They came to life again, and immediately began to entertain, as if six or seven years hadn’t passed since my mind’s eye last opened on the city of Ankh-Morpork.Īppropriately, this book takes City Watch Commander Vimes back to an Ankh-Morpork he only distantly remembers. The characters of Sam Vimes, Carrot, Nobby, Fred Colon, Lord Vetinari, etc., reprised their roles in my mental cinema without any need for lengthy recap. And since I haven’t visited Discworld since 2002 or -03, it’s worth saying that it took me no time to get back into it. Published in 2002, it shows the author still in full possession of his gifts as a storyteller and humorist. The news of his condition is deeply saddening, but this book will cheer you up. Little as I suspect he believes in prayer, I ask my faithful readers to “do a lap around the rosary” for Mr. He really has no choice, since Alzheimer’s disease is taking the ability from him. Why did I start reading Discworld again? At least partly, I was prompted by the news that Terry Pratchett had decided to stop writing them. But the only excuse that really matters is that I have been reading other books. Why did I stop reading Discworld? Any answer that I can give must have the word “momentum” in it. I have been content to let subsequent installments in Pratchett’s fantasy-philosophy-humor extravaganza pile up on my shelf, so that I can guiltily look at them while I pick other things to read.

Nevertheless, I haven’t cracked a single book in the series since then, the Tiffany Aching trilogy excepted. My reviews of them were essentially the egg out of which the Book Trolley hatched. Several years ago, I read straight through the first 26 Discworld novels.

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