Making Money by Terry Pratchett
wfzimmerman's review: "I was absolutely thrilled when this arrived the evening before I was leaving on a three-day business trip. What perfect timing! What a splendid antidote to airport boredom! It did the job, too, as my outbound trip was terrific. I finished reading the book in the hotel room the first night. Unfortunately, I didn't have any other new Pratchetts to read on the flight home, which was horrendous with a two-hour runway delay followed by a turbulent flight.
The second in the Moist von Lipwig series is very good Pratchett, perhaps not quite his best but still very enjoyable. The protagonists' gf Adora Belle spends too much time off-screen, and the villain is too delusional to be quite as frightening as possible.
Must reading for Pratchett fans, but not the book to start with."Doubleday (2007), Hardcover, 352 pages
tags: first UK edition, collecting author's complete works, Pratchett, Discworld, fantasy, economics
wfzimmerman's review: "I wish I had the time to watch every Bogart movie referenced in this book. This cries out for a "new media" treatment!
Good stuff, but not the best "Burglar" or Block."
wfzimmerman's review: "LOCUS Magazine ran a remarkably mush-minded appreciation of Heinlein on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The plain truth is that much of Heinlein's later writing is now plainly embarrassing and we should not want it to stand the test of time. The same is not true of [[STARSHIP TROOPERS]]. This is still a terrific book and its brand of tough-minded ecological militarism is still much in need as the world struggles with the implications of having 6.5 billion "boss primates" underfoot."
wfzimmerman's review: "A must book as I use GIMP (an open source Photoshp) for all my book covers."
wfzimmerman's review: "I found this for $2.00 at a rummage sale at the pharmacy at Saline St. Joseph Hospital in Saline, Michigan. It's a first UK S&S edition. The ISBN is the same as the S&S U.S. edition, and no printing #s have been removed, but the price is lbs 20 net and the cover is distinctive.
In any event, for $2.00 this was a great buy, as this is still a definitive history of its subject."
wfzimmerman's review: "PIcked this up at a garage sale for 50c. Good buy! I want to own the complete Calvin & Hobbes oeuvre."
wfzimmerman's review: "A really cool book. Dr. Seuss's drawings look the same when he is drawing Hitler as when he is drawing Horton or the Cat in the Hat. It's also gratifying that Seuss was so right so early about the Fascist threat..."
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