The Bromeliad

[sci-fi girl]

Do you know about Masklin, Grimma, The Thing, Gurder, Angalo, Granny Morkie?
If not, add the Bromeliad trilogy on your Cristmas list!!! That tiny people from another world living now hidden among humans is one of my favourite non Discworld story of Terry Pratchett, completely hilarious isn't it?
If you think so please have a sit and let's talk. *some tea? Cookies?*
And if not... Well, it's Christmas so come in. *tea, cookies, a new edition of the Bromeliad?*

[Faceless Woman]

Not fond of non-discworld Pratchett to be honest, but I will take the tea and cookies.

[Joel007]

I enjoyed the bromeliad trilogy, but I would suggest going to it only once you have exhausted all other pratchett options (except the jonny trilogy).
Good books in their own right, but honestly can't hold a candle to his discworld

hmm, discoworld? sounds funky.

[Thadlerian]

No, Bromeliad is really good. It's almost on the Johnny Maxwell level, at least Diggers and Wings. It's different from Discworld, more serious in tone, much like Pratchett's later Discworld and Tiffany Aching novels.

[Allegra]

Talking about Johnny Maxwell, I recently bought a boxset for myself at a very good price from play.com, which is my fav online bookshop. It'd make a very nice Xmas present but they deliver to Europe only. http://play.com/Books/Books/CART/3-/...urce=0&cur=258

[Scriven]

I like the Bromeliad trilogy a lot! Especially Diggers, with the mysterious beast called Jekub. It took me a long time to work that one out.

[The Technophobe]

Tech jumps up from behind a sofa "I liked this series as well, the sequence in the aeroplane is sooooooooooo funny", puts his arms out and runs round the room shouting "Wheeeeeeeee", trips over his own feet and lands in a heep in the corner. "It would be good to have another series, is there one in the pipeline?" Tech says to Sci-Fi Girl while proceeding to nibble on a ginger snap he produced from his pocket "Anybody want one?"

[sci-fi girl]

It would be good to have another series

Completely, totally agree, Tech!!!
*No, thanx Tech. Produced a king-size box of ferreros. Want some?*
Just imagine Gurder and the Thing travelling up and down Earth, searching for other Nomes... *Pousse un gros soupir*

[chrispenycate]

Meep?

Je trouvais que… non, I found that he was writing down to children for that series, while for "the Amazing Maurice" and his other recent "Discworld for the younger reader" novels he's discovered that les gosses were reading (and presumably enjoying) his supposedly adult books. Not that there aren't subtle digs that parents will appreciate more than their offspring in the "nome" series, merely that he was a little more cautious.
I know that nephews were enjoying the "full fledged" discworld books from the age of eight (well, yes, they had been intermittently exposed to me practically from birth, which might possibly distort a child's viewpoint) but I've found children are remarkably capable of following adult language, as long as they don't feel you're deliberately mocking them (and assuming, of course, that they want to; if they decide to play stupid, they can be almost as stubborn as me)

[Faceless Woman]

Agreement.I haven't set foot in a children's section since I was nine.
I can also say that daddy dearest enjoyed the Tiffany books rather more than I did.

[Nesacat]

I read the Bromeliad books very soon after discovering Terry Pratchett and I did enjoy them. However as far as his writing for children goes, I much prefer his new Tiffany books. And my favourites will always be the Death books. I have however found that the Bromeliad books are a good introduction for very much younger children as well as a couple of adults who had not read much fantasy at all. They all then went on to read more.

[sci-fi girl]

I have however found that the Bromeliad books are a good introduction for very much younger children as well as a couple of adults who had not read much fantasy at all.

Agree with the beginning of your sentence, but not really *not at all* with the end. Don't say I've read all fantasies books in the world *would made me very sad, even mad* but I'm definetely not a novice *though I haven't read the Tiffany books, *could be a good idea for a Cristmas present :-)* ; I've read the Bromeliad long after I discovered Terry Pratchett and the discworld books. I'm not very good on dissecting every single line, *analysing wether it's adult reading or not^^* but the Bromeliad are still in my top ten list even before some of the discworld books.

[Gwillion]

Ooh I loved the Bromeliad ... I must read it again sometime (it was a library book..sigh).

I did jot down a quote from it though (I've kept a book journal since 2001):

"That's because my teeth believe in him. And so do my knees and my stomach. It's only me head that doesn't, and it's being carried around by a load of superstitious cowards."

I can't remember the exact context - which is probably just as well as I don't want to spoil the plot for those who haven't read it - but I just thought it was a brilliant description of someone who knows they shouldn't be afraid of something, but are anyway!

Discworld is genius - but sometimes it's nice to read Pratchett let loose in a different environment!

[Lenny]

The first Pratchett book I got was Truckers, and that was when I was about 6. At 11 I read a Discworld book, and at 12 I realised I had Truckers and read it.

I didn't think it anywhere near as good as any Discworld books, but I still want to read Diggers.

[sanityassassin]

I tried to read Truckers years ago and just could not get into it. I liked the first Johnny novel and I like the Tiffany books too.