It seems I can’t turn my back on a book for even a decade or so without it changing. Who is rewriting these things in my absence? SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: When did that become such a morality tale? MIDDLEMARCH: what’s this new plot? EQUAL RITES: Well, we won’t bother with the plot, because Pratchett is never about the plot; but sadly, so sadly, it’s not as funny as I remember. I loved Terry Pratchett as a teenager, and it’s sad to see that he or I have changed. It almost makes me scared to go back to other much loved books; I think I’d rather have my memory of the book I loved, rather than the book itself.