2002 Year End Staff Picks

Jingo, Terry Pratchett
Recommended by Matthew

I had the pleasure to meet my favourite living author earlier this year - I was completely taken aback when I found out that Terry Pratchett was coming to Vancouver Island, and that he was going to actually talk to us Victorians! He was so nice that at the end of his two-and-a-half hour talk, he would not leave the building until every single person there had an autograph or two (from him).

But enough about Terry, this is about me, well, me and one of the books he wrote…. Jingo is my current favourite of the many (and I mean many) titles in the hugely popular Discworld series. In fact, this is the title I buy for friends upon whom I try to impart my absolute joy of reading Terry Pratchett novels (mental osmosis having already failed by this point). In fact I had two copies signed and personalized for my Dad and my sister's boyfriend while Terry was in town… so now they have to read them! If you enjoy the works of Douglas Adams, and you enjoy a good chuckle, then this is the book for you!

But what is Jingo about? Well, it's mainly about crime, er I mean war... "A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld. Suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morkpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called "war." He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on *his* side. The enemy might be worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got "Die" under "Things To Do Today". But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's guaranteed to stop a battle..."

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