I read 80% of the book, for some reason I didn't finish it.It is full of trivia and data, and the bits on "Narrative Reality" and Narrativium are worth their weight in gold, to me. ( )

Basic Reason for Beginning: Discworld-book catch ups, along with this being a present and... Look, I study English. This is subtitled The Globe. Do I really need to go into all the details of why this was on my to-read list?
Basic Reason for Finishing: I admit, I have problems reading academic texts, and the story-chapters weren't long enough to give me decent breaks from this, but I did enjoy reading it and got some interesting, no fascinating, ideas out of this.
Texture: The academic texts we a little... spongy-sticky and the actual story was more... *considers* Something rubber that bounces you back. Like a bouncy castle wall, but less pleasant.

Full review here.

Rereadability: Actually, there are some ideas in this that I'll have to reread since I have a sieve of a brain, but I'd have liked to have seen the story a little more worked out.
Recommendation: If you enjoyed either of the other two Science of Discworld volumes, or don't mind your story/academic text broken up by academic text/story. If you're interested in anthropology or the arts at all. If you're a die-hard Pratchett fan (no, d'oh) ( )

Some heavy science, but interesting. Not the best Pratchett story ( )

The second Science of Discworld book, as the title suggests, narrows its focus. While the first took a lot at the cosmological and astronomical overview, this one changes to a focus on the actual planet, and how it formed and developed. This means in both a discworld sense, and the actual real world science behind our planet, in this simplified form.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/01... ( )

See review of Science of Discworld 1... it only got better.. Looking forward to buying number three. ( )