens don't have the life/political savvy to appreciate pTerry. I would say that a large part of his genius is that you can read it and not get a large amount of the jokes while still finding it funny. I would agree with you that the more life/political savvy you have the more of his jokes you will get, but I don't follow that savvy necessarily comes with age.
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Teens are from 12 to 18. A large portion of them have no political savvy, period.
Besides, it's the way minds work at that age. When I was 12 I read Shakespear's Julius Ceasar and I took that bit where Marc Athony was making the speech standing over Ceasar's corpse at face value. Some years later, I read in another book about how skillfully manipulating that speech was, inticing rebellion while saying how honourable Brutus was. I felt like a tool then and made a point of learning the basics of politics and so many funnies and jokes made sense after that.