The colour of marketing

So unless you've been living on a mountainside in a fantasy-style alternative reality you may have noticed that Sky have been doing a bit of promotion for the new adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.

We'll reserve judgement until we see it but if you want to get a sneaky peek, the Times Online has a clip up and if you're really hardcore you can submit a picture of yourself dressed as "Rinsewind" (sic) to try and win the full audio back catalogue. Now where did I put my camera....

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

Never one to miss the opportunity for a bit of extra time amongst the books, I downloaded Going Postal to my Blackberry via Mobipocket.com which anyone who hasn't should check out because it has a surprisingly good selection of SFF titles as well as a number of classics that you can download for free.

Now, technology evangelism aside, here is the review:

Book info:

• Mass Market Paperback: 429 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Adult; New Ed edition (26 Sep 2005)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 0552149438
• ISBN-13: 978-0552149433

Synopsis:
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...

From the Back Cover:
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist…

… and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.
It’s a tough decision.
But he’s got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers’ Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.
Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.
Maybe it’ll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it’s a death sentence either way.
Or perhaps there’s a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who’s prepared to push the envelope…

Reviews around the web:
Well what can you say about the 33rd book in a series that just keeps getting better and better? As usual the majority love this one. Pratchett's loyal and committed following love everything he produces but to be fair, as Fantasy Cafe points out, his work has matured nicely with a slightly more serious/political undertone if you look for it - moving away from the silliness of Rincewind (though I still want to adopt "the luggage" - there are a few hotel porters I would set it on) Pratchett introduces a host of new characters in the later discworld books that are as full and developed as any you'd expect to see from a man at the top of his trade.

My two cents
Yes, I loved it but then I'll always have a soft spot for the Discworld series. I think I lost interest somewhere around Wyrd Sisters for a while (for reasons stated above) which is why I'm so pleased that in more recent books Pratchett has been able to create whole new pocket universes, even justwithin Ank-Morpork which fit seamlessly into the world he has created without ever having to excuse their late arrival.

Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett

Book info:

• Paperback: 351 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Adult; New Ed edition (9 Nov 1995)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 0552142352
• ISBN-13: 978-0552142359

Back cover:
Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons terror and panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...and a very special butterfly.

Reviews:
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My two cents:
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