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My wife bought this for Celyn and I read it to her. There are plenty of good things to say about the book. It has a moderate supply of Terry Pratchett's trademark wit for starters. The nomes (gnomes if you like) are an interesting mix of clever and stupid, and the addition of a lost history and their Leggi tutto

Every now and then I feel a touch of Pratchett withdrawal and have a look to see if there are any of his books I have not read yet. Fortunately he wrote loads so I can usually find something and in this case I have scored the first book in a trilogy! Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes is a fun boo Leggi tutto

It only took me a few pages to realise that I'd already knew the story to the first in the Bromeliad trilogy. There was a stop-motion animation series that I'd watched as a kid, seeing 4inch nomes inhabit a department store is pretty memorable! With each page brought back both vivid memories of the sh Leggi tutto

The first of The Bromeliad Trilogy leading to Diggers and Wings. After Terry Pratchett died I read an obituary that stated when Pratchett reached heaven he was welcomed by Jonathan Swift who told him that he (Swift) wished he'd written Truckers. The book is inventive, witty, and so clever. I found m Leggi tutto

Very, very funny. Surprised to see on Amazon that this book is listed as ages 8 - 10. I first read it in my mid twenties, and enjoyed equally well now in my late forties. You can't put an age limit on humour!

I liked it well enough and it was good to have a new (to me) Terry Pratchett novel to discover, with Stephen Briggs as narrator. However, it's not a patch on Discworld. I think it is aimed at the younger set and doesn't have the sardonic wit and cleverness I have grown accustomed to expect from Prat Leggi tutto

I have been O Deeing on psycho serial killers of late and was in need of something completely different. Went looking and when I came across Terry Pratchett, I had a light globe moment, haven't read any Sir Terry for about twenty years. Went looking in my box of many thing and found Truckers an audi Leggi tutto

Terry Pratchett just is the best to read for laughs, for education, for starting a conversation. I've read this book to my sons (11 and 13 yrs) and while we laughed a lot (the truck stealing scene was one of the best laughing-out-loud-having-tears-in-my-eyes-giggling-like-an-idiot scene for my 13 yr Leggi tutto

The librarian at our local library has amazing taste in books. When she hands me a stack every time I go to the library I know I will like every single one. She is such a motivation for me to read often. This book is the first in a series of three books and was recommended to me by her and she said, Leggi tutto

„Масклин” е яко гъбаркане с консуматорското общество, но има алюзии и към ключови моменти от човешката история и какви ли не други препратки, специалитет на Пратчет. Преди всичко, книгата ни помага да се съпоставим с едни дребни геройчета и да си спомним, че и ние самите не сме кой знае колко едри н Leggi tutto