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Nation
by Terry Pratchett
by Terry Pratchett
Natalie's review
bookshelves: australia-oceania, seagoing-fiction, speculative-fiction
Mar 25, 11
bookshelves: australia-oceania, seagoing-fiction, speculative-fiction
Read from March 15 to 25, 2011
In the aftermath of a tsunami, an island nation rebuilds itself on the shoulders of a single native boy and a shipwrecked English girl.
The language about discovering ideas and the inter-relationship between science and history, between knowing and wondering, behind invention and self-reliance is marvelous.
Terry Pratchett's perspective about people recovering from disaster is thoughtful:
"The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then . . ."
His character Mau's pondering on how to lead a people out of disaster is even more wonderful: "A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving. "
The language about discovering ideas and the inter-relationship between science and history, between knowing and wondering, behind invention and self-reliance is marvelous.
Terry Pratchett's perspective about people recovering from disaster is thoughtful:
"The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then . . ."
His character Mau's pondering on how to lead a people out of disaster is even more wonderful: "A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving. "
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Quotes Natalie Liked
“Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation
― Terry Pratchett, Nation
“The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation
― Terry Pratchett, Nation
Reading Progress
| 03/15/2011 | page 35 |
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10.0% | "the memory of yesterday screamed all the time behind a door in his head." |
| 03/16/2011 | page 77 |
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21.0% | "It turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked." |
