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hi, TonyBlack
hi, Tony. yes this is my first Terry Pratchett book and im stunned at it. i heard him say Nation was a childrens book but im Fourteen and i love it haha. how about you? what books have engrosed your mind?
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Hi there mau3312 and welcome to the site. 
Is this your first Terry Pratchett book?
Is this your first Terry Pratchett book?
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hi, Tony. yes this is my first Terry Pratchett book and im stunned at it. i heard him say Nation was a childrens book but im Fourteen and i love it haha. how about you? what books have engrosed your mind?
I don't think I'd really call any of Terry's books a 'children's' book for the simple reason that they can and are read by all ages.
I like all Terry's books, but I'm also a big fan of Bernard Cornwell. I'll read anything - some more than once and some never again.
You might enjoy Guards! Guards! by Terry - it's a great book to get into the Discworld series.
Happy reading!
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Tonyblack said:
Hi there mau3312 and welcome to the site. Is this your first Terry Pratchett book?
Is this your first Terry Pratchett book?
I like all Terry's books, but I'm also a big fan of Bernard Cornwell. I'll read anything - some more than once and some never again.
You might enjoy Guards! Guards! by Terry - it's a great book to get into the Discworld series.
Happy reading!
I think I've read all those books (thanks to yourself). Very funny indeed
Just read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and I thought it was brilliant. I've only read one other by her, The Handmaid's Tale, and they're both set in the future, but now I might have to read some of her others.
Just about to start Four to Score by Janet Evanovich.
Just read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and I thought it was brilliant. I've only read one other by her, The Handmaid's Tale, and they're both set in the future, but now I might have to read some of her others.
Just about to start Four to Score by Janet Evanovich.
I'm currently reading one ore the other Discworld-Fanfic on Deviantart. There's one about Vimes as a young constable, after Keel died (Or his older self went, of course), one about the time between Guards! Guards! and Men At Arms and one about the possible universe, where Sybil has shown up on the barricade at the 25th of May. They're really good.
Here's the link, if you want to have a look: LINK!
Here's the link, if you want to have a look: LINK!
Well since this is the sequel to the book that had bogies in it, I wasn't overly surprised when I got to page 168 and there was.... yes indeed
I either need to read faster than the nose-picker & overtake them, fork out for the next 11 books in the series, or give them up altogether. I can't take much more of this I tell you!!!!!
I either need to read faster than the nose-picker & overtake them, fork out for the next 11 books in the series, or give them up altogether. I can't take much more of this I tell you!!!!!
I have just finished reading (for our book club) one of the most remarkable books I've ever read about the work of a remarkable man. It's by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, and it's called Three Cups of Tea; One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time.
In 1993 a young mountaineer who had gotten lost on the way down from a failed attempt to climb K2 stumbled (more dead than alive) into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. They took such good care of him and brought him back to health, took him into the family that he promised (when they replied to his question off what could he do for them) to return and build a school.
This is the story of that man, Greg Mortenson, and the schools he has already built (55 at the time the book was published) in the wild Tribal areas of Pakistan where the Taliban had been able to hold forth. And Mortenson made sure that girls could attend the schools and could get scholarships to study further. He is now going (or has gone) into Afghanistan to build schools in Badakshan and in the Wakhan Corridor."
As one of his Pakistani friends (watching film of the war in Iraq) shouted at him. "You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever."
It seems to me that the US (with it's change in military tactics) is moving in the right direction. I have a cousin who is in Pakistan in the tribal areas at the moment trying to help co-ordinate a tremedous AID effort to build schools and help these people have a better life. I suspect, though I don't know, that my cousin knows this man. But this is a book you must read--it tells so well what the US must do in terms of foreign policy--and what other countries can equally well spend their funds on. Fewer troops and more schools.
Yesterday Obama gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people. Greg Mortenson is a genuine American hero who deserves that kind of recognition. For more information see The Three Cups of Tea Home Page
In 1993 a young mountaineer who had gotten lost on the way down from a failed attempt to climb K2 stumbled (more dead than alive) into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. They took such good care of him and brought him back to health, took him into the family that he promised (when they replied to his question off what could he do for them) to return and build a school.
This is the story of that man, Greg Mortenson, and the schools he has already built (55 at the time the book was published) in the wild Tribal areas of Pakistan where the Taliban had been able to hold forth. And Mortenson made sure that girls could attend the schools and could get scholarships to study further. He is now going (or has gone) into Afghanistan to build schools in Badakshan and in the Wakhan Corridor."
As one of his Pakistani friends (watching film of the war in Iraq) shouted at him. "You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever."
It seems to me that the US (with it's change in military tactics) is moving in the right direction. I have a cousin who is in Pakistan in the tribal areas at the moment trying to help co-ordinate a tremedous AID effort to build schools and help these people have a better life. I suspect, though I don't know, that my cousin knows this man. But this is a book you must read--it tells so well what the US must do in terms of foreign policy--and what other countries can equally well spend their funds on. Fewer troops and more schools.
Yesterday Obama gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people. Greg Mortenson is a genuine American hero who deserves that kind of recognition. For more information see The Three Cups of Tea Home Page
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I've just started reading First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde. I like his books a lot but have only read them once so far. This is a new one to me and I'm already getting back into the laugh out loud humour.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel. It was recommended by a friend and I doubted that it would be my kind of story but I'm hooked. An excellent tale of the adoption of an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl by a tribe of Neanderthals. Though I know very little of prehistory I believe the research was done with care and the story is told with great imagination. I've just reserved the sequel, The valley of Horses, from the library.
An excellent tale of the adoption of an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl by a tribe of Neanderthals. Though I know very little of prehistory I believe the research was done with care and the story is told with great imagination. I've just reserved the sequel, The valley of Horses, from the library.
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