The science of Discworld II : the Globe (original 2002; edition 2002)

A helpful book explaining art in human development ( )

I have a catagory here on library thing, which is the opposite of my library, which is called "read but not owned" these are books that Have passed trough my hands but I have not actually aquired, Many of these are listed in seperate catagoties to show where I borrowed them from, but most importantly I have read them cover to cover. this book is the exception to that rule. It has been several years since I last had to admit that I have not actually managed to complete a book.
There is a bit of a story - some of which assumes that you have read a precious book (which I had not). This story appeared to consist of a couple of paragraophs interspered amound musings on the functioning of the Disc world, history of this world and some other frankly bazar theories.
As normal the wizards of the disc world are interfearing, this time it is with our world (this is apparently contained in a paperweight or something and might just have been created by them in the previous book.
The two parts of this book simply did not melt for me, I would just be getting into the story line when it would transform in to a discussion on the definition of science and who in history was a scientist, (even though the word scientist is quite a new one)bang the plot flies from my head as this topic begins to interest me. When the story continues, I have forgotten what was happening, and would like more information on the subject they were discussing.
It feels like badly written psudo science (though the science is actually disc world science not this world, I think)mixed with bady executed narrative.
I will not be seeing out any more of these ( )

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. ( )

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/science-of-discworld-ii-terry-pratchett.ht... ( )