The Discworld Series and Other Books By Terry Pratchett
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A Guide to the Discworld Series and Terry Pratchett's Writing
This page is an attempt to create a starting point for people interested in Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series and a compendium of the available material and reviews here on Squidoo. There's a terribly shocking lack of reviews here, so I've started by listing all the books, grouped in approximate subject order (e.g. Rincewind, The Witches of Lancre, Young Adult...) and where other lenses exist reviewing each book, I have included them. There are quite a few general lenses about the Discworld and a fair few reviews hidden in other books lenses, and I've included those on here as well.
But there are about seven book reviews and over forty books. Please forgive the fact that this is basically a list of books - and if you want to help fix this, please write another review on a specific book, or make a page about one of the characters. If nothing else, I hope you enjoy the quotes!
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Most Recent And Upcoming Terry Pratchett Books
Just Come Out In September 2010 and... already being written!
- and, as it involves goblins, probably Unseen Academicals as well.It starts off with Sam Vimes going away on a two week holiday (with his wife Sybil) to their country house. The working title is Snuff (meanings: fine ground tobacco, snorted up the noise; to 'snuff' out a candle, leading to 'Snuff' films depicting actual death).
He is also going back to another, previously secret, project, put aside when the Discworld series took off. Two unpublished novels in a series called The Long Earth. Long Earth is science fiction, and he'll be collaborating with Stephen Baxter. (Actually, that's not as surprising as it originally seemed - his Science of the Discworld books and the early Johnny and the Dead series definitely edge right into Scifi territory).
The most recently published book is I Shall Wear Midnight.
The fourth in the young adult series following the young witch Tiffany Aching as she tramps in her giant boots from her shepherd roots on the Chalk, up to Lancre and back, attracting unfortunate allies with minds of their own, and the flattering and even more unfortunate attentions of Winter itself and Granny Weatherwax, I Shall Wear Midnight comes out in September 2010
I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld)
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It's out, it's good, and I've reviewed I Shall Wear Midnight in some depth here!
Release Date: 09/28/2010
Table of Contents - About Terry Pratchett and the Discworld
Homepage Table of Contents
- Most Recent And Upcoming Terry Pratchett Books
- New To Pratchett?
- More about the Discworld
- The Discworld Characters, History and Geography
- Guides to the Discworld and Pratchett: Books
- Where to find short stories by Terry Pratchett
- The Annual Discworld Yearbook and Diary
- Discworld Feature Films and TV Adaptations
- Guestbook
Upcoming books from Terry Pratchett for 2011 and 2012
New To Pratchett?
And wondering where to start...?
More about the Discworld
General lenses about the series and author
The Discworld Characters, History and Geography
Lenses about the characters, history and places of the Discworld
Guides to the Discworld and Pratchett: Books
For the more dedicated Discworld scholar
The Non-Discworld Books
This page lists the non-Discworld stories - the early books like The Carpet People and Strata, and the newer ones like Nation and Good Omens (co-written with Neil Gaiman), as well as the only non-fiction (if rather satirical) book he ever wrote - The Unadulterated Cat.About Pterry and the Discworld ♦ The Non-Discworld Books ♦ The Discworld Books ♦ Short Stories, Games & Misc
Table of Contents - The Non Discworld Books
Pre-Discworld books
The Carpet People
The Unadulterated Cat
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The Unadulterated Cat
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
The Top Five Quotes
From The Unadulterated Cat
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.
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Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").
1 point
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
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Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room.
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
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The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they've been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars ...or appear on Christmas cards ...or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away ...
The Carpet People: Review
'Stop that!' he shouted. 'You're soldiers! You're not supposed to fight!'
Top Ten Quotes from The Carpet People
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Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet.
They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that more...1 point
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants
- the officers are there just to give things a bit more...1 point
On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains to an audience in the market square,
to hear their grievances. He didn't always do anyt more...1 point
'But we should kill him!'
'No. You've been listen to Brocando too often,' said more...0 points
'Waiting is the worst part,' said Pismire.
'No it isn't,' said Owlglass, who wasn't even bein more...0 points
'Stop that!' he shouted. 'You're soldiers! You're not supposed to fight!'
