The Truth - Terry Pratchett Reviews

Title - the truth Main Characters William de worde - the hero Sacharissa - the pretty lady Otto Creek - the vampire with the light fetish Mr Pin - cold and calculated murderer and leader of the New Firm Mr Tulip - Psychotic, Want to be substance abuser and the extremely large muscle behind the new ...  Read the complete review

William de Worde is a want away member of the aristocracy. He has chosen a low key life away from his high born and relentlessly racist family. He eeks out a modest living writing letters of current events to notable members of society but finds himself forced into the strangely alluring and increasingly dangerous world of the newspaper. In ...  Read the complete review

Tery Pratchett according to a discussion we have had recently on the forums of the book swap site, READITSWAPIT, is one of those authors you either love or hate. Those who hate him mainly seem to occupy the camp of people who don't fully "get" his humour and find him ever so slightly childish; me, I am in two minds about him finding some ...  Read the complete review

-- "There’s a rumour in the mountains… the Dwarves have learned how to turn lead into gold…" -- ---------- Ankh Morpork has never had a newspaper – people like William DeWorde are paid to write letters to important people containing little snippets of news and gossip. The Dwarves have invented ...  Read the complete review

The Truth is fanstastiv. another barkingly brilliant entry in series that shows no signs of getting tired or predictable. This time around, having already dealt with such diverse subjects as the rock biz, musical theatre, international relations and the roots of religions, Terry Pratchett turn his attention to his former profession, journalism - ...  Read the complete review

THE MVW MONTHLY OBSERVER Bringing you news and reviews Issue 1 June 2002 Issue 2 Oct 2009 NEW NEWPAPER IN ANKH-MORPORK PROMISES TO TELL ONLY THE TRUTH Residents of Ankh Morpork today were introduced to 'The Ankh Morpork Times', a 2 penny newspaper which tells of current events. The editor William de Worde ...  Read the complete review

Pratchett’s Discworld series has over the years become a bit of an institution and the fandom has grown with the books. Many will boast to have read all the novels and to be, as it were, on first name basis with all the characters. In order to satisfy the fans, it seems that Pratchett opted a long time ago to write specifically for them. The ...  Read the complete review

The Truth is Terry Pratchett's 25th novel about Discworld in general and the dirt-encrusted metropolis of Ankh-Morpork in particular--home of the sinister Patrician, the Unseen University of magicians and guilds for everything from Assassins to Thieves, taking in Clowns (but not mimes) along the way. Ankh-Morpork has weathered several influxes ...  Read the complete review

Don't expect an inspired opinion. Maybe it's my fault, maybe it's just not a very interesting book (by Discworld standards, which are high, according to those of us who have to read every Discworld novel.) I certainly enjoyed it anyway. However, it doesn't do much to engage you beyond a first reading. If you've read any other ...  Read the complete review

"The Truth" is up there with Pratchett's best. I don't know if it is because I enjoy the Guards series most or because Pratchett did something special for the 25th Discworld novel (can you believe it?!) but this book just rocked ... (it was a book with rocks in, even). "The Truth" is another social semi-satire, ...  Read the complete review

This is the 25th book in the discworld series and having read every one of them i can honestly say that while this might not be the best one ever it is one of the good ones. With some of the not so good ones you can find yourself a bit lost sometimes and some of the jokes don't flow as well as others so you have to read them a few times before ...  Read the complete review

I'm a big discworld fan and was excited to hear the release of another one was due, especially as this time I had the opportunity to get a signed copy. I waited in line for over an hour to get it signed to be told by some people things like "This is only a small queue, last year it was x times bigger", got my book signed and left ...  Read the complete review

Set in Ankh Morpork The Truth follows the fortunes of William de Worde, a young noble disillusioned with the life of the second son (and nobility in general) who, almost accidentally, starts the Discworld's first newspaper. Collecting new characters along the way the book unfolds with Pratchett's usual ease and you follow along blithely. ...  Read the complete review

How does he do it? The series is 25 episodes young, and every line is still crammed with joke. Relentless humour, insightful observations, and most importantly, another cracking storyline. As you're reading The Truth, you'll become amazed at the mans motivation to keep writing gag after gag, each one as funny as the last. But his jokes ...  Read the complete review

This is the 25th book in the Discworld series, so for his silver anniversary is TP showing signs of literature senility and just repeating himself or are the jokes as excruciatingly funny as ever? Well I have to admit this op doesn’t come from a wholly unbiased viewpoint as TP is my favourite author and I often re-read his books in ...  Read the complete review

I am an avid Terry Pratchett Fan, i have all the books and maps and diaries etc etc. After i finished reading The Truth i have to say that Terry Pratchett can still write excellent storylines and he still has a great sense of Humour. However i did notice that some of the characters in this book seemed to be rather odd, Lord Vetinari (you will know ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a Pratchett expert although i've enjoyed a number of his other books. But as a journalist, i was particularly interested to hear that he was writing about a newspaper. As an idea, it's great - I've always thought Ankh-Morpork could do with a newspaper, and Pratchett (as usual) manages to twist some other ...  Read the complete review

A searching analysis of the nature of the press, and the relationship between a free press and the state. When Vetineri is arrested for attempted murder, William de Worde, the editor of the Disc's first, but soon not only, newspaper, sees something is wrong with the whole setup, and dogs the Watch as they attempt to find out what happened. The ...  Read the complete review

The truth is the twenty-fifth book in the Terry Pratchett Discworld Series. The truth takes a look at the development of the Discworld's first tabloid newspaper, with rumours such as the dwarf's knowing how to turn lead into gold. William de Worde becomes the owner of the first daily newspaper, not by design, but by a chance meeting with ...  Read the complete review

Terry Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel "The Truth" is once again based in Ankh-Morpork. The story revolves around William de Worde who accidently ends up as editor of the Discworld's first newspaper, "The Ankh-Morpork Times". A rival newspaper is soon created by the Engravers Guild with obviously phoney headlines - ...  Read the complete review