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Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17) (Discworld Novels)

Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17) (Discworld Novels)

by TerryPratchett (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

A foot on the neck is nine points of the law' There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not extremely dangerous, not to comply - particularly if all they want is a wizard, and they don't specify whether competence is an issue...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Corgi
Published: 01 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0552153214
ISBN 13: 9780552153218
Book Overview: The seventeenth Discworld novel.

Media Reviews
This spinner of crazy science-fiction tales is a very sophisticated jester The Times Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own The Sunday Times Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed... This total mess of - I suppose - a novel, is the joyous outcome Daily Telegraph Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre Observer Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive Guardian
Author Bio
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages. www.terrypratchett.co.uk.