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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Small Gods, Part IV
We’ve reached the end, and will be building a very different sort of faith with our Small Gods. Summary Other gods come to tempt Brutha away from Om, and they meet St. Ungulant the anchorite, who is a...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Lords and Ladies, Part I
Nothing like arriving back just in time to find out you’re getting married? Careful to keep away from the Dancers—we don’t want to attract any Lords and Ladies. Summary Granny Weatherwax encounters a...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Lords and Ladies, Part II
We’re back and trying to figure out other ways to say Lords and Ladies, lest we summon them… Summary Magrat leaves the palace upon hearing about the witch duel; Granny is sitting opposite Diamanda,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Lords and Ladies, Part III
We’re back and ready to watch some Entertainment that will unfortunately serve as catnip to the Lords and Ladies. Summary Ridcully and his coach crew arrive at the bridge to Lancre, and the troll that...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Lords and Ladies, Part IV
Three unlikely couples are moving about, but those aren’t the Lords and Ladies we’re talking about… Summary Jason and the lads wake from their enchanted performance and perform the stick and bucket...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Men at Arms, Part I
Welcome back to the Terry Pratchett Book Club! We’re returned from an extended end-of-year/beginning-of-year hiatus, and ready to delve into Men at Arms. Summary Carrot writes a letter to his family:...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Men at Arms, Part II
We’ve got time, someone explain what a “gonne” is… Summary Vimes is so depressed about being ordered to do nothing about Hammerhock’s murder that he starts drinking again. Carrot is dismayed to find...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Men at Arms, Part III
And now we’ll all learn how to bluff with no cards, courtesy of Carrot… Summary It turns out that the Patrician is keeping Leonard da Quirm prisoner in the palace. We learn that Vetinari gave the gonne...
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Five Fantasy Worlds That Aren’t Just Magical Versions of Earth
While science fiction worlds are (somewhat) constrained by the laws of physics the same is not necessarily true of fantasy worlds. Despite this, many fantasy worlds are slight variations on Earth as we...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Men at Arms, Part IV
It’s time for us to attend a wedding and a funeral and a scramble through the sewers… Summary Carrot brings his new militia to the Day Watch house, recruiting a handful of new trolls and dwarfs and...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Soul Music, Part I
Everyone pick up your favorite rocks and bang them together—it’s time for a little Soul Music. Summary Death is in the middle of another existential crisis, wanting to learn how to forget. A girl...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Soul Music, Part II
In the words of Floyd from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem: “Just play the gig, man. Don’t get involved with politics.” Summary Susan heads off to her next battlefield where she’s meant to collect...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Soul Music, Part III
A free music festival? Whoever heard of such a thing… Summary Dibbler gives the band their first gig date at the Cavern and he’s made t-shirts; he introduces them to their new roadie, Asphalt. A pair...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Soul Music, Part IV
Rock and roll is here to stay, it will never die! But it might go away, though. From here. Summary Susan goes looking through Death’s house to find Albert, but the place is empty. She comes across the...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part I
Somebody give Rincewind a potato. Please. He just needs some mashed potatoes. Summary The Lady and Fate are about to play a game called Mighty Empires. The Lady makes her first move with a butterfly...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part II
We’re back! Let’s not waste time with pleasantries! Unless they’re your thing, in which case, you look lovely today! Summary Rincewind is caught for having a stolen horse, and then brought to a...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part III
Weird time for Death to show up, but then I supposed he’s always around… Summary The Silver Horde try to corner a tax collector into giving them a tour of the Forbidden City. Rincewind and Twoflower...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part IV
Time to win a war of seven again a quarter million. Butterflies are on our side, though. Summary The Horde discuss what they believe the afterlife is going to be like because they’ve finally come to...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part I
We’re back with our favorite coven… which is in need of a new member, it just so happens. Summary Nanny Ogg knows that Granny Weatherwax is on the verge of going bad because they’ve lost Magrat to...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part II
It is genuinely disconcerting when a ghost uses too many exclamation points. Summary Agnes stays up late and notices André the organ player appearing right after she thought she saw the Ghost. She...
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