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Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum

It was inevitable that Terry Pratchett sooner or later would take on vampires. After all, he’s tackled (or more accurately, blindsided) sword and sorcery, Fritz Leiber, wuxia and practically any other subgenre of the fantastic one can think of. Eventually, … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s Nation

Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry Pratchett, courtesy of the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. He was knighted for “Services to Literature,” a grand and absolutely accurate reason. And if his enormous existing ouevre (and the amount of money it … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men

Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. Most of you have already made up your minds about Terry Pratchett. You may quibble that his very earliest books aren’t much good, that his middle-latest ones (the period beginning with Jingo) are rambling … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic

In 1983 Terry Pratchett’s first Discworld volume was published by Colin Smythe Limited (UK). It wasn’t his first novel, but it was the very first book of what is one of the longest running and best loved series in modern … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch

Christine Doiron wrote this review. As a teenager, around the same time as my Monty Python phase, I went through a brief period where I just couldn’t get enough of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. But, like all phases, I eventually moved … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s A Hat Full of Sky

Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. Tiffany Aching is back. So are Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle. If that means nothing to you, be aware that I’m writing about the sequel to The Wee Free Men, in which … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel, The Fifth Elephant, presents something of a thorny problem for the reviewer. As much as the dedicated Pratchettian (such as myself) may wish to rush into reading the story, the book itself demands attention, and … Continue reading

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Soul Music

“I like it. It’s just a movie that stands there and keeps punching.” So sayeth Stephen King in regards to the film adaptation of his novel Cujo, proof positive that authors may not be the last word when it comes … Continue reading

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Wyrd Sisters

Soul Music is longer. Soul Music has better extras. Soul Music has a better cover. Soul Music has more music, and some of it isn’t bad at all. That being said, Wyrd Sisters is a far more successful adaptation of … Continue reading

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Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn’s Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature

It has been said, with some justification, that dissecting a joke is much like dissecting a frog. One may figure out what makes the subject tick, but the end result is inevitably a dead frog. Unfortunately, the “respectable” literary establishment … Continue reading

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