Gain Access The Last Continent (Discworld, #22) Written And Illustrated By Terry Pratchett File Format Digital Version

is a world and a mirror of worlds, This is not a book about Australia, No, its about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bitAustralian, Stillno worries, right

Keeping the boss away from your work, . .
Ponder knew he should never have let Ridcully look at the invisible writings, Wasnt it a basic principle never to let your employer know what it is you actually do all day

But no matter what precautions you took, sooner or later the boss was bound to come in and poke around and say things like, “Is this where you work, then” and “I thought I sent a memo out about people bringing in potted plants,” and “What dyou call that thing with the keyboard”

Unfortunately, like many people who are instinctively bad at something, the Archchancellor prided himself on how good at it he was.
Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association,

The clever traveler researches his destination before arriving, . .
Death picked up a book at random and read the cover,
DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read, His gaze moved down the spine, VOLUMEc, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.

Don't panic, . .
The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture, When faced with being inadvertently marooned on a desert island they understood immediately that the first thing to do was place the blame,

Spoofs, Tropes, parodies,
Although this story is not about Australia, that is the Australia in our world, it does describe all things Australian that we see in the popular media such as the Sydney Opera House, Mad Max, the man from Snowy River and more.
Have fun spotting them all, The winner gets a chocolate fish,

Enjoy!
"A wizard without a hat was just a sad man with a suspicious taste in clothes, A wizard without a hat wasnt anyone, "



"Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
"



"This is not a book about Australia, No, it's about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit, . . Australian. Still no worries, right"

Discworld's version of Australia, which of course isn't Australia, but also absolutely is Australia, was a delight, New Zealand is close to Australia that I think I got many of the jokes, though probably not all!

"Hed decided to keep a journal in the hope that this might help.
He looked at the recent entries, Probably Tuesday: hot, flies. Dinner: honey ants. Attacked by honey ants. Fell into waterhole. Wednesday, with any luck: hot, flies, Dinner: either bush raisins or kangaroo droppings, Chased by hunters, dont know why, Fell into waterhole. Thursday could be: hot, flies, Dinner: bluetongued lizard. Savaged by bluetongued lizard. Chased by different hunters. Fell off cliff, bounced into tree, pissed on by small grey incontinent teddy bear, landed in a waterhole, Friday: hot, flies. Dinner: some kind of roots which tasted like sick, This saved time. Saturday: hotter than yesterday, extra flies, V. thirsty. Sunday: hot. Delirious with thirst and flies, Nothing but nothing as far as the eye can see, with bushes in it, Decided to die, collapsed, fell down sand dune into waterhole, "



" 'I cant help thinking, though, that we may have, . . tinkered with the past, Archchancellor, said the Senior Wrangler, I dont see how, said Ridcully, After all, the past happened before we got here, Yes, but now were here, weve changed it, Then we changed it before, And that, they felt, pretty well summed it up, It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego, "

I have a soft spot for the wizards and their intelligent stupidity, so that, combined with the setting made it especially enjoyable! Sadly this is up there with Equal Rites for being one of my least favorites in the series so far.
Its mostly good for the firstbut I found the last quarter painfully tedious and was relieved to finish, "You call that a knife" The giant unsheathed one that would be called a sword if it had been held in a normalsized hand, "This is what I call a knife!"

Mad looked at it, Then he reached his hand around behind his back, and it came back holding something,

"Really No worries, This," he said, "is what I call a crossbow, "

I cringed when I saw that this entry in the series was about the wizards, Normally their haughty behavior which reminds me SO MUCH of my motherinlaw's most annoying trait, makes my skin sizzle, but in this goround, they are marooned on a tropical isle.
Being tossed out of their natural habitat The Unseen University they are suddenly vulnerable and insecure, One of them even has even become blushingly smitten by a cleaning lady,

Aaaaa! I liked the wizards!

Here is an excellent adventure in a land of kangaroos, boomerangs, odd brown food paste, and the occasional platypus.
They'll hang you for stealing a sheep, but turn you into a folk hero if you manage to escape, Seriously. They'll even give you a head start, . .

From the Librarian's mysterious shapeshifting malady, to more inflammable cows, to the wizard's interesting attempts to build a boat without a howto manual!, this is one of the better Discworld adventures.


G'day!,/

De mis favoritos de la saga de Rincewind jaja Quick what do you know about Australia

I reckon if you live in Australia, you probably know quite a lot.
If you've known someone from Australia or perhaps have visited there, you might know a few things, If your experience is limited to a few "Crocodile Dundee" movies and the Crocodile Hunter, then you could probably stand to know a little more, No matter what your level of Australiana is, though, you probably know

at least enough to get a lot of enjoyment out of this book, Terry Pratchett's homage to the strangest continent on Earth.


Now keep in mind, Pratchett does state quite clearly that this is not a book about Australia, "It's about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit, . . Australian. " So that's okay then.