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The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane,
thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being more...0 points
'What would Deftmenes be if we went around obeying orders all the time?'
'They might be ruling the Carpet,' said Pismire.
'Ha!' more...0 points
'Well ... welcome. My house is your house'
his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, "although more...0 points
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.
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When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.
Carpet People
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The story is a fine example of Pratchett's ability to view the world from a fresh perspective. If there's a fantasy novel lacking a dark forest and mysterious creatures, i've missed it. Pratchett, never a formula writer, simply shrinks the scope. His forested world is a thickly napped rug. Instead of pines or oaks, it's nylon and wool "hairs". The creatures are there, the snargs, the hymetors and others - including silverfish, who live under the world. There are also people - the Munrungs, the Deftmenes and - the Dumii. They interact, sometimes violently. Deep down in the pile, these people and their communities are invisible to humans. Something, however, sends terror through the forest peoples - Fray. This immensely destructive force topples cities and obliterates villages.
The Non-Discworld Novels
Good Omens: the review
A Narrative of Certain Events occurring in the last eleven years of human history, in strict accordance as shall be shewn with: "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter" Compiled and edited, with Footnotes of an Educational Nature and Prece
"God does not play games with His loyal servants,"
"Whoopeee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?"
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time...
The Long Earth
A science fiction series being finished together with Stephen Baxter
Guestbook
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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The Discworld Books
This page lists the entire Discworld series from first to last, grouped by approxmate timeline and more accurately by story line. If you were wondering whether Thud was a Witches or a Watch book, how many Rincewind books there were and which other characters had enough books to create a storyline. Death turns up in every single book - now there's a character who literally gets everywhere - but he also has his own series, Vetinari is only ever a suporting character, but he's probably controlling the main plot in all of them, the Monks of Time have had their own story and have tried to steal others - and more recently, the Ankh-Morpork books are becoming about everyone, more than one specific character... For a quick guide of the first book in each 'series' or character thread, check out this page from the Never Start With the First Discworld Book lens.You can also join the Wear the Lilac Facebook Group in celebration of the Glorious 25th of May - read Night Watch for the backstory, or click on the picture of Vetinari on the left!
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More Rincewind Books
Guaranteed to solve every minor problem by turning it into a major disaster.
Run, Rincewind, Run - Rincewind Videos!
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The Lancre Witches books
Mythology's jus the folktales of the people who won 'cos they had bigger swords.
The Death Books
Hogfather
Soul Music
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These books follow Death, his apprentice and adopted daughter (Mort and Ysabell) and their daughter, Susan Sto Helit.
Hogfather: The Review
"Let's see, now...in Hogfather there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.
*It's amazing how good governments are, given their track record in almost every other field, at hushing up things like alien encounters. One reason may be that the aliens themselves are too embarrassed to talk about it. It's not known why most of the space-going races of the universe want to undertake rummaging in Earthling underwear as a prelude to formal contact. But representatives of several hundred races have taken to hanging out, unsuspected by one another, in rural corners of the planet and, as a result of this, keep on abducting other would-be abductees. Some have been in fact abducted while waiting to carry out an abduction on a couple of other aliens trying to abduct the aliens who were, as a result of misunderstood instructions, trying to form cattle into circles and mutilate crops. The planet Earth is now banned to an alien races until they can compare notes and find out how many, if any, real humans they have actually got. It is gloomily suspected that there is only one who is big, hairy and has very large feet. The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
'So Hex here has caught daftness off the Bursar,' said Ridcully. 'Simple. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.'
'Of course I've read it,' said Ridcully. 'Why d'yer think I want it opened?'
'Er...why?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
'To see why they wanted it shut, of course.'† † This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilisation. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
Hogfather
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The master of humorous fantasy delivers one of his strongest, most conventional books yet. Discworld's equivalent of Santa Claus, the Hogfather (who flies in a sleigh drawn by four gigantic pigs), has been spirited away by a repulsive assassin, Mr. Teatime, acting on behalf of the Auditors who rule the universe and who would prefer that it exhibited no life. Since faith is essential to life, destroying belief in the Hogfather would be a major blow to humanity. It falls to a marvelously depicted Death and his granddaughter Susan to solve the mystery of the disapp
Soul Music: Review
SNH, SNH, SNH.
