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Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
- JCThoughtscream 17y agoI nearly had a heart attack when I realized I forgot about the next Discworld release. At least I know what I'll be doing this weekend! Living in the bookstore again...
- seldo 17y agoThis is the first Discworld release since I've left the UK, I think. Why are the American covers always so terrible?
- ajborley 17y agoThe UK cover is a billion times better: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0385609345/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0385609345/ref=dp_...
- jlees 17y agoEspecially since it features a fairly prolific member of the Pratchett Usenet (alt.fan.pratchett) community :)
- ErrantX 17y agoIt's a brilliant read. With that said; you can tell in the first chapter or 2 his disease is having an effect. The first chapter especially has some clunky moments :( After that it warms to it's stride till the end when it finishes somewhat cheerily for a Pratchett book... It's a sad sad shame that we might not see many more brilliantly witty Disc World novels :(
- weavejester 17y agoIf you weren't aware of his condition, would you have attributed the "clunky moments" to a brain disorder? Even some of Pratchett's earlier books have had the occassional problematic chapter.
- ErrantX 17y agoPossibly; all his previous books have had a really careful plot. This one felt, as a whole, a little more meandering. You right though; I was expecting it to be different.
- mblakele 17y agoI found his voice quite different too. But I attributed the difference to a change in personality. Such a change is likely to accompany a view over the cliff-drop of intellectual mortality, without dropping over the cliff itself.
- mblakele 17y agoI was hoping for some discussion of the crab-bucket and the hammer. These are, I think, relevant topics for this site.