nation, terry pratchett

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anyone else read this? seems not to be his usual style

I am a great fan of TP, but since having children I have not been able to keep up with his work.

Is Nation a discworld novel?

I know he has been diagnosed with a form of dementia and I belive he now has help with his writing.

How ong ago was this book written? And is it co-written?

Would be interested to know.

I think you can feel the fear.

A big theme in that book is loneliness and death, and leaving one's loved ones behind.

Is this another Discworld novel? I haven't heard of it. I don't think he's has a co-writer - the type of Alzheimer's he has is an unusual type that isn't causing him to have dementia, it effects his brain- muscles co-ordination instead, as far as I understand it. Apparently he doesn't have any difficulty thinking up the plots and story lines, but does have a problem with typing.

It's not discworld.

Is it out yet? Hmm, I get paid next week... It's his first non-Discworld, non part of a series book in about 20 years, I think. Sounds interesting. Just hope it's better than Making Money, which, I thought, was the weakest of all the Discworld books. The next Discworld book will also be about Moist Von-boring-character,unfortunately. I think there's another Tiffany Aching book out soon too.

feck! another adult book they are selling in the childrens section of waterstones that I have given to ds to read!

It is a children's book though, avenanap. It's in Tesco's at about £8.99 I think

Can someone please read the damn book and then post an update? Am a Discworld addict so don't want to buy this in case it's disappointing.

Have just invested in his guide to folk tales which is looking good so far.

Thanks. ds is reading it, he's half way through so I'll ask him about it and report back to you tomorrow afternoon.

I've read it!

I found the first half quite quite heart breaking (although had pmt)

Would you recommend it to someone who loves Discworld?

its not a discworld book. once you get over that, its actually av ery good book. but i don think it is a childrens book. the first part ofit is just tooo heartbreaking.
but more childrens book than his dark materials.

I really liked it but no its not his usual style at all.

I cried buckets at the end - but liked it so much it only took me two days to read.

I agree with smugcolditz it is a really dark book for tp and has less comedic moments than his discworld novels. However I think it is a book he has written from the heart and one I think he has really wanted to write for a long time and is not just a rehash of familiar themes in a discworld novel.

Going Postal and making Money where both fairly similar - following an almost set discworld pattern. This was something deeper more akin to Thud or Monstrous Regiment.

Anyway I really liked it - thought it was brilliant in fact. I hope he has time to produce more like this.