The Truth: Brief Review, No Spoilers
I liked it. Best TP book for a fair while. TP finally wrote some new
characters and not just reused old ones as his main protagonists - the last
time this happened was Small Gods (and less so Masquerade and Soul Music)
which was published while I was still banged up in Stalag Williamson. The
usual suspects - nearly every character connected with Ankh Morpork - do
show up but always as a member of the support cast.
The story is the long promised tale of William de Worde (who appears in the
1994 edition of the Discworld companion so it's obvious the idea has been
knocking about for a while now) and concerns the Disc's first Newspaper
mixed in with the usual shenanigans in AM's Public Life. The story is
better than most Discworld tales - especially the recent ones which I've
felt have been heavily guilty of reusing the same central characters - and
has some interesting themes on the subject of Newspapers to explore.
Chris L etc will already have laid their hands on a copy but it's a big Phil
thumbs up for this one and encouragement for some of the rest of you to buy
one - I'm sure Murder One and FP will have copies next Saturday.
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Philip Ayres
payres@
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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characters and not just reused old ones as his main protagonists - the last
time this happened was Small Gods (and less so Masquerade and Soul Music)
which was published while I was still banged up in Stalag Williamson. The
usual suspects - nearly every character connected with Ankh Morpork - do
show up but always as a member of the support cast.
The story is the long promised tale of William de Worde (who appears in the
1994 edition of the Discworld companion so it's obvious the idea has been
knocking about for a while now) and concerns the Disc's first Newspaper
mixed in with the usual shenanigans in AM's Public Life. The story is
better than most Discworld tales - especially the recent ones which I've
felt have been heavily guilty of reusing the same central characters - and
has some interesting themes on the subject of Newspapers to explore.
Chris L etc will already have laid their hands on a copy but it's a big Phil
thumbs up for this one and encouragement for some of the rest of you to buy
one - I'm sure Murder One and FP will have copies next Saturday.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Philip Ayres
payres@
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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