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Once More with Footnotes
by: Terry Pratchett

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781886778573
ISBN: 1886778574
Label: Nesfa Pr
Manufacturer: Nesfa Pr
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 30, 2004
Publisher: Nesfa Pr
Sales Rank: 740491
Studio: Nesfa Pr

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- Some Excellent Stories in an Eclectic Collection
"Once More With Footnotes", compiled for the 2004 World Fantasy Convention where Terry Pratchett was Guest of Honor, is an eclectic collection - short stories, essays and introductions, including Pratchett's first published story ("The Hades Business"). There's a lot here of interest to Pratchett fans, but less so for the more casual reader; essays are nice enough but it's Pratchett's stories that have made him standout.

There's a number of them here and they're generally quite good. It's actually slightly depressing seeing Pratchett's skill at 13 in "The Hades Business"; "Hollywood Chickens" and "Final Reward" are great little stories; "Theater of Cruelty" is probably the best of the Discworld stories. "Troll Bridge" and "The Sea and Little Fishes" are others, solid pieces. There's over a dozen short stories (some very short) all told. As for the essays and other ephemera, Pratchett does hit some of ... Read More

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- Indispensable for Discworld fans, good for everyone
This book contains many short stories, articles and other writings by Terry Pratchett. Among these we can find his first story published, which happened when Terry was just 13 years old!
What I enjoyed the most was the articles and the speeches, as these are sort of like eight-minute stand-up comedian monologues, but the four Discworld short stories (which, I might add, have never been published in book form before) were very good too. The long ones had excellent endings.
Buy this book if you like the Discworld, or if you simply like Pratchett. If you don't, then do anyway.

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- A must for Discworld fans
"Once More* *with footnotes" is a collection of short stories, essays, book introductions, etc., by Terry Pratchett. Not all the material by any means is Discworld-related, but some of it is (two of the short stories -- "The Sea and Little Fishes" with Granny Weatherwax and "Troll Bridge" with Cohen the Barbarian -- fall into the "must-read" category for Discworld fans) and everything is fired with the particular Pratchett brand of humor ("Hollywood Chickens" may not answer fully the age-old question of why the chicken crossed the road, but it certain provides an unusual perspective of "how" it crossed).

Rating:

- OK but a little slow
I like the book and the short stories are good but I thought a few of them were a bit on the slow side to read. Thats ok though as the book gives you some very good examples of how his writing style has matured over the years. I can't wait for the next DiskWorld story!

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