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2018 books, 27 and 28 by Pratchett
Yes, I'm in a rut. Comfort reading.
27) "Dragons at Crumbling Castle," Terry Pratchett
28) "The Carpet People," Terry Pratchett
"Dragons" includes at least some of the original story that "The Carpet People" was based on, which was serialized in a newspaper in 1965. (The excerpt in the back of "The Carpet People" is probably more like it originally appeared. The version in "Dragons" had added footnotes and who knows what-all other mucking about.) I'm pretty well impressed by the 17 year old Pratchett's story, though of course when it was rebooted with the 40-something Pratchett brain it got MUCH better. Very cool to get to see the evolution through original, somewhat mucked with and totally rewritten. :) There may have been a fourth version as well, when it was released as a book the first time. I love seeing progressions. In the class I had to teach today one of the things we talked about was working from the general to the specific in writing up observations on what people do. It's all very nice to say someone is a team player. How do you support that and make people believe it's true? Specific details. Similarly, "Carpet People" became a much more rich story when people had a backstory, and we discovered more details about them as the story progressed.
27) "Dragons at Crumbling Castle," Terry Pratchett
28) "The Carpet People," Terry Pratchett
"Dragons" includes at least some of the original story that "The Carpet People" was based on, which was serialized in a newspaper in 1965. (The excerpt in the back of "The Carpet People" is probably more like it originally appeared. The version in "Dragons" had added footnotes and who knows what-all other mucking about.) I'm pretty well impressed by the 17 year old Pratchett's story, though of course when it was rebooted with the 40-something Pratchett brain it got MUCH better. Very cool to get to see the evolution through original, somewhat mucked with and totally rewritten. :) There may have been a fourth version as well, when it was released as a book the first time. I love seeing progressions. In the class I had to teach today one of the things we talked about was working from the general to the specific in writing up observations on what people do. It's all very nice to say someone is a team player. How do you support that and make people believe it's true? Specific details. Similarly, "Carpet People" became a much more rich story when people had a backstory, and we discovered more details about them as the story progressed.
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