Really, this is Pratchett's homage to Australia, a country that he clearly likes a lot, In reality, Australia is a pretty strange place, It's a giant island, most of which is barren desert, It's been disconnected from the other continents for so long that evolution has given us species unlike any others on Earth, Pretty much anything that you come across, from the lowliest spider to the cutest jellyfish to the weirdest platypus, is deadly, The country is a tribute to Nature, both in its beauty and its danger, and really deserves more attention than it gets,

In one memorable scene, Death asks his Library for a complete list of dangerous animals on the continent known as XXXX, aka Fourecks, He is immediately buried under books, including Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita, volumec, part three.
A slight exaggeration Perhaps. He then asks for a complete list of species that are not deadly, and gets a small leaflet on which is written, "Some of the sheep, "

This book isn't about Death, though, as much fun as that may be, This is about the worst wizard on the Disc, The classic inadvertent hero, who had seen so much of the world but only as a blur while he ran from danger, The hero who truly just wants to be left alone, perhaps with a potato Rincewind,

What you most need to know about Rincewind is that he absolutely does not want to be a hero, He craves a boring life, one in which the most he has to worry about is whether to have his potatoes baked, mashed, or deep fried, He does not want to be chased by mad highwaymen, put in prison for sheep theft, or required to completely change the climate of an entire continent, He doesn't want to time travel, be guided by strange, otherworldly kangaroos or fall in with a troupe of suspiciously masculine female performers, He just wants peace and quiet,

The universe, of course, has other ideas, And so it is up to Rincewind to once again save the day, The continent of Fourecks has never seen rain in fact, they think the very idea of water that falls from the sky is ludicrous, But there are legends of what they call The Wet the day when water will be found on the surface of the ground, rather than hundreds of feet below it.
And while they don't know how it will happen exactly, they do know it will happen, Lucky for Rincewind, the universe has chosen him to make sure that it does,

I really can't list all of the Australia references because there are just too many, From drop bears to Vegemite, Mad Max to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, they're pretty much all there,

This book is, like so many other Discworld, books, a lot of fun to read, One of the more interesting sections in the book is one that's not strictly necessary, Exploring a strange window in the University which, for some reason, leads to a beach, the Wizards of the Unseen University find themselves marooned thousands of miles away and thousands of years back in time.
On this weird little island, they meet one of the most unusual gods on the Disc the god of evolution,

This god isn't interested in the normal godly things lolling about and being worshiped, occasionally smiting a few followers here and there, As Pratchett puts it, "It is a general test of the omnipotence of a god that they can see the fall of a tiny bird, But only one god makes notes, and a few adjustments, so that next time it can fall further and faster, " This god of evolution is devoted to making life forms better, often one at a time, and lives on a strange little island where there's only one of everything, but everything yearns to be useful.
With him, the wizards are able to explore evolution and natural selection and figure out why sex is just so darn useful,

I say that this section isn't strictly necessary because it just isn't, It's certainly interesting, and I suppose the god's island is a nice echo of the real Australia, where evolution has had a long time to tinker and come up with some really weird stuff, but in terms of the story, it's not all that important a plot point.
In fact, the wizards in general don't contribute much to the story other than to make it longer and funnier, Their exploration of evolution and Rincewind's unwilling quest to bring rain to the barren land of Fourecks are almost wholly unrelated to each other, up until the very end.


This isn't to say that they're unwelcome I love watching the wizards explore the world, The combination of personalities whenever all the wizards get together is one that offers endless hours of reading fun, and I think that without them, the book would have been less enjoyable.
They're just not essential to the plot, is all, and if that kind of thing is important to you, then you might not enjoy this book so much,

Me, I love science and I love Discworld, While the actual Science of Discworld series was kind of dry and boring in the end, I love it when Pratchett explores realworld science through the eyes of his Discworld characters.
By looking at science from another perspective, he is able to make it perhaps a little more understandable to people who otherwise might write science off as "too hard.
"

This book is a trip through time and space and Australia, It's a long, strange trip, to be sure, but an entertaining one, "Are we all here" said Archancellor Ridcully as he surveyed the assembled wizards, "Good. Now let's get our brainstorming session started, "

"Ook" said the Librarian in an uncertain tone, The Archancellor glared at him, "Come on, come on, shouldn't be difficult! We need to reset parameters, Push the envelope. Think out of the box, "

"What box" asked the Dean timidly, The Archancellor gave him a withering look,

"For those who somehow missed yesterday's briefing session," he continued, enunciating every syllable, "we have been given an unusual opportunity, Our Author," he made a perfunctory sketch of the Holy Sign of Pratchett, "our Author has invited us to help plan his next book, I see it as a witty series of Australiarelated parodies, This is our cue to think synergistically and proactively, exploit our firstmover advantage and "

As he never tired of explaining to the other members of Unseen University, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Wizards had turned Mustrum Ridcully into a new man.
Some people, however, still remembered the old one with a certain wistful nostalgia, But now Ponder Stibbons, the Assistant UnderNerd, unexpectedly raised his hand,

"Please sir"

Ridcully stopped, surprised, "Yes"

"Well sir, I've been thinking about it as well, and I have a few ideas to, er, to toss into the mix, " He cleared his throat. "I've been reading about, you know, evolution," the Professor of Recent Runes looked pointedly at the ceiling "it's, ah, very interesting, and I thought the book could be, you know, a sort of satire on that.
On evolution. Darwin. "

"Thank you very much for your valuable contribution," said Ridcully in a tone that clearly indicated the subject was now closed, "but as I was saying, Australia.
A wealth of comic material for us to exploit, Kangaroos. Mad Max. Sheep shearing. Beer. Cork hats. Amusing synonyms for 'throwing up' "

"No, but really, sir, let me explain!" said Stibbons, "Evolution's funnier than you might think! We can arrive at this island where it all happens much faster, new species evolve in hours rather than millennia, there's a god who's in charge of it all, and, wait sir, here's the punchline, it's a clever reference to J.
B. S. Haldane"

"As. I. Was. Saying. " interrupted Ridcully. "Australia. Bush rangers. Drop bears. Vegemite. And for those among us who believe our target demographic likes biology, a sequence on how the platypus was created, There. No one can say I'm not willing to compromise, "

Stibbons sighed. It was going to be another of those meetings,
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