Raising Steam (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
480
Utgivningsdatum
2014-10-09
Förlag
Corgi Books
Illustratör/Fotograf
map
Illustrationer
map (black and white)
Dimensioner
197 x 136 x 30 mm
Vikt
330 g
ISBN
9780552170468

Raising Steam

(Discworld novel 40)

av Terry Pratchett
(3 röster)
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-10-09
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I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts of spontaneous laughter Ben Aaronovitch, Guardian The Discworld is very much like our own if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Change is in the air for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, con-man, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention a steam locomotive named Iron Girder, to be precise is drawing astonished crowds. Suddenly its a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesnt involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters. What Moist does enjoy is being alive, which may not be a perk of running the new railway. Because, of course, some people have OBJECTIONS, and theyll go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks. ____________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Raising Steam is the third and final book in the Moist von Lipwig series.
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Laugh-out-loud funny...A chuffing wonderful book. * SFX * Terry Pratchetts creation is still going strong after 30 years as Ankh-Morpork branches into the railway ageThere are sly nods to the history of railways and a cheeky reference to The Railway Children. Most aficionados, however, will be on the look-out for in-jokes and references from previous novels of which there is no shortageIt is at the level of the sentence that Pratchett wins his fans. * The Times * The genius of Pratchett is that he never goes for the straight allegory. . .he remains one of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun and the deflationary three-part list. . .I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts of spontaneous laughter. -- Ben Aaronovitch * The Guardian *

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Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any. www.terrypratchettbooks.com

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