Quote Originally Posted by Winged Dancer
So now I'm re-reading Small Gods, Hogfather, and probably one more of the Discworld series. I'm sure Terry Pratchett doesn't qualify as unkwnown in the USA or England, but in Mexico I'm probably one of the few who has read (almost) everything the guy has...

Discworl is a great series, at least for me. It's the kind of book you can laugh out loud while reading, and (from my point of view) it offers, sometimes, a very harsh social critic - one you can always ignore, but that I like to think about.
Just finished the first book from the Discworld set, "The Color of Magic", and I enjoyed it greatly. Funny, action-packed and a great blend of mysticism with funk weird medieval sci-fi staples. An excellent book and very that last part of Winged's post I found to be very true.

(thanks to comp for the recommendation).

It was surely a great change of pace after finishing Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov which was quite good (if you can stand the way it's presented, which I just happen to love for some reason) but has a rather weak ending portion, which is a real shame.... The Idiot is still my fave Dostoevsky at this point... But, yes, I'll be sure to read my Discworld stuff in the future when I want a light sci-fi.