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A review by firstwords
Nation by Terry Pratchett
4.0
The first non-Discworld book of Pratchett's I've read. It's very, very fast, feels like a short story. He has toned down the really dry wit (a bit) that Discworld readers are familiar with. The story is more straightforward. With Discworld, you're sitting down with Terry and he is telling you a story directly, as if it happened to him, with lots of jokes and sarcasm.
This book has that, but to a far lesser degree. And that was actually enjoyable. Most of the humor in DIscword is between the author and the reader, conversating directly. Here, the humor is in the story itself. The author is not (usually, sometimes he sneaks in) talking to the reader. It was refreshing.
And it has a very sweet ending clearly written by a man who loved the world and loved science.
This book has that, but to a far lesser degree. And that was actually enjoyable. Most of the humor in DIscword is between the author and the reader, conversating directly. Here, the humor is in the story itself. The author is not (usually, sometimes he sneaks in) talking to the reader. It was refreshing.
And it has a very sweet ending clearly written by a man who loved the world and loved science.