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Book Review: The Long Earth
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Lately it feels like I’m reading books by my favorite authors that are just, I don’t know, anticlimactic. “The Long Earth” was another book by Terry Pratchett, this time co-authored with Stephen Baxter, that began with enormous potential, but rambled along and then stalled. The ending made it clear there’s a continuation, but since the first book failed to capture my attention, I doubt that I’ll read the second.
Sorry, Sir Terry, seems we’ve lost that lovin’ feeling.
Book Review: Snuff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
As a die-hard Discworld fan, “Snuff” both engaged and disappointed me at the same time.
While on holiday on his wife’s family estate in the country, the mostly out-of-place Sam Vimes, Duke of Ankh, is framed in the murder of a local goblin girl and takes up the chase with the local not-quite-up-to-speed-but-learning-quickly constable to find her real killer. At the same time Commander Vimes saves an entire species from decimation and pulls down the established societal pecking order. Life in the country and elsewhere on the Discworld is never the same again.
The story itself is entertaining enough, but there’s really nothing new here. Everything is familiar and expected, like an old married couple or your favorite, comfortable slippers. Willikins, however, was a delightful dash of Tabasco on an otherwise dull meatloaf.
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- Pratchett scoops prize for Snuff (bbc.co.uk)