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The school encouraged fresh air, it was available in large amounts for free.
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Some peasants who wanted to stop being peasants revolted. And since the nobles won they stopped being peasants really quickly.
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Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.
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The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.
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He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal.
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Until an unfortunate axe incident, Gloria had been captain of the school basketball team.
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The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
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"Scum," said Crash, his voice low with resigned menace, "you've bought a leopard, haven't you?"
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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
Soul Music
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Nepotism is given an unusual spin in Pratchett's 14th Discworld novel, as Death's granddaughter picks up the scythe when the Grim Reaper takes a vacation. Trolls, dwarves, magicians and rock music?music played with rocks?figure in this amusing but overlong romp, which begins with the formation of a band by aspiring musician Imp y Celen (aka Buddy). Arriving in the city of Ankh-Morpork, Buddy finds a magical guitar which enables the group?a rock-playing troll, an ax-wielding dwarf and an Orangutan pianist?to drive crowds wild. But the instrument causes conflict between the motley crew and Susan, Death's granddaughter, who is just adjusting to her new post. Many of the ensuing comic situations involve Death trying to get drunk, though Pratchett's liberal application of jokes scores as many misses as hits. Extraneous plot information slows the pace as the narrative rattles to a colossal, albeit uninspired, conclusion.
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Monstrous Regiment
*upcoming* the tentatively named Snuff is the 2011 book about Vimes.
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Monstrous Regiment: Reviewed
The interests of Ankh-Morpork are the interests of all money-lov %u2014 oops, sorry, all freedom-loving people everywhere
And the new day was a great big fish.
Monstrous Regiment (For the Stage)
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What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer's simple. You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.
Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who's recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia's ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can't afford to be choosy, as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia. This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership. Off to war, Polly/Oliver learns that having a pair of, um, socks is a good way to open up doors in this man's army.
For those who haven't made this underrated author's acquaintance, Monstrous Regiment is as good a place to start as any. Readers will encounter Pratchett's subtle and disarming wit, his trademark footnoted asides along with a not-too-shabby tale of honor, courage, and duty in the face of absurd circumstances.
The von Lipwig Books
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In the latest installment to the adaptions of Terry Pratchett's award winning Discworld series, Sky One and The Mob return to Ankh-Morpork. Moist von Lipwig, the Big Wahoonie's newest civil servant, has been granted a stay of execution by Lord Havelock Vetinari. However, running the Ankh-Morpork Post Office is more dangerous than Moist bargained for. Joined by Mr. Pump, Junior Postman Tolliver Groat and his assistant Stanley Howler, Moist sets out to restore the Post Office to its former glory. His way is barred, however, by the infamous Reacher Gilt, chairman of the Grand Trunk Company. Moist also finds love, in the unexpected personification of Adora Belle Dearheart.
Starring:
Richard Coyle - Moist von Lipwig
David Suchet - Reacher Gilt
Charles Dance - Patrician Havelock Vetinari
Claire Foy - Adora Belle Dearheart
Marnix Van Den Broeke - Mr. Pump
Steve Pemberton - Drumknott
Andrew Sachs - Tolliver Groat
Tamsin Greig - Miss Cripslock
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal - Sgt. Angua
Adrian Schiller - Mr. Gryle
Making Money: The Review
This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
%u201CStand still and your mistakes catch up with you%u201D
Owlswick hesitated, and then said, 'You mean there's people who commit suicide professionally'"
Making Money (Discworld Novels)
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Moist von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. He's filling out forms, signing things, will probably get to be head of the Merchants Association next year, and he hasn't designed a stamp in months. He's so bored, in fact, that he's taken to climbing the walls of the post office and breaking into his own office. Lord Vetinari, always brilliant in his ruthlessness, recognizes an opportunity when he sees one, and offers Moist the job of running the royal mint. Moist tries to refuse, pretending that he's satisfied with the stable life, but he can't deny the urge for adventure and intrigue for long. The mint is, in the finest Ankh-Morpork tradition, a strange and oddly old-fashioned place, with bizarre traditions so ingrained the long-term employees can't imagine doing them any other way. Moist is the perfect innovator, with his wildly creative solutions to problems, for changing the way the entire city thinks about money. In the transition from the gold standard and old money, Pratchett brings up all the details that make Ankh-Morpork one of the most satisfying contemporary fantasy cities and continues in his trend of beautifully crafted, wickedly cutting satire on the underpinnings of modern human society. Making Money is smart, funny, and a thoroughly entertaining read.
