Review:I have now read four Diskworld books and I'm still waiting to see what it is the people love so much about this series. Each book is cute enough, but Mort and also Equal Rites seems almost more like children's books to me (the first two I actually enjoyed more). I know people like to compare Pratchett to Douglas Adams, but really, rather than being a fantasy world Adams, he seems more like an English Piers Anthony. Blasphemy to some, I know, though Anthony has his moments. Read more

Review:I've read this book in print and was really looking forward to having it in my Audio library, BUT I can hardly understand much of the dialog and it's so difficult to make out that it's not fun to listen to.

Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed the book when I read it in print. It's just too hard to hear and understand in the audio version. I really wish Audible/Amazon would re-record it. Read more

Review:Having just finished "SMALL GODS", I am somewhat embarrassed. Having been a fan of Mr Pratchett, it's somewhat emabarrassing to be writing a review of one of his books. I mean, even thinking I'm going to tell a reader something they don't already know is like thinking about the smell of the color purple! Either you know it, or you don't!
SMALL GODS is the sort of inside joke rich people share at cocktail parties, sniggering at those who don't get it. They are also the sort of people Vorbis co... Read more

Review:This is not the novel! I was taken to this title from a link and bought it thinking it was the novel. This is a script for a stage adaptation of the book as it says in the title, however, Terry Pratchett being who he is, I just thought it was part of the book title. Now I CAN'T RETURN IT because it's a digital order. Thanks Amazon... Read more

Review:Feet Of Clay is a terrific book. It has always been a favourite of mine and reading it again (for the third or fourth time, I think) it has lost none of its brilliance. It's worth saying that if you're new to Pratchett, don't be put off by the trolls, dwarves and so on. It's just an incredibly effective device for mirroring human society. (And Detritus the troll is a wholly wonderful character, too.)

Here, Vimes and the Watch are investigating apparent attempts to poison the Patrician... Read more

Review:The Discworld grows on you. After reading a dozen or so of Pratchett's marvelous stories about Life, the Universe, and Everything (so to speak), you've gotten to understand Unseen University, and the Librarian, and why you can walk across the Ankh River, and the Patrician's point of view (Sergeant Colon's as well), and the necessity of Death, and why the Mended Drum never closes. More than that, events in the author's world tell you a great deal about our own. This time around, it's the importan... Read more

Review:If you read one novel this year, read Beartown. Backman surprises with a book unlike his earlier efforts which were excellent in and of themselves, but in this book you sense his full potential as a writer. I would risk going so far as to say it should become a classic with Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace. This is a book all men should read but sadly will not but even at 73 years of age, I found it something special. This story will tug at you in multiple ways and it will make you thin... Read more

Review:This seems like the perfect writer finding the perfect material. Mitchell's imagination, already ferocious and able to make seemingly anything work in his fractured, polyphonic works like 'Cloud Atlas' and 'The Bone Clocks', can also just hone down on a single setting, in this case, early 18th century Japan, and write the HELL out of it for almost 500 pages.

The amount of historical detail and research that went into this is mind boggling, only writers like Neal Stephenson and Umberto Eco... Read more

Review:This is a wonderful historical/fiction story of real life in early England up to the early twentieth century. Tense at times, not graphic but full of suspense, Edward Rutherford is a wonderful example of this type of writing. Read more

Review:I have read the first, numbered half of the Hornblower Saga (from "Midshipman" up to "Beat to Quarters"), and I very much enjoy the series. I like Hornblower's ability to meticulously plan, the human way in which he is so self-critical (something all people probably can relate to), and his ability to unerringly know the right moment to take a risk in order to enhance the fruits of his careful planning.
However, I was reluctant to pay full price for something that was, essentially, half ... Read more