# WooHoo! The new Pratchett novel's out on Thursday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882 "2003-04-29T10:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/1 "2003-04-29T10:38:33Z")
Not sure whether this belongs here or in Cafe Society, but I know I must share. 😃 Just went to buy a wedding anniversary card for my parents, and stopped by the University bookshop on the way, and they had a huge display up for the forthcoming Pratchett book “Wee Free Men”. Being the kind of person I am, I asked the lovely lady behind the counter when aforementioned book was coming out. She replied 1st May. That’s Thursday! WOOHOO _bounce bounce bounce_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/2 "2003-04-29T10:46:19Z")
I saw an advert for that. It doesn’t look like a Discworld book. A kids book, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/3 "2003-04-29T10:49:50Z")
I don’t know. From the title it sounds like it could have something to do with the “Pictsies”. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/4 "2003-04-29T10:51:29Z")
**Fran** , its Discworld. 😃 [![](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0385605331.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) ](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0385605331.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/5 "2003-04-29T12:30:01Z")
I am still waiting for _Night Watch_ to come out in p’back over the pond, here. ☹ I had _Last Hero_ to enjoy over Christmas, but since then I have been forced to re-read _The Truth_ and _Thief of Time_ once each to get my fix (killing time between with a couple of inches-thick volumes on world history). ::taps foot impatiently:: 'vark ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/6 "2003-04-29T13:15:17Z")
Amazon has it listed as a juvenile – ages 9-12. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/7 "2003-04-29T13:19:45Z")
Hmmm… looks like its a “junior” Discworld novel. Interesting. Now I don’t know whether or not to buy it. What to do? :looks around confused: (Just for **Tir** ) :Head explodes! **KABOOM** : ---
**Author:** ![Zenham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a5b964/32.png) [@Zenham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/8 "2003-04-29T13:58:50Z")
Discworld? I feel like I’ve been missing something. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/9 "2003-04-29T17:24:20Z")
I just ordered it from [amazon.co.uk](http://amazon.co.uk) myself, together with the Straight Dope books. They won’t be here for a week or so, though. ☹ It’s a junior Discworld book, just as The Amazing Maurice AHER, and that’s good enough for me 🙂 And **Vanilla Toast** : If you haven’t heard of Discworld, you have been missing something. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/10 "2003-04-29T17:55:54Z")
I don’t care if it’s “juvenile” or not. The **Johnny Maxwell** books are highly entertaining, as is the **Bromeliad trilogy**. It is a Discworld book, too, as was **Maurice** and that one was excellent. Can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/11 "2003-05-01T15:37:59Z")
Wheee!!! I have it! Its all mine! I’m so excited - I can’t wait to get home and read it 😃 Hmmm… I wonder if I could slope off home early and hide in my room and read it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/12 "2003-05-01T16:16:38Z")
_waits for his copy to arriave vai UPS_ Grrr This is taking too long. Ya know it’s sad… I have every new pratchet book shipped to me from England because I HATE the US edition’s covers. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/13 "2003-05-01T16:22:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CRorex \* > \*\* > Ya know it’s sad… I have every new pratchet book shipped to me from England because I HATE the US edition’s covers. \*\* I don’t blame you to be honest. I’ve seen some of the US edition covers, and they are absolutely hideous. Its not fair though. I can’t go home until I’ve searched this radio galaxy survey and found all the relevant sources. There’s 199 of them! Still, 84 down, 115 to go. I want to go home and read my book please ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/14 "2003-05-01T16:35:31Z")
Let us know what you think of it, **Angua**. But… [hijack] Why is it that you never post in the same threads as **Carrot**? 😉 [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/15 "2003-05-01T16:51:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Let us know what you think of it, **Angua**. But… > > [hijack] > Why is it that you never post in the same threads as **Carrot**? 😉 > [/hijack] \*\* I will do. If I ever manage to get away from all these galaxies! As for never posting in the same threads as **Carrot** , well, we have an “arrangement” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/16 "2003-05-01T17:42:45Z")
I got to read “Wee Free Men” in an Advance Reader’s Edition and I liked it A LOT! It is a “younger readers” sort of book (plucky young heroine-type) but it also has WITCHES (my favorite Discworld characters) in small supporting-cast roles. Good stuff. \*One of the perqs of having an S.O. who’s a bookstore manager. ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/17 "2003-05-01T18:41:19Z")
We usually get the Brit Covers (Kirby and Kidby) up here nort’ ob de border. Would there be any advantage in using Amazon.ca? ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/18 "2003-05-01T19:53:05Z")
I got my copy yesterday and finished it last night. It’s a quick read. I actually didn’t think too much of it. It’s a young adult novel, so some of the humor is a little slower than his usual. It just didn’t strike any real chords with me. I thought _The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents_ was fantastic. One of my favorites in the Discworld series, actually. _Wee Free Men_ is basically a re-hashing of _Lords And Ladies_ for the younger crowd: The Queen of the Elves returns and Granny Weatherwax & Nanny Ogg make a cameo. The Nac Mac Feegles take up a lot of the scenes, and they are hilarious. They’re like mini versions of Cohen the Barbarian with better style. _Lords And Ladies_ was the first “Witches” book I read, and I actually really enjoyed it. I’d just got done my yearly re-read of _Lord of the Rings_ so the wicked take on elves was a treat. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/19 "2003-05-02T16:20:16Z")
I enjoyed it. **ratty** pretty much sums it up. The Nac Mac Feegle, are, as always, on fine form. 🙂 Crivens! ---
**Author:** ![MoronosaurusRex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@MoronosaurusRex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoronosaurusRex)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882/20 "2003-05-03T22:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > \*\* > As for never posting in the same threads as **Carrot** , well, we have an “arrangement” 😉 \*\* Lol, nice one. Details coming soon, we hope. To answer another previous post, I’m not sure if Pratchett’s novels for younger readers are ‘slower’. Perhaps Maurice was, but I think that’s more of Terry’s writing-too-much-now-or-my-getting-jaded showing. His Truckers-Diggers-Wings trilogy was superb. More accessible to 8 year olds perhaps than pure Discworld, which is only fully accessible to 12 year olds upwards (numbers made up, argue about them at your leisure), but not slower. TAAPP, no-one on the bushy side of the Atlantic needs to complain about having to wait to read the latest TP, since the cost of shipping from [amazon.co.uk](http://amazon.co.uk) isn’t much more than a meal, for many reasonable definitions of ‘meal’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-the-new-pratchett-novels-out-on-thursday/171882.md?page=2)