![]() | This article was nominated for deletion on 25 January 2009. The result of the discussion was keep. |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
Should it be clarified for American readers that the "football" is their (including my) "soccer"? I was confused at first, but then realized that since Terry Pratchett is from England, it's what I would think of as "soccer", not "football". Mollymoon 04:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article also include the American edition's cover as well? 98.19.55.141 (talk) 18:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I personally agree on the american cover(see amazon.com) as it features the football in question, it is a round brown ball with stiches(ie, a mix of football AND soccor) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.28.155.113 (talk) 15:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
There's a bit of confusion over the UK release date. The official release is 8 Oct 09. However, according to this evening's quick phone call, Transworld aims to get it in shops on 1 Oct. About 800 books will be released in the race for the Xmas bestseller, on what some are attempting to dub "Super Thursday.[1] Will try to establish tomorrow if they decided to join the race and what happens with the audio CD.
P.S. Terry's website of choice, PJSM Prints, also lists the 1 October release date. [2] Kimberley Verburg (talk) 19:39, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
What's the current policy on revealing the important points of plots? Specifically, this article states that Mr Nutt is an orc... but a major plot point through the first half of the book is that everyone (including Mr Nutt) thinks he's actually a goblin...? --86.134.133.59 (talk) 22:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Trevor Likely ≈ Pelé? Dr. F no. in point of fact i did not read the book b4 suggesting this as is, i am sure, obvious. i was thinking of the rags to glory quality of Sr. do Nascimento's life. presently in process of reading the book. Dr. F 01:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
But Maradonna does appear as a thinly disguised Geuanan professor Bartarch (talk) 10:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Many of Pratchett's recent Discworld novels had veiled motifs throughout the story. And I'm not sure what the references in this one referred to.
One thing I noticed is that there seemed to be a few references to musicals. I noticed this when Glenda was talking on p. 49 about how Juliet spoke very crassly, and a guard said "My fare, lady" (a reference to 'My Fair Lady'). That made me notice: - The main point of star crossed lovers refers to 'Romeo and Juliet' (which is also the name of the female of this pair), but is also the plot of 'West Side Story', featuring 2 rival gangs. - The aforementioned reference to 'My Fair Lady' - The cook's name is 'Glenda,' name made famous in 'Wizard of Oz'
I didn't notice anything else that shouted out, but was this supposed to be an underlying motif? Since it's based on football, I would have expected at least 1 reference to 'Damn Yankees,' but couldn't find one. Qvamp (talk) 16:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
At the end of the story - Juliet realises she always wanted to ride through the city with the wind in her hair. Must be a reference to "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" Quote lyrics: At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair. Recorded by Marianne Faithful, Dr. Hook and many others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.71.89.15 (talk) 19:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this the only Discworld book in which the character Death does not appear? If so, I think that should be added. --Robinson weijman (talk) 15:47, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure Nutt shouldn't be classified as a savant, he's rather a renaissance man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.166.234.204 (talk) 11:31, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Published in French in 2010 by Atalante as Allez les mages! (ISBN 9782841725212 / ISBN 2-8417-2521-9) - not sure if that's relevant to anything. Schissel | Sound the Note! 09:17, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
This page is a (steam)train wreck and needs to be redone from start to finish Lots42 (talk) 01:22, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to one external link on Unseen Academicals. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add ((cbignore))
after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add ((nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot))
to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 10:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)