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Raising Steam
Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett
The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job.Review"Laugh-out-loud funny...A chuffing wonderful book." SFX "Terry Pratchett's creation is still going strong after 30 years as Ankh-Morpork branches into the railway age.There are sly nods to the history of railways and a cheeky reference to The Railway Children. Most aficionados, however, will be on the look-out for in-jokes and references from previous novels - of which there is no shortage.It is at the level of the sentence that Pratchett wins his fans." The Times "The genius of Pratchett is that he never goes for the straight allegory...he remains one of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun and the deflationary three-part list...I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts of spontaneous laughter." -- Ben Aaronovitch The Guardian About the AuthorTERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at over 75 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
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Robotswithpersonality
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As my original reading of the Discworld books was wildly out of order, I wonder whether the strong linkage to Thud! and Snuff stood out to me as much then as it did in this reread. While Moist being himself in another adventure is enjoyable (with his ever growing list of associates), as are any moments with Vimes and the City Watch, there's a fair amount of space made not just for Iron Girder and her attendants, but continuing dwarf intrigue. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/2 Between the goblins, gnomes and dwarves, this one is heavy on emphasizing the cost of and struggle to move past a tradition of narrow-minded prejudice, of rules and practices that don't serve a people anymore and all the ugliness inherent in hateful, destructive zealotry, and the tragedy in those who are talked or threatened into following a bad idea. On a lighter note, EVERYTHING about Vetinari. 😆😉 Honestly kinda love Harry King now. 🥹 6mo
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khooliha
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I will praise this very cute A'Tuin though
#OokBOokClub

Soubhiville I love it! 2y
khooliha @Soubhiville It's a real dust jacket treat! 2y
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khooliha
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I have been 100 pages into this book for 2 months and I can't bring myself to go back to it. Something about the writing! My brain can't take it! #OokBOokClub

julesG I can relate, I powered through because it's the last Discworld novel. 2y
khooliha @julesG I was hoping it would click with me in a way it didn't when I first read it, but no dice. 2y
julesG Shame! But they can't all be winners. Will you be doing the rest of the buddyread with us? 2y
khooliha @julesG I will for the last 2 books I own, his nonfiction collection and The Shepherd's Crown. I haven't read The Shepards's Crown before and I'm looking forward to doing it for the first time with everybody! 2y
julesG I'm also looking forward to Shepherd's Crown. It will be my first read, too. And then I'm looking forward to the biography to round up the whole book club. 2y
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BookmarkTavern
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Steam engines have come to the Disc. At the same time, a small & vocal group of dwarves are committing terrorism & arson in the name of “Dwarves First.” Fortunately, chaos is where Moist von Lipwig thrives.

I love the Moist novels. Chaotic & thrilling, but also thoughtful commentaries. Here we watch a vocal group push against progress & change, because they are scared & angry. Loved the whole cast, loved the goblins, loved the ending. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

jitteryjane724 Have you read much Pratchett? I'd be curious for the sequence you recommend going through Discworld. 2y
Vansa I love his Moist books.Theyre a beautiful alternate description of Victorian era technological developments. 2y
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Vansa @jitteryjane724 I read Discworld in the chronological order of publication of books! They're hugely enjoyable either way. But for books with a particular set of characters, for instance, The Watch series, or the Witches, you have to read those in order. 2y
BookmarkTavern @jitteryjane724 I first read them in the order that my library had available copies! 😂 So no order at all, but I love sharing this flow chart for people interested in starting! https://goddamnshinyrock.tumblr.com/post/702487404966232064/goddamnshinyrock-god... 2y
jitteryjane724 @ozma.of.oz thanks for the flow chart! I'll probably use this to help decide, but I too am at the mercy of my library 😁 2y
jitteryjane724 @Vansa good point!! 2y
TheSpineView Great job! 2y
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Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the #RaisingSteam post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

#OokBOokClub #Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

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julesG
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Welcome to the #OokBOokClub open discussion for #RaisingSteam feel free to discuss anything! Don't forget to tag each other in the comments so your friends can see your reply. Have fun!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

Soubhiville I loved this. The cast of characters, as always, was great. I love that the engine was her own character in a way. The trolls are some of my favorite characters. And I‘m a big Moist fan. I‘m just sad that this is the last of the Discworld novels. I may reread the Tiffany Aching series later this year. Thanks for hosting the discussions @julesG ! 2y
julesG @Soubhiville 😘 I'm also sad this is the last Discworld novel. 😭 Moist has become a favourite of mine too. 2y
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BookmarkTavern It always boggles my mind how timely his books remain, whether they were written ten years ago or forty. I absolutely loved the complete chaos that results from the steam engines. I loved more of the goblins. I‘ve always wondered if Pratchett had written more, would we have seen Vetinari molding Moist into the next patrician? 2y
julesG @ozma.of.oz Interesting question. Probably. It makes sense. But I always thought Vetinari was going to be patrician forever. 2y
khooliha @ozma.of.oz It feels very much like that was going to be Moist's path, but maybe in a way we wouldn't get to see. Don't know how Ankh-Morpork would handle a lighthearted Patrician! 2y
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Soubhiville
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A whole lot of my favorite characters work together in this final Discworld novel. Moist, Vimes, Vetinari (who is on my bookmark 🥰), along with some new characters, help to usher in the age of the steam engine. Dwarven politics come into play again, with some twists I really loved.

