The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett [146]
*The key was in the pattern of scars.
*The treacle mines below Ankh-Morpork had long been exhausted, leaving only a street name to remember them by. But the collision with the Fifth Elephant had buried thousands of acres of prehistoric sugar cane around the borders of Uberwald and the resulting dense crystalline sugar was the foundation of a large mining, confectionery and dentistry industry.
About the Author
TERRY PRATCHETT’s novels have sold more than forty-five million (give or take a few million) copies worldwide. He lives in England.
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Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed Discworld novels have been number one bestsellers in England for more than a decade, elevating him among the most celebrated practitioners of satire and parody including Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. At last, his irreverent humor—brilliantly displayed in The Fifth Elephant —is being embraced across America.
Unanimous Praise for
THE FIFTH ELEPHANT
“He’s arguably the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse.”
Washington Post Book World
“Acclaimed British author Pratchett continues to distinguish himself from his colleagues with clever plot lines and genuinely likable characters in this first-rate addition to his long-running Discworld fantasy series…Pratchett cheerfully takes readers on an exuberant tale of mystery and invention. Along the way, he skewers everything from monarchy to fascism, as well as communism and capitalism, oil wealth and ethnic identities, Russian plays, immigration, condoms, and evangelical Christianity—in short, most everything worth talking about.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Discworld takes the classic fantasy universe through its logical, and comic evolution.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Trying to summarize the plot of a Pratchett novel is like describing Hamlet as a play about a troubled guy with an Oedipus complex and a murderous uncle. Pratchett isn’t Shakespeare—for one thing, he’s funnier—but his books are richly textured, and far more complex than they appear at first.”
Barbara Mertz
and Terry Pratchett
“Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English language satirists.”
Publishers Weekly
“Unadulterated fun…witty, frequently hilarious.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Truly original…Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz…Has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland…Brilliant!”
A. S. Byatt
“For lighthearted escape with a thoughtful center, you can’t do better than…any…Discworld novel.”
Washington Post Book World
“If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Terry Pratchett’s would be most of them.”
Elizabeth Peters
“Consistently, inventively mad…wild and wonderful!”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
“Simply the best humorous writer of the twentieth century.”
Oxford Times
“A brilliant story-teller with a sense of humour…whose infectious fun completely engulfs you…The Dickens of the twentieth century.”
Mail on Sunday (London)
“The funniest parodist working in the field today, period.”
New York Review of Science Fiction
“Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction.”
Today (Great Britain)
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Truckers
Diggers
Wings
Only You Can Save Mankind
Johnny and the Dead
Johnny and the Bomb
The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)