The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25) (Discworld Novels)

Product Information

The line "...what would it do to the pie?" is a reference to the cooking in the previous sentence but also refers to printer pie, a term for jumbled-up type, which will be sorted for the next job or recast into new type. Soon we have a "serious" newspaper like The Times competing with a scandal rag, The Inquirer. Funny stuff. And here be some quotes bc what else do I have to offer when it comes to reviewing on this here book ey. They probably won't make sense out of context. Eh. William de Worde thinks to himself, "You've got to move with the Times" (capitalized as a reference to both time and his newspaper.

I'm ambivalent on the Industrial Revolution series. I think they have their ups and downs. The ups are mostly associated with Moist von Lipwig and show the organic development of their particular innovation out of the actual Discworld and Moist's ingenuity. This one isn't quite that, with much of the Ankh-Morpork Times coming together magically like the newspaper industry in our world, and William's particular set of journalistic ethics just appearing out of nowhere. It's not quite Moving Pictures-level of magical insertion, and some of it does make sense, but it does so at a fast pace to get out of the way of the story and the thematic elements. Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip reminded me of two characters, pairs too if I remember it right, from one of Gaiman´s novels and one of Tad William´s series, Otherland, who had the same potential to greatly entertain. Such a marvelous duo of lunatic evil guys, no matter in which novel, evil is just too sexy. In the novel the criminal group The New Firm (Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip) are employed by a group of so called "concerned citizens" to frame Lord Vetinari, in a conspiracy to get a new Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said. When the New Firm is trapped in the basement of the newspaper building, Mr. Pin says, "I wasn't born to fry." a play on burning in the building but also on dying in the electric chair. Ultimately he does in fact fry, when he is reincarnated as a potato which is turned into chips.Just as in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, two criminals make an attempt to steal the show and damn near do. Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip are the Vincent and Jules of the Discworld: dangerous loose cannons with good lines.

As with all of Pratchett’s books, we have the evolution of the newspaper over a matter of a week rather than the hundred or so years that it took in our world. Soon there is competition across the street with headlines like “Woman gives birth to snakes” and “Man abducted by Demons.” William de Worde however, is obsessed with truth, stories come flooding in, and soon he has hired Sacharissa as a story writer, and Otto the vampire as a photographer. I have to admit that the first time Otto takes a picture for the paper literally cause me to snort my drink out through my nose, and tears to come to my eyes from laughing so hard. I think that scene is one of the funniest moments I have ever read in a book. Sacharissa is the daughter of an engraver who becomes quite the excellent reporter, and ends up being key to the discovery of the truth at the end of the book. Otto, a vampire from Uberwald has joined the temperance group and given up the red stuff, not that he doesn’t have his moments, but he tries so hard to keep himself under control. This was also terrific read-aloud fare thanks to the character of Mr. Tulip, who swears a lot. Sort of. Specifically, he says, "--ing" all the time. Pratchett makes it clear that he isn't doing the old-fashioned removal of profanity with a dash left behind to show where the bad word was; his character's dialogue is self-cleaning, which leaves a lot of the other characters mystified. It's a lot of fun to read Tulip's dialogue aloud with a solid working-class British accent and lean on that dash before pronouncing the "ing" part. Seriously. Try it. It sounds fantastic. Goodmountain says that the Bursar's words are not properly justified - meaning that the spaces aren't set evenly in the typeface but which the Bursar misinterprets to mean that Goodmountain does not believe he has properly rationalize his argument. Terry often talked about “doing” his autobiography. In the years before he was ill, he talked about it almost exclusively to dismiss the idea. He didn’t seem persuaded that there was anything in the story of the journey that took a kid from a council house in Beaconsfield to a knighthood and a mansion near Salisbury by the sheer power of his imagination alone; or in the tale of how a boy with, as Terry put it, “a mouthful of speech impediments” became one of his generation’s most popular communicators; or how someone who left school with five O-levels could also go on to have an honorary professorship at Trinity College Dublin. And besides, there were always other things waiting to be written – bigger stories in which far more outlandish and arresting things were free to happen. The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad "expletive deleted" euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to " -ing"....

Retailers:

As a last resort, we might consume some dried tropical frogs with the Bursar of the Unseen University and fly away into a better future. All we have to do is believe we can do it, work toward it, tell it true: The bar "Biers" is a take off on "Cheers" the bar in the American TV show. Biers is also a frame to place a coffin on (appropriate given the general undead state of most of the clientele at this bar) and is German for beer.

I thought maybe a maypole,” said Mr. Tulip reflectively. “An’ then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the three-field system, several plagues, and if my –ing hand ain’t too tired the invention of the –ing horse collar”

Purchase the book

Unfortunately, yes,” said Mr. Slant. “A dog has got personality. Personality counts for a lot. And the legal precedents are clear. In the history of this city, gentlemen, we have put on trial at various times seven pigs, a tribe of rats, four horses, one flea, and a swarm of bees. Last year a parrot was allowed as a prosecution witness in a serious murder case, and I had to arrange a witness protection scheme for it. I believe it is now pretending to be a very large budgerigar a long way away.” While the ploy works, it is touch-and-go for a minute or two--the New Firm's employers neglects to tell Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip that Vetinari "moves like a snake" and has been trained at the Assassins' Guild. They improvise, stabbing Vetinari's clerk, Drumknott, and pushing their Vetinari look-a-like into the hallway to "confess".