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A fantasy tale follows the experiences of Discworld, a flat, circular planet that travels through deep space on the backs …
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge …
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night... …
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night... …
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night... …
„Presently Greebo awoke, streched, yawned and hopped silently to the floor. Then te most vicious and cunning a pile of fur that ever had the intelligence to sit on a bird table with its mouth open and a piece of toast balanced on its nose vanished through the open window. A few minutes later, the cockerel in the garden next door stuck up his head to greet the bright new day and died instantly mid-`doodle-doo’.“
— Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 18) (Page 22)
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge …
England 1890. Kleider, Bälle und die Suche nach dem perfekten Ehemann. Das ist es, was sich Animants Mutter für ihre …
Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd …
Ich hatte sehr viel Spaß beim Lesen! Definitiv eine wirklich interessante Variante des Sommernachttraums 😁
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Carpe Jugulum (; Latatian for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy …
'[...] sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.' 'It's a lot more complicated than that—' 'No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts.' 'Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes—' 'But they starts with thinking about people as things...'
— Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #23) (Page 314)
I like Granny Weatherwax's code of ethics a lot.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teachen Someone older, wiser, who understood you when …
You‘ll have to read it yourself.
This year started with a crisis, so the booktitle resonated with me very much.
The book takes you on a tour starting in darkness with all the reasons to despair to reach a broad collection of reasons for hope. I really liked the different examples throughout the ages and was very glad, that there was no toxic positivity to be found.
I‘ll read it some more times to let the hopeful concepts sink in.
