Terry Pratchett's work is worth getting breathlessly excited about.

He is a writer whom other writers read for sheer escape and pleasure. Is there any higher praise? ...And he's a writer who gets stronger and better and funnier with every book. He's a continual inspiration for those of us who all too often wind up dealing with people who believe that the only way to be original and exciting is to be between twenty and thirty. :) It's too easy, in the dark watches of the night, to start believing such people. Terry makes a continual nonsense of them all and gives those of us who're working in the same general arena a high bar to try to clear when we're working.

Can't wait to get my hands on the new book.