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November 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Guards! Guards! – 4/5 One of the best titles for a book, and it reminds me a lot of the following old Onion article: So I also feel like many many many people already know this book pretty well. I am not the biggest Discworld fan (I generally like irreverence, but not whimsy and I am not actually a huge British comedy fan, especially where the jokes are built on maximalism), but I did enjoy this one. The book focuses primarily on the city’s defenses, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Blaise Pascal, dan simmons, James Shapiro, Terry Pratchett

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:659 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Blaise Pascal, dan simmons, James Shapiro, Terry Pratchett ·
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