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Title: The Bromeliad Trilogy : Truckers, Diggers, and Wings by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0-06-009493-1 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Best, better, good
Comment: Terry Pratchett's early trilogy for young readers, originally published separately as "Truckers," "Diggers," and "Wings," is here reproduced in a single volume. The series features the Nomes, small creatures no more than a few inches high. In "Truckers," a small clan of nomes abandons their harsh outdoor life to move into an aging department store (Arnold Bros. Est. 1905). There they discover an entire metropolis of other nomes-complete with a bizarre class structure and an eccentric religion worshiping the Arnold Bros. as deities-who believe the department store to be the entire universe and deny the existence of the Outside, from which our clan came.
All the nomes must abandon the Store when it is slated for demolition; "Truckers," contains the story of their escape. The second volume, "Diggers", describes their attempt to carve out a life in an abandoned quarry. In the third volume, "Wings," we discover that the nomes' ancestors once lived in outer space, as their leader ventures to Florida's NASA Space Center to learn how to return his people to their origins.
"Truckers" is as funny as anything Pratchett has ever written; the send-up of religion, supporting the theme of believing in what can't be seen, combines with slapstick farce. (At one point the six-inch-high nomes successfully train themselves to drive a human-size truck only to forget to open the garage door before exiting the garage.) "Diggers" is somewhat witty, whereas "Wings" is a lesser effort. This third volume spends most of its time apart from the various characters that make the nome community entertaining reading.
Still, as always, worth the read!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Bromeliad Trilogy
Comment: An amazing book! Makes you wonder (and laugh) at nearly everything you know and do. Buy it, then loan it to a friend.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Bromeliad Trilogy
Comment: Terry Pratchett has formally been know to write about rodents but is now writing about Nome's in this fantastic fantasy called The Bromeliad Trilogy.
When Masklin ( a young Nome) decides to move his clan of Nome's to a better place because there are getting to be too many dangers where he lives the story gets started. Soon Masklin and his clan find themselves being whisked away all over the place always being guided by a mysterious black cube they call "The Thing".
Over the course of the story you will see inside the characters and will feel like you are thrown into the story as rolls along. This is a must for you who always ask "what is going to happen next"
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Title: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 006001315X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0060012366 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0060012358 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0552146730 Publisher: Corgi Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett, Gray Jolliffe ISBN: 0752853694 Publisher: Garnder's UK Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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