UNANIMOUS Praise for
CARPE JUGULUM

“Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian
superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy
sire of Discworld ’still ate’nt dead.’”

Publishers Weekly

“Fresh, inventive, and funny…Pratchett has a gift for
the absurd, the comic, the fantastic, and the outrageous. His
world is a combination of slapstick, puns, humorous situations
and outlandish characters. Any new novel by him is
guaranteed…it will make the bestseller list.”

Birmingham Post (U.K.)

“An enduring, endearing presence in comic
literature…Pratchett’s position as a leading
comic novelist now seems as permanently assured
as that of P. G. Wodehouse…. Despite outward
appearances, these cannot really be called fantasy novels, partly because Pratchett is too intent on
undermining all the conventions of the genre and
partly because they mirror so effectively the
current concerns of our own society.”

The Guardian (U.K.)

and
TERRY PRATCHETT

“The funniest parodist working in
the field today, period.”

New York Review of Science Fiction

“If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century,
Terry Pratchett’s would be most of them.”

Elizabeth Peters

“Pratchett…should be recognized as one of the more significant
contemporary English-language satirists.”

Publishers Weekly

“Simply the best humorous writer of the
twentieth century.”

Oxford Times (U.K.)

“A brilliant storyteller with a sense of humor…whose infectious
fun completely engulfs you…The Dickens of the twentieth century.”

Mail on Sunday (U.K.)

“If you are unfamiliar with Pratchett’s unique blend of philosophical
badinage interspersed with slapstick, you are on the
threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity.”

Financial Times (U.K.)

“Pratchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between
one-or two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work
will be read into the next century.”

Locus

“As always he is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He
is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”

Daily Telegraph (U.K.)

“Pratchett is a comic genius.”

The Express (U.K.)

“Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse
and as witty as Waugh.”

The Independent (U.K.)

“Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas
Adams did for science fiction.”

Today (U.K.)

“What makes Terry Pratchett’s fantasies so entertaining is that
their humor depends on the characters first, on the plot second,
rather than the other way around. The story isn’t there simply
to lead from one slapstick pratfall to another pun.
Its humour is genuine and unforced.”

Ottawa Citizen

“Terry Pratchett ought to be locked in a padded cell. And
forced to write a book a month.”

Barbara Michaels

“Terry Pratchett is more than a magician. He is the kindest,
most fascinating teacher you ever had.”

Harlan Ellison

“It is his unexpected insights into human morality that make
the Discworld series stand out.”

Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)

“Quite probably the funniest living author, bar nobody.”

Good Book Guide (England)

“Delightful…Logically illogical as only
Terry Pratchett can write.”

Anne McCaffrey