“Raising Steam,” was the penultimate novel in the Discworld series, before, “The Shepherd’s Crown,” which dealt with the passing of Nanny Ogg, possibly deliberately to parallel Terry’s own passing. To my eyes, this book investigates the futility of the far right in trying to turn back the progressiv...
Once it had been a dream, it had been nearly realized before being abandoned, and many lost their lives looking to harness it until one young man succeeded. Raising Steam is the penultimate book of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, as Moist von Lipwig helps along the technological marvel of locom...
Raising Steam is the third and final book in the Moist Von Lipwig subseries of Discworld, and the second-to-last book in the entire series. In this book, we meet a new character by the name of Simnel who has invented the steam engine and introduced the concept of fast travel by train. Meanwhile, t...
Terry Pratchett has always been a hit-or-miss writer for me. This one was a clear miss. I expected so much from it. I enjoyed the two previous novels about Moist von Lipwig – Going Postal and Making Money – but this book didn’t even come close. It has two interlocking story lines. One – the arrival ...
This ought to have been a wonderful read: the fortieth Discworld novel, featuring Moist von Lipwig and Commander Grimes coming to grips with the invention of the steam train and revisionist Dwarf terrorists, challenging the Koom Valley Accord. Big themes are brought to the table: how subversion w...
This is the third Discworld novel to feature Moist von Lipwig as a protagonist. I've listened to the first, Going Postal, many times and fully expected to love Raising Steam. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work for me. In this book, the Discworld gets its first locomotives. Dick Simnel, a self-taug...
My first impression of Terry Pratchett was also the first time I came to Germany by myself. In a little bookstore in...Bamberg, I think it was, visiting my cousin, I picked up a book with a funny title and a comical picture on it. I think I read it maybe 10 times in a row in the next two weeks, and ...
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.It has been awhile since I journeyed from Roundworld to Diskworld and with Sir Terry's passing it seemed like the right time. The trouble with pickin...
Enjoyable as Pratchett always is, but lacking his normal subtly. The 'rage' and frustration with the world that Neil Gaiman talks about Pratchett having does come through. The book did include two of my favorite central plot characters - Vimes and Moist. However, perhaps b/c it was a story cente...
A new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and ve...
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