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Diggers

Terry Pratchett

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The story goes on from Pratchett's "TRUCKERS" 5 out of 5 stars.
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At the end of "TRUCKERS" by Terry Pratchett. Maskerlin and the gnomes of the doomed supermarket floor boards, escaped into the outside world, with Maskerlin driving a lorry carrying the gnomes. After the famous epic, A new adventure has dawned, The Gnomes from the lost supermarket lead by the heroic Maskerlin, make a new home inside the devastated buildings of a old quarry. The Gnomes begin to face a nightmare reality, as things suddenly happen, as their home has rain fall from the Earth's sky, in ice drops and the humans start causing chaos. But the Gnomes as a band of colonists, are brought toghere to protect their new home from humans in the horizon who have the help of a beast named Jekub. This is the best follow-up to Terry Pratchett's Gnome classic "TRUCKERS".

Impossible to put down! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This the second book of the Bromeliad trilogy (following Truckers and followed by Wings).

After escaping from the doomed Store of Arnold Bros (est. 1905), the nomes find refuge in a disused quarry. And although life's harder Outside than it was in the Store, after a while everything goes well... until they find out that the quarry is going to be reopened.

At the same time, they also learn that Grandson Richard, 39, an heir to the Arnold Bros (est. 1905) fortune, is going to Florida to watch the launch of his first telecom satellite. To Masklin it's an oportunity to send the Thing back into space where it could contact the Ship which will bring them back HOME. And so he sets out, with Gurder and Angalo, on a trip to the airport.

And as the rest of the nomes are waiting for them to come back, their food reserves are inexorably running out and the humans' presence is starting to be a real nuisance. Are they going to flee and hide or are they going to stand up to them?

As expected, Diggers is brilliant and extremely funny. And again, the confrontation between the nomes' and our view of the world is the source of many of the typically "Pratchettian" puns we've all come to love!

Diggers

Terry Pratchett, Lyn Pratchett

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Johnny and the Dead

Terry Pratchett

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Johnny and the Dead (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy)

Terry Pratchett

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A great YA novel with humour and ghosts. 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is the sequel to "Only You Can Save Mankind." Johnny, a teen outside the crowd, makes friends with the ultimate outsiders - the ghosts from the local cemetary. Trying to convince his motley collection of living friends they exist and later trying to save the cemetary from the bulldozers of progress!! This book should not be out of print.

Johnny and the Dead (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy)

Terry Pratchett

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You don't really live until you're dead 5 out of 5 stars.
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Johnny Maxwell is just a normal twelve-year old kid, or at least he tries to be. Things just seem to happen to him that don't happen to anyone else - aliens inside a computer game surrender to him and name him their Chosen One, for example (as told in the first book of this series). Compared to that adventure, seeing dead people almost seems rather prosaic. The Trying Times Johnny has been living in have advanced past his parents' shouting and Being Sensible About Things to Phase 3, which sees him now living with his grandfather. He often takes a short cut to school through a local cemetery, and it is there that he meets the Alderman, the long dead and buried Alderman. His friends Yo-less, Bigmac, and Wobbler can't see dead people the way Johnny suddenly can, but events soon convince them that Johnny isn't just fooling around with them. Johnny meets all of the dead people in the cemetery, all of whom are quite put out when they learn that their cemetery, a place which the rules of being dead say they cannot leave, has been sold by the city (for only five pence) to a corporation planning on building office buildings there. Since Johnny is the only human who can see them (and why Johnny can see them is rather a mystery, although the Alderman thinks it is because he is too lazy not to see them), the dead look to him to save their eternal resting place. Stopping a big corporation from doing something the city has granted them the legal right to do is no easy task, especially for a twelve-year-old boy and his friends, but Johnny is wonderfully resourceful.

The ending of this book didn't have much spark to it, but overall Johnny and the Dead is an even better read than the first Johnny Maxwell novel Only You Can Save Mankind. It also rings quite distinctly at times of the type of humor showcased by the author in his Discworld novels. There is one bit early on that is just hilarious. Wobbler puts the idea in Johnny's head that dead people basically lurch around like the zombie types in Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and this indirectly leads to the Alderman trying to moonwalk in the cemetery. The dead people as a whole put a lot of life into this book, oddly enough. Among the fascinating, entertaining dead folks we meet are an ardent suffragette, an inventor who is quite proficient at manipulating electronic equipment, a brilliant man named Einstein - Solomon Einstein the taxidermist, and a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist who is quite disappointed at the way things have gone in the world since his death. The vibrant personalities of the dead men and women more often than not clash in a number of very funny ways as they all try to cope with modern life or the lack of it.

