Dodger | 
pickWhen you think about the Discworld, especially those books set in the city and among the characters of Ankh-Morpork, it becomes clear that Pratchett can and has written historical fiction well; he'd basically written cusp-of-steam-power industrial age London with fantasy mods for years.
In the acknowledgements, Pratchett himself describes this book as historical fantasy, less because of any overt fantastical happenings, 1/?
“because a young man could get into trouble winking at gentlemen“ ...oh, yes?! 😉
So the internet tells me the winker, Mister Disraeli, is probably a former Prime Mister of the United Kingdom, another kind of dodger indeed. 😏 Pratchett is just having a marvelous time footling about in London history. 😁
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I think that light slanting through Dodger‘s cover matched Perfectly Pale pretty well.
pickIn Victorian England, a young man named Dodger makes his livelihood by trawling through the sewers for lost change & valuables. Everything changes for him when he rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.
This was a fascinating book & felt very similar to Nation, although dealing with class and ethics instead of colonialism. The world felt rich, the characters were interesting, & the social commentary was as on point as usual. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
pickI really enjoyed this mash up of Dickens‘s fictional Dodger character and the history of London with the real Charles Dickens & Mayhew authors and their studies of the London poor, the Sweeney Todd tale, and other memorable historical figures like Ada Lovelace and Babbage, etc making nod & wink appearances. A fun Pratchett adventure, with lots of great nods to real history.
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Thanks to the #Scarathlon2020 I got to read 38 books this month. 8 of them were audio books, but only 5 were from my TBR. That's due to the challenge month - I tried to focus on books that would bring points to #TeamSlaughter
Now it's time for a new reading month! ❤
“In that sense, all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear, notwithstanding that a man sitting opposite them might very well brew an entirely different view as to the nature of the occurrence.” #skull #QuotsyOct20
I'm about to head to bed 😴 So I'm closing my #24b4Monday with 15.18 hours. 9 hours short, but still a good time for me. Also, I'm proud that this time I actually remembered stopping my reading time 😁😅
It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it very much!
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so-soThis reimagining of the teenage Jack Dawkins/Artful Dodger as, for the most part, the hero (hero-adjacent?) includes characters Sweeney Todd, writer Charles Dickens, and politician Benjamin Disraeli.
It was an OK read. I didn't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. The humor is its saving grace.
pickThis is not a Discworld novel. This is a book about Victorian London & a tribute to Charles Dickens with a nod to the Baker Street Irregulars. Not being a traditional “Prachett” book as the setting, language, & lack of magic are not one would expect, I still found it charming & a fun contrast to his Discworld books. And this in despite that I loathe Dickens.
The narrator, Stephen Briggs, was fabulous.
Book 4 for #SuperSeptember 🎉
pick5🌟 So far, this is my favourite Terry Pratchett. I liked the science of Discworld, but this was more fun to read, especially because I read (or had read to me) this character in the original Dickens as a child. I think I quite like Pratchett‘s Dodger more than Dickens‘s. I loved that Dickens and Mayhew were characters in this story.
Love the mental images. Pratchett manages to take common sayings and turn them into something worth noticing.
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Love Simplicity calling Dodger “hers.” It‘s so cute.
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Ah, the weird things boys think about. 🤣😂🤣
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In the book, unmentionables are everything between underwear and what‘s in your underwear.
At our house, unmentionables are dogs. We‘ve had dogs and cats, but more cats than dogs. It‘s become this thing that our cats think of dogs as “unmentionables” with the exception of K-9 units (officers, marines, seals, etc), fire dogs (firefighters), the queen‘s corgis, and the dogs on Pit Bulls and Parolees.
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Absolutely in love with this book. Mr. Charlie Dickens. Mr. Sweeny Todd. This is bloody brilliant. How have I never known about this book before now? I am in love. This could be my new favourite book.
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So many good quotables in this one.
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Such a mental image. Pratchett paints a picture in a slightly different way than Gaiman, but equally as vivid.
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Starting Terry Pratchett‘s Dodger tonight.
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When you're buying part of your niece's 1st birthday gifts at your favorite bookstore. One for her, one for me... oh another for her, okay then, another for me 😏🤓😋#halfpricebooks #bestaunt
Late one from me, hence dark photo! It's 22:40 and I should have been in bed ages ago but Harry Potter was on the TV. Even though I have it on bluray...this is #backtoreading #shelfiesunday. These are my Pratchett and Graphic Novels shelves. Also introducing my Jester bear, Muse, and my little hedgehog Lori. Both artist bears, another obsession of mine. 🐻
pickPratchett never fails to disappoint. Always a laugh, many a commentary on the parallels between his world and ours, sarcasm aplenty and a good story to hang it all on!
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There are a number of historical figures and one notable literary character, at least in part borrowed from Charles Dickens. From what I gather this Dodger is not an exact match for the Artful Dodger, and those characters around him are Pratchett's own design, when not borrowed from history. 4d
As such, I'd like to add a gentle caution for those who may have seen a later edition with what I'd call a Disney-fied cover. 4d
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