Archive for December, 2003

His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman

December 29th, 2003

Just finished the 3rd volume of this. All I can say is I’m glad I’m finished it. If I hadn’t bought the whole thing at the same time from Amazon UK I probably wouldn’t have continued. But since I’d bought them anyway I decided to finish. I agree completely with the views expressed in the [...]

Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett

December 21st, 2003

The best Discworld book so far? After reading Terry Pratchett’s latest book (Monstrous Regiment) I decided to read “Thief of Time” (TOT). I bought TOT when it came out in hardback a while back but it has languished in my bookcase ever since. I read it this week. It’s brilliant. Possibly the best Discworld book [...]