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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
by Terry Pratchett
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 😉
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 😂. 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 😂.
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 😂
(4) he goes off script & breaks out of 'reality' 😂. 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 😉
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 😂. 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 😂.
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 😂
(4) he goes off script & breaks out of 'reality' 😂. Terry wrote this decades before The Truman Show.