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Violent Peace

Poyer, David
The war is pretty much over. Pretty much.

Quote:

Ta pocketa.

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9/2023

Winter In The Heart

Poyer, David
An old man and a boy try to figure out who is dumping toxic chemicals.

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8/1998

Eve's Tattoo

Prager, Emily
Interesting story of Eve who gets the number of a concentration camp victim tattooed for her fortieth birthday.

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12/2000

A Blink Of The Screen

Pratchett, Terry
Collected shorter fiction. Some of it was OK, some pretty interesting, but the story titles The Sea And Little Fishes was exquisitely written, and I was very teary for a goodly portion of the story. And the "bonus" chapter, if not more so.

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6/2017

A Hat Full Of Sky

Pratchett, Terry
A young girl witch, Tiffany Aching, has a big battle. Very good.

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3/2005

Carpe Jugulum

Pratchett, Terry
Vampires are invited to the christening, as it were, of the royal baby in Lancre. Big mistake!

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1/2005

Dodger

Pratchett, Terry
A London tosher rescues a beautiful girl from a beating at the hands scoundrels. Not a Discworld book.

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8/2013

Feet Of Clay

Pratchett, Terry
Golems are holding secret meetings.

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12/2004

Guards! Guards!

Pratchett, Terry
A dragon comes to Ankh-Morpork, and Vimes has to deal with it. Also, Carrot joins the force. Vimes has his hands full.

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3/2015

I Shall Wear Midnight

Pratchett, Terry
The fourth Tiffany Aching novel is the best story I have read in a long time. So much to think about! I found myself weeping at times, and laughing out loud at others.

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3/2011

Jingo

Pratchett, Terry
Ankh-Morpork goes to war over an island.

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9/2016

Johnny and the dead

Pratchett, Terry
Johnny finds he is the only person who can see dead people at the cemtary. Very good.

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10/2006

Lords And Ladies

Pratchett, Terry
Elves come to Lancre. And Elves are BAD! Very good!

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3/2005

Making Money

Pratchett, Terry
Moist is maneuvered into assisting the dog that is chairman of the Royal Bank.

Words I Had To Look Up:


panopticon (pg. 56) -- an area where everything is visible.
fornication (pg. 58) -- vaulted roofing or covering. Trust me.
beccles (pg. 109) -- the small bone buttons placed in bacon sandwiches by unemployed guerrilla dentists, from The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
pecunious (pg. 122) -- abounding in money; wealthy.
mountebank (pg. 127) -- any charlatan or quack.
frisson (pg. 143) -- a sudden, passing sensation of excitement; a shudder of emotion; thrill.
mendacity (pg. 148) -- 1. The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness. 2. A lie; a falsehood.
charivari (pg. 155) -- a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple. But from http://www.charivarirest.com/ (and nowhere else) we have 'Charivari is a French word for "beautiful good mix"', which seems more what the author was thinking of.
dunnikin (pg. 157) -- a privy.
gongfermor (pg. 157) -- the people who emptied cesspits in Medieval villages or castles.
tumbrel (pg 236) -- a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

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"Nom d'une bouilloire! Pourquoi est-ce que je suis hardiment ri sous cape a par le dieux"? translates as "Name of a kettle! Why am I boldly laughed under cape has by the gods "? (pgs. 110-111)

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"An error, sir, is worse than a sin, the reason being that a sin is often a matter of opinion or viewpoint or even of timing but an error is a fact and it cries out for correction."

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"I can assure you that if I had, as your ill-assumed street patois has it, 'dropped you in it,' you would fully understand all meanings of 'drop' and have an unenviable knowledge of 'it.'"

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11/2007

Maskerade

Pratchett, Terry
The two witches visit the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork where Agnes is attempting to be a star!

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7/2005

Monstrous Regiment

Pratchett, Terry
Polly joins the army in disguise as a man. Very good.

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12/2004

Nation

Pratchett, Terry
On a small island not in the Pacific Ocean a tsunami wipes out the entire population, except for one teen and shipwrecked English girl. Very good!

Quote:

"Does not happen!" -- pg. 73.

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12/2009

Night Watch

Pratchett, Terry
Sam Vines goes back in time(s).

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1/2005

Only you can save mankind

Pratchett, Terry
Johnny find his computer game is all too real!

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10/2006

Pyramids

Pratchett, Terry
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
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[Abadzis - Addison] [Aiken - Alexander] [Alexie - Anderson] [Anderson - Asimov] [Asimov - Backman] [Backman - Baldree] [Balf - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Bender] [Benedict - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Bohjalian] [Bond - Bova] [Bowen - Briody] [Brodie - Buchanan] [Buck - Bujold] [Bujold - Cain] [Cain - Card] [Card - Carlson editor] [Carr - Chambers] [Chambers - Choldenko] [Clagett - Clarke] [Clearly - Cody] [Coel - Colfer] [Colfer - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Constantine] [Constantine - Corcoran] [Corder - Cornwell] [Cornwell - Crais] [Crais - Crichton] [Crichton - Curry] [Curtis - Cussler] [Dahl - Dean] [Deaver - Disilverio] [Dixon - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Dowell] [Dozois - Duncan] [Dunning - Elkins] [Elkins - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Fairstein - Ferris] [Ferris - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flynn] [Foer - Fournier] [Fournier - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Freedman] [Freedman - Gaiman] [Gaiman - Gayle] [Geist - Gold] [Goldberg - Grafton] [Grafton - Grant] [Grant - Greenwald] [Greer - Grimes] [Grimes - Haddix] [Haddix - Hale] [Hale - Hallinan] [Hallinan - Harland] [Harper - Hebden] [Hebden - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Henry] [Henry - Herriot] [Herriot - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hillerman] [Hillerman - Hobb] [Hobb - Hornung] [Hornung - Huff] [Huff - Jemisin] [Jemisin - Jones] [Jones - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Kellog] [Kellog - King] [King - Klise] [Klise - Kowal] [Kowal - Lampman] [Lampman - Lawrence] [Lawrence - Lee] [Lee - Lescroart] [Lescroart - Lindsay] [Lindsay - Long] [Lord - Lowry] [Lu - MacDonald] [Mackintosh - Mallios] [Malzberg - Martin] [Martin - Mass] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCrumb] [McCrumb - Mcmanus] [Mcmanus - MiĆ©ville] [Mikaelsen - Moon] [Moon - Morden] [Moriarty - Muller] [Mulligan - Nimmo] [Nimmo - Norton] [Norton - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Conner] [O'Connor - Owens] [Palacio - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Patterson] [Patterson - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pennac] [Penney - Pickard] [Picoult - Powell] [Powell - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Prior] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pullman - Quinn] [Quinn - Reeve] [Reeve - Riggs] [Ringo - Robinson] [Robinson - Rowling] [Rowling - Russo] [Russo - Savin] [Sawyer - Scalzi] [Scarborough - Scott] [Scott - See] [Seiple - Shields] [Shriver - Sleator] [Sleator - Snicket] [Snicket - Standiford] [Stanhope - Stephenson] [Stephenson - Stratton-Porter] [Stratton-Porter - Stross] [Stroud - Tapply] [Tapply - Tolan] [Tolkien - Turtledove] [Turtledove - Van Draanen] [Van Draanen - Villasenor] [Voltaire - Watts] [Weber - Weeks] [Weir - Wells] [Werlin - Westlake] [Westlake - Wiles] [Wiles - Wise] [Wister - Woodruff] [Woodruff - Zahn] [Zevin - Zusak] 

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