Reviews for The truth

The average rating for The truth based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-07 00:00:00 Michael Dawson Special edition, the satire of newspapers and news flashes is closer to the truth than real life media and information networks´blurred self perception. So guess what happens when the first free press, immediately followed by the invention of printing, starts writing about what really happens in Ank Morpork. Soon, the information landscape changes forever and Vetinari, other interest groups, competitors, and an intrigue in the background culminate in an epic battle for the hottest headline before deadline. I deem this novel as one of the best media satires ever written, because it describes the painful state of affairs from each perspective. The dumb consumers of the media, people wanting to be mentioned, the influence of the industry, incompetence of politicians, triviality and redundancy of daily news and meaningless daily politics, and the underlying questions who chooses the tone, contents, and subliminal messages of the news and why people are so keen in investing years of their lives in wasting it with worthless, trivial, dumbing down garbage making one a so called well informed citizen. Ask George Carlin. The unconscious self satirizing potential is best shown by the pressure to find something to tell, the first reporters not sure about what´s worth telling, still asking questions such as what´s really important and serious or how they can be sure if it´s true, how sweet. But soon the childhood diseases are over and trivia and irrelevances are produced in mass just as in real life, where the only change is technological, while the humanities are stagnating and degenerating with the always same wars, hate, greed, injustice, and destruction with a system cemented as fake democracy. Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip reminded me of two characters, pairs too if I remember it right, from one of Gaiman´s novels and one of Tad William´s series, Otherland, who had the same potential to greatly entertain. Such a marvelous duo of lunatic evil guys, no matter in which novel, evil is just too sexy. Maybe, if you haven´t already chosen wisely and stopped consuming worthless news, this novel may give you the inspiration to think about why you should be willingly consuming any kind of left, right, economic, faith, etc. propaganda, when real hard facts, science, and the best worlds of all, fiction, can give joy and happiness. I´ve already posted this in my review of Woodward´s book Rage, but I deem it worth mentioning, because it´s the hilarious real madness regarding the news: Social evolution has stagnated and lead to a dead, ridiculous democratic system, completely controlled by lobbyism, not to be taken seriously anymore, leading to a situation where comedy shows and websites such as The daily show with Trevor Noah The onion The late show with Stephen Colbert etc. bring more depth, insight, and truth than all information and education in schools, newspapers, news networks, and, lol, the representatives and their official channels themselves. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: This one is added to all Pratchettian reviews: The idea of the dissected motifs rocks, highlighting the main real world inspirational elements of fiction and satire is something usually done with so called higher literature, but a much more interesting field in readable literature, as it offers the joy of reading, subtle criticism, and feeling smart all together.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-09 00:00:00 Brandon BarnettDoolittle I think I've only read this Pratchett novel once before, and on the re-read, I enjoyed it more than I expected to. Don't get me wrong. The worst Terry Pratchett novel is still wonderfully enjoyable. And while I don't think this one is *the* best, it's *among* the best. Definitely on his A list. As a bonus, I think this book would be more accessible to new readers, as most of the main characters are new, and the older characters are mostly there for support. As I re-read all the Discworld novels, one of the things that I appreciate more and more is their optimism. After reading one of his books I get the feeling that the world is a good place. There may be good people and bad people, but if you're one of the good folks, things will work out okay if you do your best and catch a little good luck. I need to feel that way sometimes.