- Published: New York : New American Library, c1989.
- Year Published: 1989
- Description: 253 p. ; 18 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0061020672 (pbk.) :
- 0451162331 (pbk.) :
Series
Subjects
- Discworld (Imaginary place)
- Postal service -- Fiction.
- Civil service -- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Satire.
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gods funny humor diskworld satire night watch golem death sergeant fred colon metaphor witch ankh morpork fun undead comedy watch soul dwarfs the shades sergeants magic magical dwarf wizard disk world trolls patrician
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my beloved diskworld
To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.
I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.
I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.
I recommend reading them ALL.
OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.
I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.
I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.
I recommend reading them ALL.
OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.
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