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Jingo Terry Pratchett

Jingo By Terry Pratchett

Jingo by Terry Pratchett


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Summary

People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.'Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war.

Jingo Summary

Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21) by Terry Pratchett

Read by Tony Robinson 'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.' Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn't. And in such pressing circumstances, you really shouldn't let small details like the absence of an army or indeed the money to finance one get in the way of a righteous fight with all the attendant benefits of out-and-out nationalism...

Jingo Reviews

'Both his inventiveness and his moral shrewdness seem inexhaustible' * Daily Mail *
'Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour' * Daily Mail *
'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld' * Sunday Telegraph *
'One of those very rare writers who appeals to everyone... He satisfies the need for fast-moving, breathtaking plots with entirely satisfying endings, and the equally primitive desire for an alternative world, full of thrills but benign, into which one can step for pleasure and enlivenment' * Daily Express *
'Vintage Pratchett... Perennially funny...A sharp satire on the futility of war' * Metro *

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

Additional information

GOR006422653
9780552154178
0552154172
Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21) by Terry Pratchett
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Random House Children's UK
20060202
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