I have decided that I like Terry Pratchett's writing. Excerpts:

"You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like ‘my kind of town’ and ‘I wanna be a part of it’ in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citiznes, instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered individuals they suspect themselves to be."

"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who had been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staricases than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass. A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."