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Diggers - Terry Pratchett

 
Description: ISBN 0552551015 / Author: Terry Pratchett / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Fresh from their success in Truckers, the gnomes return to face new challenges in this second volume of a trilogy. This time, the little folk end up in an abandoned quarry - fighting their way out of a snow ... more
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Newest Review: ... But then one day a notice appears saying that the quarry is about to be re-opened. Diggers is a classic example or a tale ... more

 ... which looks at the world through different eyes. Everyday items are marvels to the Nomes. Also their brand of logic is… different. The main storyline involves them escaping from / protecting the quarry, internal power struggles, and learning more about themselves. Their reactions are at times very human despite the fact that they think a different way. Most of the humour is incidental or satirical, with slightly less character-based humour than I felt there should be. There are indeed some funny moments in this b...more

CaptainD
Premium Review Diggers - Terry Pratchett: After The Store there is... The quarry! (492 words)
by CaptainD - written on 22/08/05 (Very useful, 117 readings)
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Diggers is the second book in the Bromeliad trilogy, the stars of which are the Nomes (no not Gnomes, Nomes!). The Nomes are small people (about 5 inches in height) who seem to have come from outer space and lived under the floorboards at a store. The signs at the store become laws for them, and they believe that the Store (and thus the universe) was created by the stores proprietors. In the first book the store if about to be demolished so they have to learn new skills (such as.. truck driving!) to escape. They end up living in a quarry, and start to make it into a home. (By doing such things is “mining” potatoes…) But then one day a notice appears saying that the ...

brownp1
Premium Review Keep on Truckin ........... Again (340 words)
by brownp1 - written on 11/05/01 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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This is the 2nd book in PTerry’s nome trilogy, following on from Truckers which followed the nomes escape from the Arnold Bros. (est. 1905) department store and its imminent demolishment to a safe refuge in a deserted quarry. Taking a step backwards, if you haven’t read the books or other ops nomes are 4 inch high creatures resembling squat sumo wrestlers but who can move so fast that the human eye can not usually see them, although we have racial memories of (g)nomes and sit them in our gardens. The nomes crashed on earth 15,000 years ago and now that mankind has reached the stars are trying to find their way back home. Back to the book ...

welshwolf
Premium Review Diggers - Terry Pratchett: A good kids book (108 words)
by welshwolf - written on 11/09/00 (Useful, 106 readings)
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The truckers series was created for children not the normal Prattchet readers, but being a avid fan I felt I had to read them and enjoyed them. Dorcas and Grimmato defend their new home and as always they manage to enlist the help of a mechanical friend Jekub The gnomes have been doomed to spend the rest of there lives running away and the story is basically the day to day problems? I feel that the series would make an excellent cartoon series with some strong characters and a story line that lends itself to TV. A good book that kids of all ages will enjoy. ...

 

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