The Young Adult Discworld Books
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About the Tiffany Aching books
The Stand Alone Books
Thief of Time: Review
Most of what you get taught is lies. It has to be. Sometimes if you get the truth all at once, you can%u2019t understand it
And they believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn't have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.
Thief of Time
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The Monks of History live in a Tibetan sort of area known as "enlightenment country." Their job: "to see that tomorrow happens at all." A mysterious Lady wants time-obsessed Jeremy Clockson to build a totally accurate glass clock. It will trap time and stop it, eliminating humanity's irritating unpredictability. This would make the Auditors, who observe the universe and enforce the rules governing it, very happy. It would also put Death out of a job, which the Grim Reaper isn't happy about. Fortunately, the History Monks have encountered this situation before; in fact, Lu Tze, the Sweeper, has personally dealt with it before. Even better, he has a new, gifted apprentice, Lobsang Ludd, the "thief of time." This time, they'll stop trouble before it can start! To add chaos to the mix, there's the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse--the one who quit before they became famous.
Small Gods: The Reviews
This doesn't change anything, you know! Don't think you can get round me by existing!
Blasphemy? How can I blaspheme? I%u2019m a god!
Small Gods
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Discworld is an extragavanza--among much else, it has billions of gods. "They swarm as thick as herring roe," writes Terry Pratchett in Small Gods, the 13th book in the series. Where there are gods galore, there are priests, high and low, and... there are novices. Brutha is a novice with little chance to become a priest--thinking does not come easily to him, although believing does. But it is to Brutha that the great god Om manifests, in the lowly form of a tortoise.
Unseen Academicals: The Review
The thing about football is, it's not about football
¹ i.e. up to something.
HO! The Megapode! Your Favourite Quote?
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Fun Fact:
Arthur Megapode was one of the unused names for Monty Python's Flying Circus. In Unseen Academicals it was a possibly mythical creature, that it was traditional to chase through the halls of the Unseen University every hundred years (The Hunting of the Megapode:"A veritable heyhoe-rumbledown as all fellows pursue the Megapode through the college buildings with much mirth and good spirits"). The wizards rode on the backs of Bledlows such as Alf Nobbs (no relation!) and Rincewind played the part of the Megapode... putting his natural abilities for running away very fast to good use.
A Bledlow is a university porter or guard, and usually a retired Watchman or similar.
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
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We go on saying things as if it was some kind of holy truth, when it just means that we've run out of an argument.
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Juliet's version of Cleanliness was next to godliness, which was erratic, past all understanding and seldom seen.
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I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror
It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the more...1 point
I would like you to teach them civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly
He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I thi more...1 point
Glenda
A couple of graduate wizards were working in the university more...0 points
Glenda Juliet and the Conductor
'...Just speak with a little more class, eh? You don't more...0 points
"as an eyewitness the average person is as reliable as a Meringue lifejacket"
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Why is there a certain cast of the military mind which leads sensible people to do again, with gusto, what didn't work before.
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"ANY BOY WHOSE NOT BROUGHT HIS KIT WILL PLAY IN HIS PANTS"
(Possessed Whistle... :D )0 points
Glenda thought...
"I used to be able to read you like a book--o more...0 points
'Never seen that before,' said a wine waiter beside her.
'Seen what before?'
'Seen his lordship drinking. He more...0 points
The Patrician took a sip of his beer.
"I have told this to few people, gentlemen, a more...0 points
'Well, yes, but it's not about the football.' 'You're saying that football is not about football?'
Glenda wished she'd had a proper education, or, failing more...0 points
I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
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You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.
