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Buy Cheap The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel Buy Low Price From Here Now Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. The Color of MagicM is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind. style="clear:both"> Readmore Technical Details - ISBN13: 9780060855925 - Condition: NEW - Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. - Click here to view our Condition Guide ... Read Full Story

Buy Cheap The Colour of Magic: Graphic Novel Buy Low Price From Here Now style="clear:both"> Readmore Technical Details See more technical details   "A solid start to the series but the best is yet to come"   2009-07-13 By A. Whitehead (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) Ankh-Morpork is the greatest city on the Discworld - a flat planet carried through space on the back of four elephants standing astride a giant turtle - and has seen fire, flood, famine and even the odd barbarian invasion during its long history, but even it is unprepared for the arrival of a much more devastating threat: tourism. Twoflower ... Read Full Story

Judging by the number of "tweets" on Twitter the documentary Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's is creating a stir across the pond. People seem to be genuinely moved. There can be little doubt that this documentary is raising awareness of Alzheimer's disease in Great Britain. This is a good thing. Hopefully, the BBC documentary will be seen here in the U.S. soon. Living with Alzheimer’s (BBC2) is a two-part documentary in which, for a year, the cameras followed Pratchett down what he describes as “the dark path”. (Ronald Reagan, when he was diagnosed, called it “the journey that will lead me into the sunset ... Read Full Story

For your reading pleasure, I'm giving away one copy of Terry Pratchett's latest, Unseen Academicals , to one lucky winner! For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Here's the blurb: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go going when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in ... Read Full Story

AWARD-WINNING film-maker Vadim Jean has revealed how he created successful adaptations of fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels - and how his time at Warwick University as a history student helped lay the foundations for his career. Vadim's TV movie of Pratchett's Hogfather was screened on Sky One in 2006. He went on to combine the author's works The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic into a two-part film adaptation, The Colour of Magic, which aired on the same channel over Easter this year. In a Warwick University podcast, Vadim (pictured) explained how he'd moved from being a budding historian to being a ... Read Full Story