The Carpet People - Terry Pratchett Reviews

“The Carpet People” by Terry Pratchett is a book with a strange history. First published when Pratchett was only seventeen in 1971 to moderate success it sold out and there was no intention to republish. Following the success of the Discworld Series the version in my possession is an edited version in that Pratchett has re-written it to reflect ...  Read the complete review

The Carpet People was Terry Pratchett’s first novel, written when he was 17. It was printed, it sold, no new print run was planned. End of story. Well, not quite. Some time passed, and Pratchett wrote Strata. This explored the idea of a planet that was actually a disc – flat. Some more time passed, and Pratchett wrote The Colour of ...  Read the complete review

I got into reading Terry Pratchett a couple of years ago, and have been reading his books ever since, you may be aware of his incredibly successful discworld series, well I stared to read all of the series from beginning, having read the latest five first. At the moment there are about 27 ish discworld novels, so I've been alternating between ...  Read the complete review

The people and tribes of "the Carpet", are under threat from a terrible enemy - Fray. Two brothers and their tribe must battle the followers of Fray, the Mouls, power hungry creatures who will stop at nothing... This is one of the lesser known books by Pratchett, and was in written by 2 people - Terry Pratchett age 17, and Terry ...  Read the complete review

I've read the original by Pratchett aged 17 and the new one that hs been 'improved' by Pratchett aged 40 something and have to say that I found the original the best. Thsi is simply a brillaint book. Suitable for children it is also imminently suited for adults as all the best children's books are. Telling the story of Snibril ...  Read the complete review

I read this book when i was about 11, and really into the Truckers, Diggers, Wings trilogy, and the Johnny and the ...... series, both by Pratchett. The Carpet people is really a sort of link between those sort of characters and the slightly skewed situations of Discworld. I think that it is slightly more biased to younger readers than the ...  Read the complete review

The carpet people is one of the greatest of Pratchetts book's, written by a younger Pratchett and a modern Pratchett this book gives a different approach to the discworld that can be easily enjoyed by all. The story of the leaders hurt and disrupted by the Chaos that is fray and the ensuing mayhem that the Moules bring will make ...  Read the complete review

The Carpet People is simply one of the best books I have ever read. As with other Pratchett books such as the Truckers Trilogy and the Johnny and the ... books this one can be enjoyed by young readers as well as adults. The different age groups obviously receive different things when reading. The plot is extremely compelling and the way ...  Read the complete review

Thank goodness Terry Pratchett saw fit to dig this one out, dust it off, and let us have a look. It is a book he wrote as a seventeen year old, and decided to rewrite now that he is a multi-kajillion best-selling genius. And while this sound like someone trying to make money with minimum effort, because he knows we will read anything with his name ...  Read the complete review

This is a unusual book, in that it has two authors, both of whom are the same person. The original 'Carpet People' was written by Terry Pratchet in his late teens, published in small numbers, and disappeared. Later, when Terrys books began to sell, people kept asking about this book 'the carpet people', by the same author, and ...  Read the complete review