The author Terry Pratchett – whose novels have sold millions of copies worldwide – has been made a knight in the New Year Honours list.-BBC News Following in the footsteps of the likes of The Beatles and Sting, as well as 598 other worthy individuals this year, Terry Pratchett has become a Member of The Order of the British Empire. Sir Terry , 60, best known for his hugely popular Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, has sold more than 55 million books worldwide. A few years ago there was an Alzheimer’s study of a bunch of nuns. This study…
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Going Postal-Another Disc World Book
Terry Pratchett is a very funny writer-but to honest I like the audio book versions of his Discworld books better than the paper ones. While it is true that they both contain, more or less, the same exact words-the audio books have the considerable talents of Stephen Briggs-who does a really good job of bringing those words to life. I am a great fan of accents-all kinds of accents-I can speak in a vast multitude of funny, odd, silly, and often totally incomprehensible voices. I have been told that I ought to have an audio edition of my blog and…
Making Money-The Discworld Way
Making Money by Terry Pratchett is the 33rd book in the Discworld series. This is the latest of the Disc World books, the unending story of a coin shaped world that travels through space supported by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle. The people that dwell on this world are a little bit silly themselves. There are vampires, werewolves, wizards, Death, and a wide and varied assortment of gods of one sort or another. There also seems to be a Guild for everything imaginable, from the Fools Guild to the Assassins Guild. And well, if there…
The Hogfather on Ion TV
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series has been around for a long time, like since 1983. The fact that I have heard of it, but never read any of the 38 novels about a coin shaped world floating on the backs of four elephants supported by a giant turtle, is-frankly baffling. I pride myself on reading the oddest bits of fiction that I stumble upon and I love sci fi and fantasy above all other genres. So how is it that I have not read any of Terry Pratchett’s damned silly books? Well, for one thing I’m sure that I thought Discworld…