This book does stand up fairly well on its own, but the characterization of Johnny and his friends is not detailed enough for you to really get to know them without having read Only You Can Save Mankind already. This is considered juvenile fiction, but as with everything Terry Pratchett writes, men and women of all ages, providing they have at least a nascent sense of humor, will find much to enjoy and laugh about in these pages.

Johnny and the Dead CD

Terry Pratchett

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Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies ...Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetary as a building site. But the dead aren't going to take it lying down ...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were ...well ...alive. Particularly if they break a few rules ...

Thief of Time (Discworld Novel)

Terry Pratchett

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Steal some time for Pratchett 5 out of 5 stars.
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Rule #1: "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"

When young, orphaned Lobsang Ludd of the Time Monks is apprenticed to the monastery's little bald wrinkly smiling sweeper he is at first disappointed. Then he learns who Lu-Tze really is: a sweeper, yes; but also a renowned patcher-upper of time.

Time has already been stopped once in the Universe, which had the effect of shattering history into millions of detached fragments. Only Lu-Tze and the Time Monks were able to patch the pieces back together again.

Now someone else is once again building the perfect clock that will stop Time for good. This time the Universe will be destroyed if he is not caught. Unfortunately no one, not even Death seems to know where to find the clock-builder.

Death calls on his fellow riders, War, Pestilence, and Famine to get ready for the Ride at the End of Time, and delegates the task of finding the clock maker to his grand-daughter, Susan.

Meanwhile Lu-Tze and his apprentice, Lobsang are also on the trail of the man who would stop the Universe.

Will they find him in time? Or out of time?

"Thief of Time" is crammed with word-play, sly shards of philosophy (see Rule #1), and countless subplots (there is a Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse named Ronnie, who runs a dairy in his spare time). It's like reading a land mine. I'll usually be a couple of sentences beyond the point where something blew up in my face, before I mutter, "what the hell happened?"

For example, "it never rains but it pours."

A jug.

Steal some time for Pratchett. This book is one of his best.

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Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there’s never enough time.

But the construction of the world’s first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone’s problems.
Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).


From the Compact Disc edition.

Thief of Time (Discworld)

Terry Pratchett

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Time flies when you're reading Pratchett 5 out of 5 stars.
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Rule #1: "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"

When young, orphaned Lobsang Ludd of the Time Monks is apprenticed to the monastery's little bald wrinkly smiling sweeper he is at first disappointed. Then he learns who Lu-Tze really is: a sweeper, yes; but also a renowned patcher-upper of time.

Time has already been stopped once in the Universe, which had the effect of shattering history into millions of detached fragments. Only Lu-Tze and the Time Monks were able to patch the pieces back together again.

Now someone else is once again building the perfect clock that will stop Time for good. This time the Universe will be destroyed if he is not caught. Unfortunately no one, not even Death seems to know where to find the clock-builder.

Death calls on his fellow riders, War, Pestilence, and Famine to get ready for the Ride at the End of Time, and delegates the task of finding the clock maker to his daughter, Susan.

Meanwhile Lu-Tze and his apprentice, Lobsang Ludd are also on the trail of the man who would stop the Universe.

Will they find him in time? Or out of time?

"Thief of Time" is crammed with word-play, sly shards of philosophy (see Rule #1), and countless subplots (there is a Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse named Ronnie, who runs a dairy in his spare time). It's like reading a land mine. I'll usually be a couple of sentences beyond the point where something blew up in my face, before I mutter, "what the hell happened?"

For example, "it never rains but it pours."

A jug.

Steal some time for Pratchett. This book is one of his best.

Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett

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There're a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next ...an' they need watchin' ...'There's trouble on the Wold, its boundaries weak since Granny Aching - the hag o' the hills - died. Now all there is to stop the nightmares from taking over is young Tiffany Aching, who's learning fast about duty, about responsibility and about who she is and what she is. Luckily she's got the help of the Nac Mac Feegle - a band of tiny, disreputable pictsies known as the Wee Free Men. They'll fight anything ...

The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy: Only You Can Save Mankind; Johnny and the Dead; Johnny and the Bomb

Terry Pratchett

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