Or Mexican standoff in our world, which is when two people have loaded, cocked guns pointed right at each other. It had the feeling of re-watching a TV series with someone who’s never seen it, I kept wanting to turn around and tell myself the importance of Detritus, Sybil and Pseudopolis Yard. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). Once their plan’s in motion they’ll be able to oust the Patrician (the City’s benign dictator) and take over.

In one of the earliest episodes our Shaolin monk-in-training was tasked to walk along a sheet of rice paper without ripping it or leaving a mark. Personajes exóticos, mágicos y únicos son los que crea Pratchett, se distinguen de todo lo leído y conocido.

L. dragon has been produced by "The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night" (which was very Python-esque) when the "Thuribles of Destiny" had been chastised. And this book is our introduction to our cynical (anti)hero, uncompromising, grumpy and terrifyingly sober/knurd ('knurd' as in complete and utter opposite to drunk, beyond simple sobriety) Ankh-Morpork copper with the unsettling tendency to ask uncomfortable questions when others would much rather he didn't. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 55 million copies (give or take a few million) and have been translated into 36 languages. I love that whether I devour them in one sitting, or pace myself to just a few pages a day, it remains an intensely enjoyable reading experience.

Pratchett is at the peak of his powers; it's hard to think of any humorist writing in Britain today who can match him. I've listened to Tony Robinson read the best third of the book, laughed about eleven times and chortled more. This book reads like if Men in Tights and The Princess Bride had a baby in a death metal concert where everyone wore clown suits because the lead rocker said so. The only thing Pratchett keeps sacred is books and libraries, all else is fair game for biting sarcasm! Some of Terry's accolades include: The Carnegie Medal, Locus Awards, the Mythopoetic Award, ALA Notable Books for Children, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Book Sense 76 Pick, Prometheus Award and the British Fantasy Award.

Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.

The movie 48 Hrs, starring Nick Nolte and Eddy Murphy, has a scene in which Eddy Murphy is in a bar full of rednecks, shouting "I am your worst nightmare! If we shoot back to 1999 (ten years after the book was first published) I asked my Dad to get me Guards! La ciudad de Ankh-Morpork está gobernada por un Patricio, Lord Vetinari, que ha legalizado los asesinatos, los robos, la mendicidad y la prostitución para tenerlos controlados. He also skewers the masses’ tendency to blindly accept whoever has the biggest gun (or fire breathing talent).I would escape to the Discworld when it all became too much, and I wish I’d had a chance to put that into words for the man himself while he was still with us. Like I said, skip them until you've read some of the really good ones, and then brace yourself and read them purely for continuity purposes. Everything’s in place, they’ve got a book on how to summon dragons, they’ve got their plethora of stolen magical items, and they’ve got a king. Prepare to breathe fog while avoiding being roasted by the chemical jaws of a dragon wandering around the city seeking revenge.

I’m lucky as I haven’t read every Discworld yet, but I know a day will come when I’ve read everything new to me. When this doesn't work after many years he foregoes a wee dram and actually starts investigating a case for the first time in years. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly.

Nuestro otro héroe es Zanahoria, un Enano mú grande que puede no ser un Enano, en absoluto, para la genética, en posesión de la espada menos mágica que existe. However, Pratchett more than made up for this when he introduced Scrappy the Kangaroo as a character in The Last Continent.