Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Stories

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Here, though, we see some of Terry’s very early work. It’s almost like Pratchett is experimenting, playing with words and themes to see if his writing has the desired effect. It is clearly the work of an inexperienced writer, and it shows many ideas that he would one day use to make his writing so remarkable and unique: so distinctively his own. They were all enjoyable, full of charm and wit, without being insufferable in their humour. The balance is perfect. Sometimes I feel like Pratchett tries too hard, inserting a joke or pun wherever possible, but here it was just right. Fourteen fantastically funny stories from master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, full of time travel and tortoises, monsters and mayhem! The Big Race: Have you ever wondered why we use gasoline-guzzling cars, rather than steam-powered ones? Here's Pratchett's theory. There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. This collection also gives Terry Pratchett fans a fascinating glimpse at some of the author’s earliest known works of fiction. Although none of these stories take place in Discworld, I can recognize the beginnings of the razor-sharp humor and airtight plotting that would later take shape in the form of the much-beloved series about the flat planet with the funny people who are oddly a lot like you and me, even though some of them wear pointy hats and do magic.

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This book contains some of Terry Pratchett's very early stories, like from his teenager years. Apparently the author did his best to hide them but they were found nevertheless and somebody thought it would be funny to publish them. And honestly, it is! Awonderful collection of short stories by master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring dragons, dinosaurs, cavemen and car races! It didn't make me laugh out loud but just to "hear Terry Pratchett's voice", albeit his younger one, was giving me this warm feeling inside and I'm glad I have this collection of short stories in addition to the others.

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Instead I just adore this man's humour and accomplishment throughout his life (and I'm not just talking about the money he made over the years)! In the days of King Arthur there were no newspapers, only town criers, who went around shouting the news at the tops of their voices. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time. En este libro encontrarán 14 cuentos en los que ya se puede ver el tipo de humor que Pratchett desarrollaría años más tarde en la saga Mundodisco y demás novelas que escribió. Se asemejan a los cuentos de hadas, pero para un público juvenil-adulto porque contienen chistes y referencias que lectores más chicos podrían no entender.

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Father Christmas Gets A Job: In today's job market, even our much-beloved Santa Claus might find he's not very 'employable.'Dragons at Crumbling Castle is a collection of short stories written by a seventeen-year-old Terry Pratchett when he worked as a junior reporter at a local British newspaper in the nineteen sixties. This was at a time when people actually still hired teens to do real work, and you didn't have so many child labor laws to make it impossible for teens to learn a real trade. He did odd stories of random country events, but also wrote weekly stories for children. This book is a collection of those children's stories. This collection of fourteen funny and inventive tales by acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, features a memorable cast of inept wizards, sensible heroes, and unusually adventuresome tortoises. Sorry, but how can I resist beautifully bound books about Dragons? I can't. It's even in a bathtub!

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En esta ocasión se trata de una inédita colección de catorce cuentos de tono más infantil que reúne a una gran cantidad de personajes altamente disparatados; como tortugas aventureras, héroes sensibles, gente minúscula, cavernícolas inventores o un papa Noel en busca de empleo, en una serie de aventuras alocadas que representan una excelente forma de introducir a jóvenes lectores en el universo de Terry Pratchett, aunque los adultos también podemos saborear los inicios del amado hombre del sombrero. Aunque todos son divertidos, amenos y bastante cortos, reconozco que los dos relatos de la Alfombra se me hicieron algo tediosos, demasiado alargados para mi gusto y comparando con el resto de la colección, aunque no por ello poco disfrutables. Del resto me quedo absolutamente con Dok El cavernícola, La Gran Mota y el que da nombre al libro, Los dragones del castillo ruinoso; son mi top 3 de la antología. Pero ese chico inocente de la motocicleta y mi yo adulto, el del sombrero negro y la barba, somos la misma persona. Y lo único que los dos hemos querido siempre es escribir para gente que sea lo bastante mayor para comprender. Y para imaginar...» Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA18204 Openlibrary_edition Edwo the Boring Knight: Edwo may be boring (in fact, he bores a dragon stiff - literally), but this story of a youngest son off to seek his fortune, is not.

Moreover, each story was wonderfully illustrated by Mark Beech whom I had never heard of before but who did a splendid job (his quirky illustrations reminded me a little of Quentin Blake who worked with Roald Dahl). Instead I’ve been very selective about the material I read of his. I read Nation and was really rather impressed with its balance of humour and postcolonial themes. This year I read The Long Earth and I was swept away with the sheer scope of its ideas, again, made great by the undercurrent of ridiculous humour. So there’s no denying the talent of the writer. Perhaps I was too young to appreciate his humour in the Discworld series or perhaps I just didn’t understand it at the time.

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Even at that young age, Terry Pratchett was a talented writer. This isn't descriptive prose to win awards. It's just fun stories that line up one joke right after another. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-08-11 14:22:25 Boxid IA1886822 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierWe have the name-giving dragons at Crumbling Castle, the Carpet People that later got their very own novel, Father Christmas, "normal" people trying to prove that a steam-engined car would be a good/bad idea, a heroic tortoise, a Snowman, knights, time travel and much more. The stories include all manner things as you'd expect from one of Terry Pratchett's novel, wizards, dragons and even Father Christmas (although this short story is really more of a drawn out joke than a short story).