Search Results for "Terry Pratchett": 32 results
Gaiman, Neil, and Terry Pratchett: Good Omens: Another book I've been reading piecemeal, though over longer than this week, is Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. There's a spare copy of this in the car for when we get stuck in traffic, for me to read...
Gaiman, Neil, and Terry Pratchett: Good Omens (completed read): I finished that piecemeal re-read of Pratchett & Gaiman's Good Omens last night, on the grounds that reading the fat in-progress three-volume omnibus at bedtime was just asking for trouble (I tend to lose track of time. . .)....
Pratchett, Terry, with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: Science of Discworld, The: The Science of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen works quite well as a bedtime/filler book. Chad's book log entry describes the basic setup very well, so I'll just mention a couple of things that I...
Pratchett, Terry: (03) Equal Rites: I was looking for something fast and light about the time I finished Monstrous Regiment, so I decided to re-read Equal Rites to see how Pratchett dealt with gender issues in a very early Discworld novel. In Equal Rites, a...
Pratchett, Terry: (07) Pyramids: I tried listening to Terry Pratchett's Pyramids as an audiobook, but Nigel Planer's narration just wasn't working for me (all the characters sounded stupid). But since I'd started it, I picked it up in print just to remind myself how...
Pratchett, Terry: (08) Guards! Guards!: I brought Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! with me over Christmas because I knew family holidays tend to be somewhat hectic, and re-reading in those circumstances works better than reading. Besides, I'd been meaning to re-read the Watch books after...
Pratchett, Terry: (13) Small Gods (radio play): Small Gods is one of my favorite books in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It's a humanist examination of religion (I don't think that's necessarily a contradiction in terms), set in a theocracy where the Great God Om woke up one...
Pratchett, Terry: (14) Lords and Ladies: I spent a lot of time over the weekend wandering around trying to figure out what I was in the mood for. Watching The Last Seduction wasn't it; though it's pretty amazing to watch Linda Fiorentino's character and how...
Pratchett, Terry: (15) Men At Arms: Several nights ago, I picked up Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett, because I didn't want to start reading The Paths of the Dead before bed (for fear that I would be up all night reading the whole thing....
Pratchett, Terry: (18) Maskerade: After re-reading Lords and Ladies, I gave into the urge to re-read the rest of Terry Pratchett's Witch sub-series of Discworld books, starting with the next, Maskerade. This is probably funnier if you know Phantom of the Opera well, or...
Pratchett, Terry: (19) Feet of Clay: Continuing the re-read of Terry Pratchett's Guards books, we have Feet of Clay. This is the third, after Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms. I generally think of this as one of my favorites. However, it rather suffers from...
Pratchett, Terry: (20) Hogfather: Before Thanksgiving, I was feeling stressed and overly-sensitive; thus, when I grabbed books to take with me, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather was a natural choice. It's seasonal, being about the Discworld's equivalent of Christmas, and the better Discworld books are always...
Pratchett, Terry: (21) Jingo: I picked up my long-interrupted re-read of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, City Watch sub-series, with Jingo. As I suspected in reading Feet of Clay, Carrot's POV is dropped completely in this book, though he's still not perfect ("Mr. Spuddy," anyone?)....
Pratchett, Terry: (23) Carpe Jugulum: I don't have much to say about Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, which I re-read after Maskerade. My previous review was a little generous, as time has made me less tolerant of the similarity in plot to Lords and Ladies. Other...
Pratchett, Terry: (24) The Fifth Elephant (audio): The transformation of Carrot is complete in The Fifth Elephant, which is the fifth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books to feature him and the rest of the City Watch. Not only is he possibly—but not certainly—unnaturally good, but he doesn't...
Pratchett, Terry: (25) The Truth: Oh, and after reading Going Postal, I re-read The Truth, wondering if it was too similar, being a stand-alone about the starting of Ankh-Morpork's newspaper industry. I don't think it is; the plot of the book, which is Yet Another...