It makes me really sad that this concludes my reread of the entire Discworld series. I think in 2023 I‘ll reread the Tiffany Aching series.

BoldCityBooks Did you reread all 42 of them this year? 2y
Soubhiville @BoldCityBooks no, I started my reread about 4 years ago. When these clothbound editions started being released I started collecting them, then decided to read the whole series in order. My previous readings were random order, whatever the library had. 2y
Ruthiella Awesome achievement! I only started reading these a couple of years ago. Only 39 more books to go! 😂 2y
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#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #RaisingSteam!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

Soubhiville Started it today 🙂 2y
julesG @Soubhiville That's great. 2y
DrexEdit Ope! I'm already behind. :-) But not too far behind. Looking forward to getting back into Discworld this month! 😄 2y
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khooliha
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I think this paragraph is a good example of the problem I am once again having with this book - I feel like it's constantly skipping over dialog or happenings with the narrative just saying "Moist did this." Why not just write this dialog?
#OokBOokClub

khooliha Turns out it's probably good that I started this book a month early - I really cannot take more than a couple pages of it at a time. 2y
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khooliha
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I have just realized I am reading this too early! Because the Long Blank books are so forgettable that my brain elided over them! Whoops!
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khooliha
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I am trying to put my finger on what doesn't feel right about this (because it didn't feel right the first time and it doesn't feel right now) and: maybe it's the very long speeches people are giving uninterrupted?
(Moist also hasn't been in it much, for a Moist book, but that's more disappointing than anything.)
#OokBOokClub

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khooliha
Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett

Starting this book for #OokBOokClub and I am reminded: I don't much care about trains. It was one of my problems the first time around!

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Soubhiville
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My final #bookspin board for 2023! Thank you @TheAromaofBooks for continuing to host this fun monthly challenge. 💕📚❄️

These really aren‘t seasonal, but my #AuthorAMonth and books for both of my bookclubs are on there, as well as a few books I picked up at the #TexasBookFestival last month. Looking forward to the picks!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2y
Bklover I just checked out The Housekeeper and the Professor for December #authoramonth . And I‘m gonna read it! 2y
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Robotswithpersonality
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A joy. The best of the Discworld books leave you with hope about the future, and this one did. It reminds people that hate is corrosive to the individual and the group, that acceptance is something we should all strive to practice, that invention can be essential, life-saving, and change, necessary. I had a lot of fun with the train journey and flipping back frequently to the map at the front. 🚂

julesG Oh. Current #OokBOokClub read. I need to dig up my copy. 2y
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Note the change in hats! 🥹

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Dwarven smack talk. 😆

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Well that's a vivid rebuttal to an old turn of phrase!

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😔

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Assimilation of a culture: "Something was being stolen from the world without anybody noticing or caring."

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In love with these end papers.

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julesG
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#OokBOokClub

Just a friendly reminder that next month we'll be reading #RaisingSteam! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on December 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

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BookBr
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As always with Pratchett, an adventurous tale that is actually an in-depth look at many issues — the challenges and dangers of progress and change, the instability of peace, and always, always the incredible power of the imagination, both singular and collective. I‘m not sure it all held together as seamlessly as some of his earlier work, but thoroughly enjoyable regardless. The Librarian recommends.

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BookBr
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Taking a break from The Luminaries, because what even is that book, with something hopefully a little more digestible…

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Jari-chan
Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett
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Mehso-so

It hurts a little to rate a Pratchett only So-So, but I'd say this was the weakest of his books I read so far. Sure, it does have its good moments, especially with the dwarfs, but all in all it just ended up way to long. The story drags on, no real plot is in sight, and Terrys usual wit is totally missing. Actually, this was the first time I got bored reading a Discworld novel...

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Always sad when a favorite author leaves you feeling a little disappointed!! 3y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Sadly, that's so true... 😔 3y
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Vansa
Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett
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#funfriYAY @HappilyEverKrafter
1.Moist is one of my favourite characters ever,I absolutely love how he always tries to do the right thing.Adorabelle Dearheart too.Genuinely badass
2.Lauren Olamina from Butler's Parable duology,so resourceful,brave and humane.
3.Psmith, from Wodehouse,totally hilarious.
4.Captain Vimes, for the humanity and sense of honour.
5.Gilbert from Small Island,he reminds me of my dad who's one of the nicest people I know.

HappilyEverKrafter Thank you for playing! And for giving me new books to discover! 😊 4y
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AnkhMorpork enters the Railway Age.