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Unseen Academicals [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)
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Lord Vetinari decides it is time to treat football (soccer to Americans) like crime; if you are going to have it, it should be organized. Ponder Stibbons learns the power of managing the agenda and mastering tradition. Ankh-Morpork finds the Disc's first super-model, and tries to figure out exactly why this should matter to anyone. The power of pie is explored. More insinuations, inuendo, and hints as to the relationship between Lord Vetinari and a mature lady from %uFFFDberwald. And Mr. Nutt is introduced and acquires worth. Along with the usual cultural literacy exam.
Again, Terry Pratchett has outdone himself. "Unseen Academicals" is a brilliant and complex story with many threads beautifully woven together. The lives of the most powerful people in Ankh-Morpork intersect with the lives of the most humble on the Disc.
Cooks, candlemakers, and the fans and players of foot-the-ball of the neighborhoods of Ankh-Morpork find their lives turned upside down when the Wizards of U.U. find they must play soccer, or limit themselves to only three meals a day. And behind this, a humble and hard working... man, Nutt is trying to gain worth, earn respect, and make friends, none of which come naturally to him. Old characters return, one having substituted 'x' for 'cks', new characters abound. References to Shakespeare and pop culture (for lack of a better word) collide.
Short Stories Games & Misc
This final page has one theme : it is something to do with Terry Pratchett. From the list of his short stories, mostly available for free online, but not always, to the Discworld music, the calendars and Mappes (all themed accordingly - whether they be of Death's Domain, Lancre, or the Assassins Yearbook), the Discworld MUD, the computer games, the miniatures, the plays (several of the books have been adapted for the stage) or the very much worth reading Science of the Discworld series.Any of these would make fantastic gifts for the Discworld addict in your family who has Read the Lot and Wants More. Some have Squidoo reviews, most don't - but you are welcome to write one, and of course, check out the reviews on Amazon. Most of them are worth buying - the fold out maps are excellent, for example, lovingly illustrated by Paul Kidby - (with the exception of the Wit and Wisdom of the Discworld which is only worth it if you haven't read all the books, as it brings nothing new and leaves out much that is good). And of course, if you check out the Wear the Lilac page, you can buy your Discworld-lover a towel or jewelry to commemorate the 25th of May (and raise money for Alzheimer's research).
About Pterry and the Discworld ♦ The Non-Discworld Books ♦ The Discworld Books ♦ Short Stories, Games & Misc
Table of Contents - Calendars, Fandom, Games and Science
- Where to find short stories by Terry Pratchett
- Discworld Graphic Novels
- Where's My Cow
- Previews of 'Where's My Cow'
- The Annual Discworld Yearbook and Diary
- Discworld Feature Films and TV Adaptations
- Snowgum Films - Troll Bridge
- Science of the Discworld
- Discworld: The Plays
- Disworld Plays: The City Watch
- Discworld: The Mapps
- Extras for someone who already loves the Discworld books
- Discworld Extras
- Discworld Miniatures
- Discworld Games
- Discworld gaming: MUD
- GURPS Discworld Also
- Studies of fantasy
- Music From the Discworld
- Discworld Music
- Gifts For A Discworld Fan
- More Pratchett Book reviews
- Discworld Fanfiction
- Guestbook
- In case you hadn't noticed, I'm rather fond of Pratchett's books
Where to find short stories by Terry Pratchett
Discworld Graphic Novels
Where's My Cow
This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily!
Where's My Cow?
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The Annual Discworld Yearbook and Diary
A limited edition yearly diary from different Discworld Guilds and Orders
They're more worth it as a collector's item than for the content - the content is good, and amusing, but... probably not worth the collectible price simply for its reading matter (although if it's still quite recent, then it's MUCH more affordable!) The diary itself has a lot of renamed days and extra dates and facts and would be awesomely fun to use, but more of a curiousity in later years.
For example, in the Assassin's Guild Yearbook & Diary, the bulk of the content is the history of the Guild, various related anecdotes and a lot about the rules and regulations. From what I can recall, most of it is reprinted in New Discworld Companion (basically a paperback encyclopaedia)
Discworld Feature Films and TV Adaptations
The Discworld on the big screen!