Pratchett, Terry: (26) Thief of Time: I'd read Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time before when it came out, but I'd had the Apocalypse on my mind because of Good Omens, and as Thief features the Fifth Horseman, it seemed like a good pick. This is...
Pratchett, Terry: (26) Thief of Time (re-read); (29) Night Watch: I had been putting off reading Terry Pratchett's new Discworld book, Night Watch, because I was afraid that it would suck up too much of my valuable sleep time while I was so busy. The night I found out...
Pratchett, Terry: (27) The Last Hero: What an odd damn holiday. It was the sort of thing the phrase "mixed bag" was invented to describe, or to put it another way, it was rather like the little girl: when it was good, it was very...
Pratchett, Terry: (28) The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: Finished Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld book, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, yesterday. This is a putative Young Adult novel; you can tell Pratchett's YAs from his adult novels because 1) the YAs are a bit shorter; 2)...
Pratchett, Terry: (29) Night Watch (audio): Some time ago I finished my re-listen of the Discworld books' City Watch subseries with Night Watch, narrated by Stephen Briggs. When I first read this, I didn't think the time-travel sections had a coherent plot. Audio helped me pay...
Pratchett, Terry: (30) The Wee Free Men: I know I said I was going to read the sequel to Goblin Moon next, but when I said that, I didn't know that there was a new Terry Pratchett novel out, namely The Wee Free Men—and I drop...
Pratchett, Terry: (31) Monstrous Regiment: Monstrous Regiment is the latest Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, in which a woman joins the army in disguise and learns much in the process. I think I can best sum up my attitude toward this book by saying...
Pratchett, Terry: (32) A Hat Full of Sky: My reaction on finishing Terry Pratchett's A Hat Full of Sky was two-part: Gosh, you'd think he'd have run out of things to say about the nature of witches, after six books about the Lancre witches and the prior...
Pratchett, Terry: (33) Going Postal (text, audio): Combining audiobook logging and backlog catchup, we have Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, read by Stephen Briggs. I read this when it first came out, and then listened to it several months later. Going Postal is a stand-alone Discworld novel,...
Pratchett, Terry: (34) Thud!: Terry Pratchett's newest Discworld book is called Thud!; it's named after a chess-like game where the sides are trolls and dwarfs. It's the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley, at which the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the...
Pratchett, Terry: (35) Wintersmith: Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld book, Wintersmith, is the third Tiffany Aching book and something I've been slavering after since 2004, when I heard him read from it at Noreascon. He ended his reading an evil cliffhanger; I think he'd intended...
Pratchett, Terry: (36) Making Money: Terry Pratchett's Making Money is a sequel to Going Postal. Having gotten the Post Office working smoothly, Moist von Lipwig is going crazy with boredom. Nevertheless, he's turned down Lord Vetinari's offer to run the Royal Bank, when external events...
Pratchett, Terry: Bromeliad, The (Truckers, Diggers, Wings) (audio): I listened to Terry Prachett's Bromeliad (Truckers, Diggers, Wings) recently. As I said last time I read it, I really like these books. I'd forgotten, until listening, just how broad the problems faced by the nomes are, principally how to...
Pratchett, Terry: Carpet People, The; The Bromeliad: Having finished with The Fiery Cross, for the first time in a month I didn't know what I was reading next—and what's worse, couldn't decide what I felt like reading. (This is about level on my annoyance scale with,...
Pratchett, Terry: Nation: Terry Pratchett's latest novel, Nation, is a non-Discworld fantasy. Set on an island in the Great Pelagic Ocean (a slightly alternate version of the Pacific) in the 19th century, it opens with a tsunami that kills every member of The...
Pratchett, Terry: Only You Can Save Mankind (audio); Johnny and the Dead; Johnny and the Bomb: More backlog catchup, Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy. I'd been vaguely meaning to re-read this for a while, and bumped it up my list after the news that Pratchett had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Yes, as he said, he's...