Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett Review
Harry Potter and Hogwarts this ain’t. Nor is it very much at all like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. But, if you like reading books about sometimes witty, often kooky wizards and the academic halls where said wizards teach – in this case, the Unseen University – and which also include in their cast of characters trolls, vampires, goblins, and orcs, then you owe it to yourself to check out Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld book, Unseen Academicals.
Full review after the jump…
Book Review – Equal Rites
Author: Terry Pratchett Cover Artist: Josh Kirby Publisher: Corgi Books Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1986 It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. [...]
Book Review – The Light Fantastic
Author: Terry Pratchett Cover Artist: Josh Kirby Publisher: Corgi Books Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1986 Great A’Tuin is the only creature in the entire universe that knows exactly where it is going. Of course, philosophers have debated for years where Great A’Tuin might be going, and have often said how worried they are [...]
Book Review – The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett Cover Artist: Josh Kirby Publisher: Corgi Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1985 The discworld offers sights far more impressive than those found in universes built by Creators with less imagination but more mechanical aptitude. The Sending of the Light – Prologue People have been bugging me to read Pratchett for ages and [...]
Book Review – Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett Publisher: Voyager Binding: Paperback Publication Date: October 2005 Renowned con man Moist von Lipwig is being put to death for his crimes. As the trapdoor drops beneath his feet and the rope around his neck tightens, it appears that there is no more to the criminal’s story. But in Going Postal, Terry [...]
Book Review – Night Watch (Discworld)
Author: Terry Pratchett Publisher: Doubleday Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2002 Night Watch, it is the first book that I have ever picked up and read by Terry Pratchett, and it’s good enough for me to go and pick up another. I truly enjoyed reading Night Watch, it gave me a sense of feeling I never [...]
Book Review – Interesting Times
Author: Terry Pratchett Cover Artist: Josh Kirby Publisher: Corgi Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: November 1994 Interesting Times is an installment of Terry Pratchett’s famed Discworld series. The Discworld series is one of my all time favorite series in all of speculative fiction. Pratchett is easily the genre’s best satirist (only even approached by Mr. [...]
