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icymist

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2. This will make you laugh, cry, and think about our human condition.
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:47 PM
Mar 2015

Imagine a failed wizzard, the world's first tourist, and a sentient chest that grows many little legs and follows it owner (Two-flower, the tourist) wherever he goes. And I mean, even off the end of the Discworld, a disc supported by four elephants that are standing on the back of a giant turtle traveling through space. The big questions in the scientific community is 'Where is the turtle going?' and 'What sex is the turtle?' and 'Do we need to be concerned about turtles mating when the journey ends?'

Pratchett has a wry outlook about existence and a keen sense of the human condition; able to capture this in writing like I've seen so very few authors able to do. Death is an anthropomorphic blind force that TALKS IN THAT VOICE and lives (yes lives) in a Dark Mansion that is all black. There are many different shades of black.

When I first picked up a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel I was hooked for life. Amazingly fun reads.

Well, I don't want to give away too much. Enjoy.

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