I love sci-fi and fantasy and anything that spans the genres. I adore Terry Pratchett and his writing, especially the Discworld. I would love to impress a dragon on Pern. I also enjoy crime stuff.
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83% complete! Tattooed_Mummy has read 10 of 12 books.
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. …
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, …
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring …
I loved it! Such a good book and I can't wait for the next in the series. Not sure how the authors can sustain this for 5 books, but then again it is Terry! He has form for creating new and believable worlds, and other trouser legs of time...
A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the …
Bees make honey; we all know that. But what happens between the bee buzzing around our garden, and the sticky …
Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and …
The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read – a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a …
Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is …
Time's fool is a novel about monstrosity, about desire, and communication. Autumn in the market city of Barchester, and two …
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring …
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (Page 255)
@KeefJudge@mastodon.social @chrisgn@mstdn.social things it is similar to ; The Riverworld Series, the later books in the His Dark Materials saga, some Discworld , Philip K Dick stuff. It's a mishmash and it's good so far - I'm on page 121 - it's not what I expected , no idea why I didn't read them before
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring …
Really enjoying this so far, it reads like some of the 1950s SciFi I always loved, but with Terry's humour. Already seeing echoes of people and phrases from Discworld. As usual there are some insightful comments made wryly. Also it's looking like the hero (?) is autistic and another lead is a lesbian so nice and varied views on things.
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring …
For some reason this 5 book collection beginning with the long earth had slipped my notice, so I am having a read. Some people have said these books are terrible and other love them so I guess the only way to be sure is to read them. I enjoy Sci-Fi and love Terry Pratchett so things are looking promising .
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths …
Just a joy. Rereading it today still felt very current, and as always I found some proper laugh out loud moments.
"Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.”
“Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He’d been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.”
“Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.”
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths …
Rereading this was a joy. I could fill this review with very current quotable quotes from Vimes explaining why policemen mustn't kill the people they have sworn to protect, to Nobby Nobbs discovering what it's like to be a woman and embracing his feminine side so wholeheartedly. But instead I will just suggest you go and have a read for yourself. So real laugh out loud moments.
