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Let's Talk About Trunk Novels — Ep. 79 of Intentionally Blank

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Nightlife With a K by Terry Pratchett

"My worst trunk novel is called Nightlife. And it is me trying to do Bob Aspirin because I hadn't found really Terry Pratchett yet," he says. "There's a part where he eats a metal carrot which is clearly the antecedent of the Mistborn series." He adds: "I was enamored with this idea of a barbarian who used like a metal carrot to hit people".

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