Attention Terry Pratchett Fans!: A New Discworld Reading Guide

Hello, all - I am back from a weekend away from the blogosphere with some good news for the Terry Pratchett fans out there. A while back, I wrote a review of Making Money, and noted a thorough reading guide for the Discworld novels. Well, the creator of that Discworld Reading Guide, Krzysztof Kietzman, has come out with a new version of the guide for 2012 - version 2.1. You can download it here. Go check it out, as well as its cool hosting site, Discworld Fanatics.

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