Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning...
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Periódicos Ecuatorianos
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Cartwheels In The Dark
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There are places in the backwoods of Maine where things can and do get buried for a very, very long...
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Love Me or Grieve Me
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Reports of Madison Night's death have been greatly exaggerated... When a junior copy editor at...
David McK (3857 KP) rated The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2) in Books
Sep 11, 2022
Still as good as ever!
<original review below>
So, over the weekend I watched a BBC documentary about the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett (Terry Pratchett: Back in Black) as part of which they brought up the fact that his earliest job had been as a reporter for his local paper (and saw his first corpse a few hours later, work experience meaning something in those days ...) .
Experience that shows in this novel.
The second of the so-called Industrial Revolutions (after Moving Pictures) sub-series of the Discworld novels, this is - IMO - the first to really get into the meat of said revolution, and concerns itself with Ankh-Morporks first newspaper, alongside a plot to depose the Patrician - a character, I feel, who (whilst mostly in the background in the earlier novels) comes more to the fore in this, as do the likes of Foul Ol' Ron, Coffin Henry, The Duck Man and Gaspode
Of course, it wouldn't be a Pratchett novel without a generous portion of puns running alongside the satire, parody and memorable characters (such as, say, Otto von Chriek: the vampire with a thing for flash photography ...)
The Imposter
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They say you can't choose your family . . . But what if they're wrong? Chloe lives a quiet life....
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