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It involves Dwarf fashion, street gangs and hooliganism, inter-university and club rivalry, and tyrannical and inter-racial politics. Unseen Academicals (the name of the University football team) basically revolves around the night time staff of the university - the mysterious Mr Nutt, Trev Likely (Nutt's colleague and son of football legend Dave Likely), Glenda (the level headed, cook extraordinaire) and Juliet (Glenda's airhead assistant blessed with glamourous good looks) - as they each come of age. There is often no main plot as such, but rather a clutch of subplots that interweave in and out of each other binding to create a whole and tightening to a climax. Trying to summarise a Pratchett book is never easy. Both though are destined to come into each other's orbit as football, modernism, class, racism and celebrity are parodied through the lens of Terry Pratchett's satirical eye. Though seemingly unrelated, two events have occurred in the city of Ankh-Morpork - an ancient football trophy is discovered in the Royal Art Museum and Mr Nutt who seemingly has no past, nor any memory of it, has started to work in the Unseen University as a candle dribbler. On being asked for the price of the trick, the assistant replies “We make no charge for glass balls. Gip goes to take the ball from the assistant’s hand, only to be told that it is already in his pocket. After a moment’s reflection the assistant draws a glass ball from his head, asking if that is the type of thing they are looking for. The narrator says that he wants to buy some simple tricks for his son. The boy’s fascination with the tricks on display leads the father and son to enter the shop, where they are met by a strange-looking assistant with one ear larger than the other. While walking down Regent Street in London with his father, Gip is drawn to the window of a magic shop. The story is narrated by the father of a young boy named Gip, and tells of their visit to a shop selling disturbingly realistic magical illusions. (1903) and The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Collection of 33 short stories by H. in 1903 it was subsequently reprinted in Twelve Stories and a Dream Collection of 13 short stories by H. Wells (1866–1946), first published in The Strand Magazine Monthly publication founded by George Newnes, published 1891–1950, credited with introducing the short story to a British audience. “The Magic Shop” is a short story by the English author H. Just when it seems he might be genuine in his friendship, tragedy strikes, threatening everything Kate has worked so hard to gain. Kate finally decides to trust Henry’s intentions, opening her heart to him. What else would the gorgeous, popular boy from her past want with her? Kate can’t figure out what game Henry is playing with her - for surely it is a game. He returns to find the bright, funny, outgoing girl he had known now timidly hiding in corners, barely speaking to anyone around her, suspicious of even him. Henry Jamison moved away six years earlier, just as he and Kate had begun an to develop feelings for one another. Her refusal to stand up for herself makes her the recipient of her classmates taunts and bullying. At school, her second-hand clothing marks her as a target. 17-year-old Kate has lived her whole life in abject poverty, with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother, who severely abuses Kate. Narratives AuthorĪfter suffering humiliation and bullying, three high-school girls plan to commit suicide by following a Japanese guide on the internet.Ī man comes into a veterinarian clinic late at night, holding a battered and tortured cat in his arms. Palahniuk then selected and edited 20 of these for publication in the collection. 72 stories were submitted to the fan-made Palahniuk website "The Cult," and then put through a vetting process. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive fiction stories written by multiple authors, edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer. I would find this book much more interesting if it spent more time on those areas. I'm really, really interested in the exploration and alien life aspects. Some of the threads that are becoming clear are either not interesting to me at all (a romance! but no, they can't be together under these circumstances!) or are completely unappealing (a religious zealot who will mess things up at the 11th hour but the day will be saved by the aforementioned romantic couple who will get together after saving the day!). There are so many characters and the point of view keeps switching between them that it's a bit dizzying at times. I'm currently about halfway through, and will do my best to finish it. I'm slowly working my way through this book but am having trouble staying interested long enough to keep reading it. This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.I won this book through Member Giveaways. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity-and own who they really are. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past-and about the future of her people. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities-and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one-the historian. 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