Diggers (The Truckers Trilogy) [IMPORT] (Paperback)

by Terry Pratchett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New Ed edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552525863
• ISBN-13: 978-0552525862
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,587,862 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impossible to put down!, May 6, 2001

By	Stephanie Noverraz "crooty" (Lausanne, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This the second book of the Bromeliad trilogy (following Truckers and followed by Wings).

After escaping from the doomed Store of Arnold Bros (est. 1905), the nomes find refuge in a disused quarry. And although life's harder Outside than it was in the Store, after a while everything goes well... until they find out that the quarry is going to be reopened.

At the same time, they also learn that Grandson Richard, 39, an heir to the Arnold Bros (est. 1905) fortune, is going to Florida to watch the launch of his first telecom satellite. To Masklin it's an oportunity to send the Thing back into space where it could contact the Ship which will bring them back HOME. And so he sets out, with Gurder and Angalo, on a trip to the airport.

And as the rest of the nomes are waiting for them to come back, their food reserves are inexorably running out and the humans' presence is starting to be a real nuisance. Are they going to flee and hide or are they going to stand up to them?

As expected, Diggers is brilliant and extremely funny. And again, the confrontation between the nomes' and our view of the world is the source of many of the typically "Pratchettian" puns we've all come to love!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The story goes on from Pratchett's "TRUCKERS", July 25, 1999

By A Customer

At the end of "TRUCKERS" by Terry Pratchett. Maskerlin and the gnomes of the doomed supermarket floor boards, escaped into the outside world, with Maskerlin driving a lorry carrying the gnomes. After the famous epic, A new adventure has dawned, The Gnomes from the lost supermarket lead by the heroic Maskerlin, make a new home inside the devastated buildings of a old quarry. The Gnomes begin to face a nightmare reality, as things suddenly happen, as their home has rain fall from the Earth's sky, in ice drops and the humans start causing chaos. But the Gnomes as a band of colonists, are brought toghere to protect their new home from humans in the horizon who have the help of a beast named Jekub. This is the best follow-up to Terry Pratchett's Gnome classic "TRUCKERS".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The lesser of the three., February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Diggers (Hardcover)

While the other two books in the trilogy can be taken half-seriously, this one is 100% comic farce. It's rare I laugh out loud while reading a book, so I didn't find it quite as good as the other two. I'm still rather disgruntled to find out that the entire trilogy is out of print, and only two Amazon.com frequenters have even read the first book, one of which can't even spell.