Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This collection of short stories is a must-listen thanks to its brilliant narrators (including David Tennant, Indira Varma, and John Culshaw). And they were written by Terry Pratchett, with an introduction read by Neil Gaiman. What more can I say? Interestingly, I found myself enjoying these stories more than the first two Discworld books. Although you can sense that the ideas that would become Ankh Morpork are still taking shape in Pratchettโs mind, I particularly relished the Blackbury short stories.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A Stroke of The Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett
What an absolutely delightful treat. Twenty short stories that had been lost (1).
Found almost by accident (2). And thank the big gods and the small gods for that ๐
Not every story is a masterpiece but it doesn't need to be. There's fun to be had in all of them. Terry has a way with words and can create images and situations effortlessly that bring a smile or a hearty laugh (3)
The book starts strongly with a caveman inventor and then a fossil hunter that involved time travel and dinosaurs.
There were a few Christmas themed stories, a tale featuring a dragon, and a number of tales set in the town of Blackbury in Gritshire, a place that feels like just a side step through reality away from many an English town in the 1970s.
The inhabitants of Blackbury certainly put up with a lot ๐. Strange weather, a miraculous jungle, a haunted steamroller, cycling policemen & several mayors, and an alien sighting, just to name a few.
My favourites were Mr Brown's Holiday Accident (4) & proto-Discworld adventure The Quest For The Keys featuring Kron the Barbarian & an incompetent and Utterly Untrustworthy wizard who Discworld fans will size up as a cross between Rincewind & CMOT Dibbler ๐.
A joyous reading experience.
Footnotes:
(1) not lost down the back of the sofa but originally published under pseudonyms in newspapers early in his career.
(2) the story of how the research and unearthing of these gems came about is included in the book.
(3) sometimes a chuckle or chortle ๐
(4) he goes off script & breaks out of 'reality' ๐. Terry wrote this decades before The Truman Show.
What an absolutely delightful treat. Twenty short stories that had been lost (1).
Found almost by accident (2). And thank the big gods and the small gods for that ๐
Not every story is a masterpiece but it doesn't need to be. There's fun to be had in all of them. Terry has a way with words and can create images and situations effortlessly that bring a smile or a hearty laugh (3)
The book starts strongly with a caveman inventor and then a fossil hunter that involved time travel and dinosaurs.
There were a few Christmas themed stories, a tale featuring a dragon, and a number of tales set in the town of Blackbury in Gritshire, a place that feels like just a side step through reality away from many an English town in the 1970s.
The inhabitants of Blackbury certainly put up with a lot ๐. Strange weather, a miraculous jungle, a haunted steamroller, cycling policemen & several mayors, and an alien sighting, just to name a few.
My favourites were Mr Brown's Holiday Accident (4) & proto-Discworld adventure The Quest For The Keys featuring Kron the Barbarian & an incompetent and Utterly Untrustworthy wizard who Discworld fans will size up as a cross between Rincewind & CMOT Dibbler ๐.
A joyous reading experience.
Footnotes:
(1) not lost down the back of the sofa but originally published under pseudonyms in newspapers early in his career.
(2) the story of how the research and unearthing of these gems came about is included in the book.
(3) sometimes a chuckle or chortle ๐
(4) he goes off script & breaks out of 'reality' ๐. Terry wrote this decades before The Truman Show.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Pterry was very smart to hone his skills writing for newspapers under a pseudonym before getting into discworld but that does mean most of these arenโt even slightly memorable.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes