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Good Omens
Bookwitch —
Authority: 127
Should I have words with the person who told me that Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman was nothing special? I wouldn’t have delayed reading it for so long, had I not been convinced it was a perfectly missable book. Couldn’t quite work out why it should be thus, since neither Neil nor Terry have a habit ...10 hours ago -
Trailer Tuesday: Nation
CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus —
Authority: 424
After ten years of Discworld , Terry Pratchett ( Sir Terence Pratchett ) has created a very different world in Nation (2008). Set in n a parallel universe rather like our 19th century South Pacific this is a multi-faceted disaster-survival / coming-of-age story that explores many themes. There is no book ...2 days ago -
The significance and drawbacks of stories
Sporting Madness —
Authority: 123
An omnipresent but under-discussed element of sports in our modern era is the significance of the story. We often tend to think of stories as just factual representations of what goes on in a game, but the sheer amount of action involved in sports means they have to be both more and less then that. A breakdown of ...2 days ago -
Book Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Grasping for the Wind —
Authority: 136
# Genre: Comic Fantasy, Fantasy, Satire # Hardcover: 400 pages # Publisher: Harper # Publication Date: October 6, 2009 # ISBN-10: 0061161705 # ISBN-13: 978-0061161704 # Author Website: Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett continues his pattern of taking something from the real world, twisting it to fit in the Discworld ...3 days ago -
The stories we read and write
Day By Day Writer —
Authority: 121
Revision update: It’s coming along. I’m still working on the first eight chapters, where I split one chapter into two, and cut down the others a LOT. I still have some research to finish up that could mean I’ll be making changes, but I feel like I’m making some progress, although small steps. Would still love ...5 days ago -
Losing Our Heads Over Modest Gods
Running After My Hat —
Authority: 116
[Above, a set of miniature Egyptian canopic jars depicting, according to the retailer, "Anubis, Horus, Monkey God, Prince."* Click image for original.]From whiskey river (which this week celebrated eight years of bringing to the Web wisdom about things we generally know, but generally do not speak of):ShintoWhen ...6 days ago -
Book Review: Unseen Academicals
Fandomania —
Authority: 529
Title: Unseen Academicals Author: Terry Pratchett Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: October 6, 2009 In the latest installment of the books set within the realm of the Discworld, Terry Pratchett takes on a topic that many of his fellow Englishmen, and possibly Englishwomen, hold in a ...6 days ago -
Guardian Review Book club with Terry Pratchett
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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Discworld creator to appear at Guardian book club on 14 December at Kings Place, London Join us for a very special Book club with Terry Pratchett , who will talk about his 37th Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and ...1 week ago -
Unseen Academicals
ROBERT WYATT AND STUFF —
Authority: 131
It´s been two years since the previous Discworld book ("Making Money") and one year since the previous book for young readers (that´s me included) ("Nation"), and now Sir Terry Pratchett´s new Discworld novel "Unseen Academicals" (Doubleday 2009) is in the shops. This time Pratchett takes a look at football (foot ...1 week ago -
Read: October 2009
Sharp Words —
Authority: 108
Thud! , Terry Pratchett. Own copy. Comfort reading while I was feeling lousy with a heavy cold. Feersum Endjin , Iain M Banks. Borrowed(?) copy, first read. Another delivery from my Dad. Not sure I liked this one – it exposed to me how much I skim when I read, because of all the passages written phonetically. Plus ...1 week ago -
Theatre trotting in November
Feigned Mischief —
Authority: 91
I know, I know, this blog has been uber neglected in the last couple of months and I have no excuses apart from I have been really busy work wise, and then I was away on holiday for the most part of last month and the lack of Simon Russell Beale in any of my [...]1 week ago -
Top 5 Abstinent Vampires: No. 1 — Maladict
The Blogs at HowStuffWorks FanStuff —
Authority: 117
Our last vampire is fighting an undeniable thirst. The kind of thirst that leads to hallucinations when left unquenched. And theyre not just ordinary hallucinations . Theyre flashsides -- someone elses flashbacks. Maladict, from Terry Pratchetts "Monstrous Regiment," is a lance corporal in Borogravian infantry, but ...1 week ago -
Unseen Academicals
Fantasy Folder —
Authority: 91
For I am the crowd and I am the ball I am the triumph and the blame I am the turf, the pies, the All Always and ever, I am the Game. It matters not who won or lost Nothing is the score you made Fame is a petal that curls in the frost But I will remember how you played. In Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld ...2 weeks ago -
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
things mean a lot —
Authority: 547
Most Discworld books have complex plots that are notoriously difficult to summarize, and Unseen Academicals is no exception. This is the story of the revival of football in the city of Ankh-Mopork, which begins when Unseen University creates its very own team. It’s also the story of Mr Nutt, who thinks he’s a ...2 weeks ago -
It’s My Fantasy and I’ll . . .
Magical Musings —
Authority: 127
. . . write in deep third person POV if I want to. I picked up a book at the library and it looked fab. A fantasy that had all the elements I look for. And then I read it. Sigh. Why, why, why do so few fantasy writers use deep third POV? So many go for the more omniscient style, and it really makes me much less ...2 weeks ago -
Damn Those Little Blue Kinokuniya Stickers
Eye on Everything —
Authority: 464
I was in Kinokuniya just now. Big mistake. I was there looking for the new Terry Pratchett book, Unseen Academicals . I found it, but they only had the crappy US cover, and the UK one was out of stock. SIIGGHH. I should have left, just then. But NOOOO, being the glutton for punishment and sucker for books that ...2 weeks ago -
Jingo (Terry Pratchett)
Stuff —
Authority: 128
Jingo is the fourth of the Discworld novels about the City Watch by Terry Pratchett [ reviews of the others here ]. Plot: An island suddenly appears right between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch and triggers territorial disputes. When an attack on the Klatchian Prince happens in Ankh-Morpork, people prepare for war. ...2 weeks ago -
The oracle speaks
The Plashing Vole: parataxis —
Authority: 141
I keep trying to explain to students that reality is a narrative constructed by the individual, influenced by his or her cultural context to explain events. It rarely goes in. Now I find that Terry Pratchett made the same point much more clearly in Moving Pictures : What was it they said about gods? They wouldnt ...2 weeks ago -
REX - A soldiers best friend - or Rincewinds "luggage" brought to life?
Not a sheep —
Authority: 148
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) REX is a small robotic platform designed to accompany ground forces on operations and can carry up to 200 kilograms, catering for groups of 3-10 troops on operational and logistical missions for up to 72 hours without refueling, REX acts as a robotic “beast of burden” for the ...2 weeks ago -
Book Review – Terry Pratchett’s ‘Unseen Academicals’
Randomize ME —
Authority: 556
Book Synopsis:(Book 32 in the Discworld series) Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go boing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a ...2 weeks ago
