# Oh sweet, sweet new Pratchett **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752 "2001-04-29T19:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752/21 "2001-05-01T14:13:29Z")
It is available at the big box bookstores here in Chicago right now. I just can’t justify $25 right now. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752/22 "2001-05-01T14:21:08Z")
Yikes! You guys are making me ashamed of my spendthrift ways. Not only did I buy \* The Thief of Time\* in hardback, but I also bought the new DVD release of _The Mummy_ and \* This is Spinal Tap\*, plus a couple of hardback Wodehouse from the bargain rack at Borders. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752/23 "2001-05-03T00:32:03Z")
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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752/24 "2001-05-03T00:54:27Z")
I’m reading **Thief of Time** now, (I should be seeing patients, but t’ellwiddem!). He just gets deeper and deeper, and funnier and funnier. **And** I just finished **The Bromeliad** last week, had to order the english edition to finally get my hands on a copy! Glad to see it’s gonna be a movie. Hope they don’t slaughter it. But it’s true, the sooner I finish, the sooner it’s over, the longer wait until the next book. Anyone out there read **Strata** , his proto-discworld book? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752/25 "2001-05-03T02:31:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > **Being a Doper in the States, I wanna make sure I’m up to speed.** As a fellow Stateside doper, I sympathise. > [@](#): > > **_The Fifth Elephant_ just came out in paperback. > _The Truth_ is out NOW in hardcover? When is it expected in paperback?** T\*The Fifth Elephant\* came out in paperback (in the UK) about five months ago; that’s when I ordered it from Amazon UK, IIRC. _The Truth_ has been in hardcover for about nine months; it _should_ be in paperback Any Day Now, but still nothing so far. Grrrrrrrr… > [@](#): > > **Now there’s a new one. _Thief of Time_. Is that only hardcover in U.K.? Or is it paperback? And how long till it hits a bookstore near me in paperback? About a year and a half?** _Theft of Time_ was just released in hardcover. I suspect the paperback won’t be out until next year, at the earliest. If you’re waiting for an American paperback release, I don’t know how long it’ll take – the US publisher is getting _much_ better at getting up to speed, but I think we’re a few months behind the UK releases. (I feel bad that I’m buying the UK releases, because if I get the US ones, that will show there’s American demand for Pratchett. But the UK paperbacks have those nifty covers…) > [@](#): > > **And when Mr. Pratchett kills off one of his characters, are they DEAD dead. Or do they get to hang around as a ghost or something?** The indications are that the character is fairly major – while not at the Rincewind or Vimes level, certainly someone we’ve seen before. I _think_ I know who it is, simply because I know the title of the novel due out **after** _Theft of Time_… > [@](#): > > **Maybe if he offed CMOT Dibbler it wouldn’t be so bad.** What? No more meat-sausage-inna-bun jokes? _Heretic!_🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-sweet-sweet-new-pratchett/63752.md?page=1)