Pratchett Wednesday

[tealin]

Truckers, first book of the Bromeliad Trilogy, has been airing on Big Toe Books. It's not a Discworld book but is full of Pratchetty goodness and smarts. It's abridged a bit but maintains most of the important stuff and accurately represents the tone and themes of the books.

Part 1 starts at 40:20 - don't click away at the interruption, there's another part after.
Part 2 starts at 38:09
Part 3 starts at 38:24
Part 4 starts at 38:40
Part 5 starts at 38:19 - THE END*

I'd forgotten how much I like this series. Let's hope Dreamworks continues to forget it has the movie rights to it... This one's pretty well-read, considering it's on a kids' show. And the sound effects aren't too grating. Points to Big Toe.


      

Mort has somehow reached episode 4 (I told you not to trust me to keep updating the links) but Small Gods is at Episode 2.

AND Mr P is on an archived edition of Book Club, first aired in 2004. This only works till Friday so listen now!

On top of that, we've got cover art for Nation and some other upcoming releases on Discworld News.

*For a given value of 'end' ... there are two other books in the series, after all, but they don't appear to have gotten the Big Toe treatment. Pity. If you want to look them up at the library they are called Diggers and Wings. Worth your time.

Comments

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

I... totally want ALL the books on that for pre-order soon list... ♥

Curse being essentially job-less.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I think that's one of my favorite things about Pratchett's books--they're so darn clever. Nobody does clever better than Pratchett.

[alkhoon.livejournal.com]

Hi! Just wanted to say that I simply adore your Terry Pratchett drawings. ♥

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

I've never managed to find the Bromeliad Trilogy, so thank you for linking this.

[krishnaa.livejournal.com]

I know this is random, but have you seen Iron Man? bc I always look forward to your reviews...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Believe me, if I'd seen it, I'd have written about it.

Possibly with accompanying screen caps of the identical scene in Iron Giant.

Eventually ... lines are still way too long...

[anilori.livejournal.com]

For a Classics student, Small Gods'philosophers are priceless :-D

Thank you for linking !

[jesskat.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the "Mort" part 3 skip is your fault, when they aired it a few years back (the first time I heard it), they skipped directly from part 2 to part 4. I was so pissed. They aired it again the following year, this time with part 3 included. So it wouldn't be the first time.

Thanks for the reminder about "Truckers"! I just recently finished the Bromeliad trilogy for the first time and absolutely loved it. So I'm looking forward to listening to this.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't rule out skipping an episode but when I liked to it last week, it was episode 1 ... they must have aired it on consecutive days and just not included them on the links... or something ...