However, the film rights to a handful of books have been sold, and various people have stated that they want to actually make the films of the books! There's also an upcoming television series of the City Watch.
Animated TV seriesOnly Wyrd Sisters & Soul Music generally available (together)
Live adaptations for television
Potential films
None of these are actually in production yet
Science of the Discworld
Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.
'Collecting was enormous popular among the English of this century. Bones, shells, butterflies, birds, other people's countries...'
Discworld is real. It's the way worlds should work. Admittedly, it is flat and goes through space on the back of four elephants which stand on the shell of a giant turtle, but consider the alternatives.
Consider, for example, a globular world, a mere crust upon an inferno of molten rock and iron. An accidental world, made of the wreckage of old stars, the home of life which, nevertheless, in a most unhomely fashion, is regularly scythed from its surface by ice, gas, inundation or falling rocks travelling at 20,000 miles an hour.
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The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
The Darwin family motto: cave et aude. Watch, and listen more...1 point
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Elf Queen: You have forgotten that there is no nar more...0 points
Discworld: The Plays
Disworld Plays: The City Watch
Discworld: The Mapps
Extras for someone who already loves the Discworld books
Discworld Extras
Discworld Miniatures
Discworld Games
Discworld gaming: MUD
GURPS Discworld Also
A second visit to GURPS Discworld...
GURPS Discworld Also
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In GURPS Discworld, gamers visited the strange and wonderful setting of Terry Pratchett's best-selling novels. Everyone had such a good time that we've booked a second trip! Our guide for GURPS Discworld Also will again be Phil Masters; he promises that the Dungeon Dimensions are not on the itinerary, and Mr Dibbler's meat pies are not on the menu.
You will, however, visit the Lost Continent of XXXX (and its Cart Wars), meet the Hermit Elephants and a very big troll, and go on a mission for Unseen University to find out why the Librarian's supply of bananas has dried up . . .
Studies of fantasy
More interesting books about or by Pratchett
Music From the Discworld
If you like music with more than 3 chords and intelligent, skillful arrangements then give this one a chance. And if on top of that you're into Discworld then I think you'll like Greenslade's interpretation of Terry Pratchett's work.
From the Discworld
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1. A-Tuin the Turtle Listen
2. Octarine the Colour of Magic Listen 3. Luggage Listen 4. Shades of the Ankh-Morpork Listen 5. Wyrd Sisters Listen 6. Unseen University/The Librarian Listen 7. Death Listen 8. Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End Listen 9. Dryads Listen 10. Pyramids Listen 11. Small Gods Listen 12. Stick and Bucket Dance Listen 13. One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse Listen 14. Holy Wood Dreams Listen
Discworld Music
Gifts For A Discworld Fan
More Pratchett Book reviews
Discworld Fanfiction
Because you can never have enough!
There are some very good fanfiction stories out there, written by all kinds of people. Add your favourite here, and vote for it!
To Represent the Wizzards, a Discworld fanfic - FanFiction.Net
A Discworld Humor/General fanfiction. Story summar more...0 points
Policing Middle Earth Chapter 1: Meeting with Vetinari, a Discworld and Lord of the Rings crossover fanfic - FanFiction.Net
Chapter 1 of a Discworld and Lord of the Rings - H more...0 points
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Jan 11, 2012 @ 1:47 pm | delete
- Here are some angel blessings for your very painstaking and detailed coverage of works by Terry Pratchett - well done. I have a hardback first edition of Soul Music (Gollancz) - if anyone wants it, please contact me
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- Great lens, a lot of effort went in to it and it really shows. A great resource to check on how my collection is coming.
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- Great lens, great schiolarship, excellent reading - Angel Blessed
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- One of my favorite authors - terrific, funny (often wise) books.
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- For a prolific author like Terry Pratchett, a lensography is a great idea. I like the way you've organized this and I can see it growing.
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into repo
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- No need to tell you that the man is a genius...you have covered his cannon comprehensively ... his books contain spot on insight. Fantastic lwns. 5*
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- Nice job on this lens! Thanks for featuring one of my lenses, perhaps you'd also consider featuring my Discworld Giftshop lens, for all things discworld related! http://www.squidoo.com/Discworld_Giftshop
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