Raising Steam
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Moosbeere
vor 9 Jahren
Eher eine schwächere Scheibenwelt-Geschichte. Leider konnte sie nicht mit den anderen mithalten.
Originaldibbler
vor 10 Jahren
Ziemlich belang- und humorlos. Leider merkt man mittlerweile sehr, dass Pratchett aufgrund seiner Krankheit nicht mehr so kann wie früher.
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Inhaltsangabe
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it s soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.§§Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . . but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don t always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse . . .§§Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi t flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he s going to stop it all going off the rails . . .§