Lots of cameo roles for people from previous books, making it a conscious swansong even if it wasn't actually the last book.

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emtobiasz
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#audiobook Moist von Lipwig drags Discworld into the modern (steam) age by way of the railways. A fun installment of #Discworld, but this felt like it was trying to wrap up too many characters‘ storylines at once for me. I know it‘s one of the last of Pratchett‘s novels, but I‘m reading them all out of order. I‘ll probably appreciate more of the references when I‘ve read more of the books.

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Soubhiville
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#bookmail
Today I got the last two of the Discworld series in this edition. I‘m hoping maybe they‘ll reprint the Tiffany Aching series in a matching edition, but there are already so many different releases of those, I‘m not sure they‘ll actually do it.

❤️ my Pratchett. #PratchettPosse

saresmoore Snuff is gorgeous! 5y
Aimeesue I would LOOOOOVE The Wee Free Men in a Gollancz édition! 5y
britt_brooke 😍 5y
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Severnmeadows One of my favourites!😊 5y
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madamereadsalot1
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gradcat So funny...are you by any chance watching “Good Omens”? 5y
madamereadsalot1 @gradcat I am! I have 2 episodes left. I know there's only 6, but I haven't had a lot of time to spend with it recently. I'm really loving what I've seen! 5y
gradcat I‘m am in exactly the same place you are—two episodes to go! Fourth episode slowed me down a bit—there‘s a lot of empty space when Sheen & Tennant aren‘t on screen! 😂 5y
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madamereadsalot1 @gradcat I fully agree. They are the absolute perfect casting! 5y
gradcat Can you stand it when Tennant starts strutting around, and with all of those hair styles—too much! I love it! 5y
madamereadsalot1 @gradcat he is TOO adorable! 5y
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Aimeesue
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Moist von Lipwig, on sale in US ebook stores!
#ookbookclub

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Moray_Reads
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It couldn't pain me more to give the last Discworld novel before Sir Terry's death a so-so but I feel that some of his decline comes through. There are brilliant bits, angry bits and that essential moral core but the pacing is off and the plot feels loose and uncoordinated. There's plenty of Vetinari and I was thrilled to see Vimes but they weren't quite themselves. A bittersweet end to the "adult" Discworld. Just The Sorcerer's Crown to go ?

jillrhudy I felt the same about the last few. 😔 6y
Moray_Reads @jillrhudy the Moist books aren't my favourites though I enjoyed the first two well enough but I loved Thud! and Snuff so I really only felt it slipping significantly with this one 6y
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It was ok but I can't help but feel not a whole lot happened and I didn't really get attached to any of the characters. Well, ok, I liked one goblin but that was partially the audiobook narrator doing a great job.

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Aimeesue Hahahaha! Poor assassins! 6y
Moray_Reads @Aimeesue Not the best career move for them... 6y
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Surf the tide or be smashed on the rocks

Eelijah Surf the tide all the way to land. 6y
PeanutButterPie @Eelijah and yet so many people prefer the other option :/ 6y
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Well, viva escargot! ... although the secret ingredient, he was quite sure, was likely to be avec

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Because that‘s where he puts people he doesn‘t like

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captainpunchmerica
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#riotgrams - Day 10: Book Deserving More Readers. Raising Steam is the rare fantasy book that challenges us to fight for justice, not accept the status quo, and genuinely look forward to a better world. It‘s so good.

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Vagablonde
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Next up: one I've waited too long to get to. My sister gave me the companion book for Christmas years ago, but I didn't tell her I hadn't read this one yet.

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I have tonight and all of tomorrow to read this, so I decided to chance it.
And look: End papers! A map! 😍
#25inFive

Andrew65 Love maps! 👏 7y
Moray_Reads This is my next Discworld. Then it's just the last two Tiffany Aching and I'm done 😢😢 7y
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Vansa
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As caustic as ever. What a brilliant mind.

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Fernoppy
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"Moist and his unhappy but hopeful band were shepherded surreptitiously from behind by Of the Twilight the Darkness, who was becoming a great lieutenant, despite the fact that he brazenly considered Moist to be a bit of a tit. But a useful tit all the same." After starting a new job yesterday, I've come back to an old friend for a comfort read; my brain is too fried from information overload for anything new. #sirterry #discworld

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misslupescu
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I suck at social media. Well when it‘s more than two.
Anywho, quick book update:
Read 60 books this year so far. Currently reading this one.
Delved into the world audio books and loving it. The Help is my fave so far.
Err..... I have a new bookcase for my TBR as the boxes weren‘t working.

Christmas is expected to be full of books. I will try and remember to share with what I‘ve got. ^_^

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Balibee146
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Not a surprise that this is far from my favourite Discworld. I love most of STP's characters but his genial, heart in the right place capitalists don't appeal to me. Too much Vetinari as well - I love him but he should be used sparingly. He also seemed strangely ooc here. #read2017