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Only you can save mankind
Johnny find his computer game is all too real!
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10/2006
Pyramids
Teppic, a king's son, decides to attend Assassin school. That's the first part of the book. I wasn't thoroughly enchanted with the story, but there were some good parts. I wish my eyes didn't get tired of read paperback-size books.
The author has Teppic using crampons to climb walls. I've seen this discussed about another author, and someone on a forum said they looked in the OED to find that crampon was an archaic word for a sort of piton. Maybe. I think Prachett should have gone with piton.
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12/2018
Raising Steam
The railroad comes to the Discworld. I got an ARC to read four weeks before it goes on sale! I enjoyed it very much, too!
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2/2014
Small Gods
Neophyte novice Brutha comes across a turtle who is his God. Maybe.
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9/2009
Snuff
Vimes goes on a little vacation to his wife's country home.
Words I Had To Look Up:
mutton avec no talking (pg. 93) -- It's french, means "with". Should have known this from the song lyric Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)? from that Labelle song.
stack of wood licker wicker hurdles (pg. 50) -- On a Terry Prachett forum there is some discussion of this. Possibly a printer's error, in the Transworld edition the phrase is "wood like".
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1/2013
The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents
A talking cat and some talking rats (and a stupid boy) work a con.
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3/2005
The Color Of Magic
The first book in the Discworld series. We learn about Rincewind, Twoflower, and the luggage.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Obloquy (pg. 23) -- The condition of one that is discredited.
Dovecote (pg. 103) -- A small compartmented raised house or box for domestic pigeons.
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10/2008Read:
1/2013
The Fifth Element
Vimes goes to Uberwald to represent Ankh-Morpork at a coronation.
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12/2004
The Last Continent
The wizard Rincewind ends up in a place very like Australia.
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1/2005
The Long Earth
Co-author Stephen Baxter. There are zillions of parallel Earths, and all you need is an easily made electronic device to get to them. Some people don't even need that. But some people can't do it at all, and some of them resent the ones who can. My favorite character is the cat.
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7/2013
The Science Of Discworld
With Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. The Science Of Discworld #1. I may have read this before, but not sure... The wizards at the Unseen University build a round world in an experiment. With commentary by real scientists.
Quote:
The little lizard-like creatures that had hatched from the eggs in the mound slithered and slid down the bank into the water, bright-eyed and hopeful. The first few were instantly snapped up by a large male lying in wait among the weeds.
'However, the mothers still have something to learn about postnatal care,' said Ridcully.Quote:
'...Lots of dullness, punctuated by short periods of death.'
'Ook?' said the Librarian.Read:
5/2023
The Truth
A fellow starts up what turns out to be the first newspaper in Ankn-Morpork.
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1/2005
The Wee Free Men
A young girl, Tiffany Aching, rescues her country from the Elf Queen or Faerie Queen, I not sure which.
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3/2005
Thief Of Time
A clockmaker builds a clock that stops time, I think.
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1/2005
Thud!
The dwarves and the trolls are apparently going to re-enact a horrific battle right in Ankh-Morpork. Not good for Vimes and the watch.
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12/2005
Unseen Academicals
Unseen University is manipulated into fielding a team to compete in the "football" league.
Words I Had To Look Up:
benison (pg. 58) -- A spoken blessing.
a shonky shop (pg. 74) -- A poor or dubious quality.
the university's bledlows (pg. 73) -- The author is credited with definition it as a proctor.
pounces (pg. 268) -- from Word of the Day "600 years ago only the rear facing claw was a talon while one or all of the front facing claws were instead pounces." Good to know!
Quote:
"Beauty can be considered to be neutral, sir. It is not the same as nice or good." --Nutt (pg. 194)
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10/2010
Wintersmith
The elemental spirit of winter gets a crush on Tiffany. Very good, kept reading parts out loud.
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1/2007
The Magic Thief
Conn becomes the apprentice of the cranky wizard Nevery. He figures out that someone is stealing the magic of the town. Even though there is a map and appendices, this story never really came together for me.
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12/2009
Bleeders
A fake blackmail goes wrong. I think this is an expansion of one of those short stories I read. One of the best of the series I've read, so far.
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6/2010
Boobytrap
I was hoping this was going to be girls, but instead, it is about a guy who is building bombs to blowup everyone who ever crossed him. Nameless goes fishing in the mountains. Of course, the bomb-guy is there.
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7/2010
20 books displayed
[Palacio - Park] [Park - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pease] [Pease - Peyton] [Peyton - Pope] [Porter - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pullman - Pynchon]