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Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time. The Bromeliad" was used as the title for the collected trilogy in the US, as well as some UK editions. It refers to the story told by Grimma in Diggers that some species of small frogs live their entire lives inside the flowers of epiphytic bromeliad plants, which is a metaphor used for the Nomes' experience throughout the books. The frogs themselves appear in Wings. The name is also a pun on The Iliad and, according to the Annotated Pratchett File, The Belgariad.

There was a stop-motion animation series that I'd watched as a kid, seeing 4inch nomes inhabit a department store is pretty memorable! So this time it was Nomes. Nomes in a human world that think Arnold Bros (est. 1905) is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

All of that thing how do you call it? Nature, that doesn´t fell natural at all. A satyr of modern culture used to easy life and ignorance of what nature is. When you thing that the plot is going one way, Pratchett surprises you with a plot twist and then again, the final crescendo was so amazing! and after that the other thing that happens wow!

I was a confused at the beginning on what was happening until they finally arrive at the Store, the story got me there with the concept of little people living in it and the kind of lives and culture you can develop with that sort of surroundings.

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That meant they didnt believe there was an outside, that was until another group of nomes arrive at the store. His classic themes are woven into the story, which is actually one big story cut in three. It's about nomes, little people. Not pixies, no. You have nomes on the Outside and nomes n the Store, founded by Arnold Bros. (est. 1905). The latter is a sort of god for the Store nomes. The Store is their world, with the planet and the lights being the sky, the stars, the sun. Seasons are determined by sales periods with their respective slogans. The Store nomes have occupied every department, which works like a nation: own rules, own leader, ... They do have an abbot for the religious position, just like humans have a pope, for example. A fantastic and very funny trilogy, with a satyr of human society and an unexpected plot twist in the first book, the power struggle in the second and the “do the impossible” thing in the third one. It was laugh after laugh. Friendly three books with lots of fun! Pratchett lived with his wife and daughter in Broad Chalke, a village situated west of Salisbury, in Wiltshie. He got married to his wife Lyn in 1968 and their daughter who has followed her father’s footsteps to become an author as well, was born to them in 1967. He wrote and published over fifty books. A number of them have been adopted into television programmes for children. He has also received many accolades due to his great works. For instance, in the year 2008 he was knighted in the loyal 2009 New Years Honours which is a testimony of his influence in the fiction world. The thing tells them that Nomes are from another planet, that they arrived on earth 15,000 years ago, and that they must return home to their planet. Masklin meets Dorcas, an inventor who shows them his inventions and is intrigued by the concept of 'Life beyond The Store'. The Thing intercepts a radio transmission saying The Store will be demolished in three weeks.

Arriving in Florida, the Nomes help themselves to hotel food while Arnold is in the shower. Coming out unexpectedly, he sees Masklin, but they escape into the surrounding Everglades where they discover another group of Nomes led by Shrub (that is her name) and her son Pion. Initially they do not understand each other, but The Thing is able to translate; the new group of Nomes speak authentic Nomish, the original language of the Nomes. Torrit (also known as "Old Torrit"): no longer seen in Diggers, but Masklin mentions his death early in Diggers.Irgendwo zwischen "I liked it" und "I really liked it", aber ich runde mal auf, weil es wirklich amüsant und unterhaltsam war.