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Review:Over the past two years, I've managed to collect every volume of the Discworld Series and a number of books that Terry Pratchett has worked on.
Why?
Terry Pratchett has produced an array of books that have consistently floored me with their thoughtful insights, hilarious situations, and wonderful characters.
All that I have lacked has been a vision.
Thanks to Paul Kidby, I now have it. The illustrations for this story are wonderful. And the story is fantastic.
The book involves ... Read more
Review:Rincewind returns to the Disc's plane of existence in the 9th installment of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, unfortunately the inept wizard's return is not one of the series' best.
Rincewind returns to the Disc, unfortunately an inept teenage demonologist named Eric has conjured him from dimension he was trapped in and believes him to be a demon. What Rincewind and Eric do not know is that they are pawns in a game by a demon lord against the reigning demon king who has 'modernized' H... Read more
Review:If this is going to be the last discworld book then I am glad it went out like this. While not the most well written, all the humor is there that you would want and it's just a nice story proper ending for everyone involved. Read more
Review:Once again Terry Pratchett has written a masterpiece. This time it is about the commander of the watch going back in time trying to catch a killer and running into himself as a young copper. Because he has gone back into time, Vimes has to set the past right again or risk damaging the future. The reader gets to meet many of the beloved cast of characters that have emerged from the diskworld series over the last twenty years. The reader meets everyone from Nobby to the Patrician as a young ma... Read more
Review:Cheap copy, with footnotes turned into parentheses in-text - - DON'T BUY! was obviously the cheapest print to order they could manage. Book was a weird size too. Ended up giving it away b/c it wasn't worth keeping Read more
Review:I enjoy both the subtle and the in-your-face irony of Mr. Pratchett's writings. This one was not an exception! The "religion" aspect of the plot (how people respond to religious or "religious" concepts) was quite funny and a bit thought-provoking... 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:Another excellent novel by human satirist Terry Pratchett, anyone who likes word play, a rollicking adventure along with a deep insight into what makes humans, and all the species of the world tick. Discworld is a place to got to look back on our own world and laugh!! Read more
Review:Over the past two years, I've managed to collect every volume of the Discworld Series and a number of books that Terry Pratchett has worked on.
Why?
Terry Pratchett has produced an array of books that have consistently floored me with their thoughtful insights, hilarious situations, and wonderful characters.
All that I have lacked has been a vision.
Thanks to Paul Kidby, I now have it. The illustrations for this story are wonderful. And the story is fantastic.
The book involves ... 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