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Sir terry pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling discworld series, the first of which, the colour of magic, was published in 1983. Sir terry wrote making money using chapters with short chaptersummaries, which makes a nice change, and his infamous footnotes for me what makes the humour that cutabove. Making money terry pratchett the dark side of the sun the unadulterated cat cartoons by gray jolliffe with stephe. Bent usefulness of clowns as nurses is questioned owlswick gets an angel the golden secret not exactly dragon magic the return of the teeth vetin. Sep 29, 2007 making money by terry pratchett 349pp, doubleday.
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