• Read: The Truth, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2018-01-28 · 1 min read  ·
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    What if. What if the plain old good news paper was a cutting-edge start-up? Well, in Terry Pratchett's Discworld you can have that. The book starts in this world, where it is already well known that news can be money, but nobody came around the idea of making this a retail business. Neither did William de …
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  • Read: Slaughter House 5, by Kurt Vonnegut

    calendar 2017-12-20 · 3 min read  ·
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    I read this book back in school. i should have. Well, I did, kind of. But my memories of it were kind of scarce, so I did something i rarely do, I read it a second time. And I have to admit, now being able to make somewhat better use of the English language makes the experience much more enjoyable.

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  • Read: REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson

    calendar 2017-01-18 · 3 min read  ·
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    This book is a few years old, it was published 2011; nevertheless it covers two topics that were pretty dominant in the last year. One is islamic terrorism, unfortunatley the major topic for many people last year, and ransomware — what at least was breathtaking for some of the IT crowd. So, the plot is about an IT …
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  • Read: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

    calendar 2016-09-22 · 2 min read  ·
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    J.K. Rawling's Potterism I only joined with some hesitation. But only to read the books with growing enthusiasm when started at last. The books where a fine journey from a pretty innocent children story to heavy fantasy fiction. The storyline was always exciting and surprising, the ends not disappointing.

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  • Read: The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2016-02-16 · 1 min read  ·
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    This book is kind of a jackpot for me: I like Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and I like Australia, oh sorry, I mean EcksEcksEcksEcks.¹ Reading this book, you feel the spirit of Down Under – even the Wizards are relaxed; and the guards, to Rincewind's astonishment and delight. This book is of course about loads of other …
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  • Read: Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2015-07-07 · 2 min read  ·
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    book cover "Jingo"Nothing less than war is the main topic of the latest Discworld novel I have read. A most delicate issue, moral hazards are anywhere. This is another book of The Watch of Ankh-Mopork. The mob of the city demands war with Klatch (Discworld's Arabia), but three wise men (with mere help from others) fight war and win …
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  • Read: Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2014-07-11 · 2 min read  ·
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    After having read some serious (nevertheless excellent) books, I return to the serious unseriousness of the Discworld. Happily so. “Hogfather” has it all what should make it one of my favourites in the series: Death (General and of Rats), Susan Sto-Helit, Wizards, Hex. Additionally a brilliant (literally) villain …
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  • Read: Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2013-12-11 · 1 min read  ·
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    The Discworld has returned. Much is said about it, but it does not become boring. And I think it will never get. Again Pratchett centers a story around great philosophical topics of mankind: Religious stories (Golems), Politics (the inner anarchist of the commander of the watch) or minorities (or how would you call …
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  • Read: The Importance of Being Ernest, a play by Oscar Wilde

    calendar 2013-07-03 · 1 min read  ·
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    Good fellow Mister Wilde would for sure have been one interesting person to talk to. He really is a master of the play on words, independent of the story line and its depth. This short play was really fun reading, although the plot is not really twisted and somewhat foreseeable. The characters are portrayed in a …
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  • Read: Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett

    calendar 2013-04-27 · 1 min read  ·
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    The series must go on, this is Discworld N° 18. For the loyal DW reader this book holds no surprise. Main characters are witches Nanny and Granny, always good for surprises, as we know them. They dive into the world of opera, foreign to them as it is to me, I have to admit.

    For me this was none of the outstanding …


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