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A stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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This, really, and as it says on the tin (so to speak) is a collection of short stories penned by the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett back when he was first starting out on his journalistic career.

So we're talking back, mainly, in the late 1970s and perhaps early 80s, before the Discworld series for which he is most renowned came to be.

As such, none of these are as polished as his later works, although it is interesting to see early glimmers of ideas that would later be fully fleshed out (mainly, but not exclusively, in the Discworld series) in several of these stories.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Just Kids in Books

Aug 17, 2017  
Just Kids
Just Kids
Patti Smith | 2014 | Biography
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8.3 (4 Ratings)
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Mesmerising memoir of the 1970s art scene
I was worried that this was another overhyped autobiography of another self-congratulating artist. But I was proved totally wrong. Patti Smith is truly unique and interesting, having had a life of hardship living on the streets to living with a partner equally mixed up, to engaging in a world that was the founding of America's modern art scene. More than the meandering, wonderful, dark tales is her liquid prose. She's not only an inspired poet but a fantastic all-round writer. She was known for all of her relationships with famous men, but this is about the one man who mattered the most. Well worth all of the awards.