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The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby
The Last Hero is one of the shorter Discworld novels and (possibly) the only one that's only available as an illustrated novel (not sure if you can get it without illustrations). It starts off a bit weakly - some good laughs certainly but the change...
Book Review - The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Wee Free Men is Terry Pratchett second children’s books set in Discworld (the first being “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents”) and is a Story of Discworld, but not a Novel of Discworld. Unlike his other books for children that I...
Book Review - Strata by Terry Pratchett
We all know Terry Pratchett as the creator of the Discworld series (or if you don’t, it’s about time you did). But Strata is an early exploration of that idea and, while I don’t think it’s up to the standard of the majority of the Discworld n...
Book Review - Monstrous Regiment
What do a young girl, a vampire, a troll, and an Igor have in common?They’re all in the Monstrous Regiment, of course. And they all have a secret reason for joining the Borogravian Army. And they all have another secret, or at least they think they...
Book Review - Nightwatch
In years to come, I wonder if the same debate will rage about Terry Pratchett as Shakespeare – i.e., was he in fact several people? He writes with such authority on a huge number of subjects and in such a variety of styles that it’s quite incredi...
Book Review - The Truth
Ankh Morpork has never had a newspaper – people like William DeWorde are paid to write letters to important people containing little snippets of news and gossip. The Dwarves have invented moveable type, which is about to change all of that… and W...
Book Review - Sourcery
Discworld for Beginners…Discworld is a place of magic, mystery, madness, and occasionally murder. This manages to incorporate all of these elements into the story, more or less in the above order. It’s a place where mythical creatures such as uni...
Book Review - Soul Music
On the Discworld, Imp was a bard from Llamedos who everyone suspected of being Elvish (took me half way through the book for that one to sink in... I know, I know, I'm slow...)Coming to Ankh-Morpork, the Capital city, he forms an unlikely alliance wi...
Book Review - The Last Continent
The Last Continent (a strange land which is called "EcksEcksEcksEcks") is one of the longer Discworld novels, and that can never be a bad thing. It centres on ... er... The Last Continent, which was made thousands and years ago... only Rincewind (an ...
Book Review - Moving Pictures
Discworld is a world that's also a disc. It's carried through space on the back of a giant turtle. The things that happen on the world are often the same sort of things that happen on earth - but the ways they happen are completely different. (For in...
Book Review - The Light Fantastic
Discworld is a place of magic. As such, there are magical people, like Wizards, floating around. Rincewind is a wizard - he just happens to be amazingly bad at it. There are 8 great spells (8 is the magic number on Discworld) and one of them got into...
Book Review - The Colour of Magic
The book that started off the Discworld series, The Colour Of Magic is primarily concerned with the escapades of the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower, and an inept wizard, Rincewind. Rincewind is incapable of becoming a capable wizard, as one of the e...
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Making MoneyChapter 13Gladys Does It For Herself - To the House of Mirth - The history of Mr Bent - Usefulness of clowns as nurses is questioned - Owlswick gets an angel - The golden secret (not exactly dragon magic) - The return of the teeth - Veti...
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Making MoneyChapter 12No help from on high - Drumknott reports - A possible jape - Mr Fusspot takes the stage - Strange things in the air - The return of Mr Bent - "Look put, he's got a daisy!" - Pucci's big moment - Cosmo needs a handFor more info p...
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Making MoneyChapter 11The golems go - True worth - At work: servants of a higher truth - Back in trouble again - The beautiful butterfly - The insanity of Vetinari - Mr Bent wakes up - Mysterious requirementsFor more info please see my review of Maki...
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Making MoneyChapter 10Doing it in style - "The chairman goes woof" - Harry King puts something by - The screaming starts - One kiss, no tongue - Council of wars - Moist takes charge - A little magic, with stamps - Arousing the professor's interest - ...
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Making MoneyChapter 9 Cribbins fights his teeth - Theological advice - "That's what I call entertainment" - Mr Fusspot's magic toy - Sir Joshua's books - Breaking in to banking - The minds of policemen - What about the gold? - Cribbins warms up - The...
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Making MoneyChapter 8 As Below, so Above - No gain without pain - A mind for puzzles - Mr Bent's sad past - Something in the wardrobe - Wonderful money - Thoughts on madness, by Igor - A pot thickensFor more info please see my review of Making Money ...
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Making MoneyChapter 7The Joy of Collops - Mr Bent goes out to lunch - The Dark Fine Arts - Amateur thespians, avoidance of embarrassment by - The Pen of Doom! - Professor Flead gets cosy - "Lust comes in many varieties" - A Hero of Banking! - Cribbin...
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Making MoneyChapter 6Jailbreak - The prospect of the kidney snadwich - The barber-surgeon's knock - Suicide by paint, inadvisability of - Angels at one remove - Igor goes shopping - The use of understudies at a hanging, reflections on - Places suitab...
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Making MoneyChapter 3Spending spree - Inadvisability of golem back-rubs - Giving away money - Some observations on the nature of trust - Mr Bent has a visitor - One of the familyThat last bit refers to a meeting which garners one of my favourite quot...
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Making MoneyChapter 3The dark ring - An unusual chin - "A job for life but not for long" - Getting started - Fun with Journalism - It's all about the city - A mile in his shoes - A Lavish OccasionFor more info please see my review of Making Money , o...
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Making MoneyChapter 3The Glooper - A proper Hubert - One very big mattress - Some observations on tourism - Gladys makes a sandwich - The Blind Letter Office - Mrs Lavish's posterity - An ominous note - Flight planning - An even more ominous note, an...
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Making MoneyChapter 2The promise of gold - The Men of the Sheds - The cost of a penny and the usefulness of widows - Overheads underfoot - Security, the importance thereof - A fascination with transactions - A son of many fathers - Alleged untrustwor...
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To help promote my review of Making Money and because I thought it would be fun, I'm putting all the text from the chapter headings on my book review blog.Chapter 1Waiting in darkness - A bargain sealed - The hanging man - Golem with a blue dress - C...
Making Money by Terry Pratchett - Full Review
I've lost count of how many Discworld novels I've read... anyway, here's my review of the latest, Making Money.It's not quite as good as Going Postal, but it's still very good. Apparently Moist's next job could very well be reforming the Inland Reven...
Making Money by Terry Pratchett - First Thoughts
I've decided to take a short break from Alistair MacLean novels and go back to Discworld. Moist von Lipwig is again the star (he first appeared in the excellent Going Postal), with Lord Vetineri once again twisting Ankh-Morpork and the world in gene...
Focus on Terry Pratchett
Everyone knows Terry Pratchett from his hugely successful Discworld novels. However not everyone knows of his other books, the pre-Discworld science fiction books and his very first book, The Carpet People. So, much as I love the Discworld books, I...
