Comments on: Pratchett's Dodger: Dickens by way of Discworld

By: rausantaella

rausantaella — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:03:00 +0000

Some of the dialog among Vetinari and Drumknott is easily the best uttered by the patrician in ages.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:09:00 +0000

I hate to say this, as a huge Pratchett fan, but Snuff, his last Discworld book, was not up to his usual standard, even though it wasn’t bad at all. I’ll read this one too, but the expectations that I have for it will be similarly adjusted.

By: John Duncan Yoyo

John Duncan Yoyo — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:05:00 +0000

They would put that on almost anyone who qualifies.

By: Purplecat

Purplecat — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0000

American cover art still living down to its usual standards..

And why the need for “NYT Best-selling Author” Surely PTerry has enough name recognition for that to be utterly superfluous.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Actually not – it apparently comes from the actual practices of some traveling acrobats who formed human pyramids and traveled with donkeys (which, for the right price, occasionally formed the top of the pyramid).
http://vitaminq.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_vitaminq_archive.html
Whereas “millennium hand and shrimp” comes from randomly combining a Chinese restaurant menu with a They Might Be Giants lyric.

By: pgt

pgt — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:44:00 +0000

Its pterry: I’ll buy it!

That said, Sweeney Todd is a fictional character, not historical.

By: TheKaz1969

TheKaz1969 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:27:00 +0000

I don’t need a review. It’s Sir Terry! I’ll buy it!

By: egriff5514

egriff5514 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Thanks – am now enlightened…

By: RadioSilence

RadioSilence — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:11:00 +0000

It’s somewhat similar to ‘millennium hand and shrimp’.

By: James Hardy

James Hardy — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Don’t worry, perfectly safe for work.

By: egriff5514

egriff5514 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:29:00 +0000

Has anyone worked out what ‘tuppence more and up goes the donkey’ actually means? I’d google it, but might be NSFW