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Title: Needs more work
Review: Take one very talented strangler with an interest in philosophy and his cynical profit-driven manager. Now, put them into a set of loosely connected vignettes and a sprinkling of equally loosely connected fantasy tropes. Mash them together - don't worry about how they fit around the edges - and shamelessly pad out the last third to bring the whole thing up to some reasonable word count. The Philosophical Strangler tries very hard to have the wit and depth of the Discworld novels, and it just doesn't manage it. Still, two stars for some decent puns.
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