Unseen Academicals (Discworld)

http://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Academicals-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0061161705

by mblakele • 17 years ago

10 9 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

This is the first Discworld release since I've left the UK, I think. Why are the American covers always so terrible?

ajborley• 17 years ago

The UK cover is a billion times better: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0385609345/ref=dp_...

jlees• 17 years ago

Especially since it features a fairly prolific member of the Pratchett Usenet (alt.fan.pratchett) community :)

ErrantX2• 17 years ago

It'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• 17 years ago

If 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.

ErrantX2• 17 years ago

Possibly; 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.

mblakele2• 17 years ago

I 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.

mblakele2• 17 years ago

I was hoping for some discussion of the crab-bucket and the hammer. These are, I think, relevant topics for this site.

Unseen Academicals (Discworld)

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