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33% complete! Heinz Skunk has read 10 of 30 books.
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be …
Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed …
Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed …
Was wäre, wenn man nicht diese eine Entscheidung getroffen hätte, sondern jene andere? Was wäre, hätte man der Erwartung getrotzt?
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Was wäre, wenn man nicht diese eine Entscheidung getroffen hätte, sondern jene andere? Was wäre, …
Jetzt klingen Pädagogen auch schon wie Unternehmensberater. Bei uns in der Klinik sind gerade welche unterwegs. Stecken die Nasen überall rein, Growth Mindset dies, Leadership das. Und alles, was sie zu sagen haben, wusste ich aber schon, nur wusste ich es noch nicht auf Englisch.
— Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne by Saša Stanišić
Was wäre, wenn man nicht diese eine Entscheidung getroffen hätte, sondern jene andere? Was wäre, hätte man der Erwartung getrotzt?
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It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed …
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to …
‘ The diameter divides into the circumference, you know. It ought to be three times. You'd think so, wouldn't you? But does it? No. Three point one four one and lots of other figures. There's no end to the buggers. Do you know how pissed off that makes me?’ ‘I expect it makes you extremely pissed off,’ said Teppic politely. ‘Right. It tells me that the Creator used the wrong kind of circles. It's not even a proper number! I mean, three point five, you could respect. Or three point three. That'd look right.’
— Pyramids. by Terry Pratchett (Discworld -- 7) (Page 269)
Fühle ich viel zu sehr.
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to …
Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
— Pyramids. by Terry Pratchett (Discworld -- 7) (Page 161)
The City of Dreaming Books (original title: Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher) is the fourth novel in the Zamonia series …
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed …
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Maigrat have fairy godmother-dom thrust upon them.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Maigrat have fairy godmother-dom thrust upon them.
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.
— Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #6) (Page 145)
Das sind diese Kleinigkeiten, die beim lesen einfach Freude machen.
In einer Villa am Zürichberg wohnt Alt-Nationalrat Dr. Stotz, umgeben von Porträts einer jungen Frau. Melody war einst seine Verlobte, …
In einer Villa am Zürichberg wohnt Alt-Nationalrat Dr. Stotz, umgeben von Porträts einer jungen Frau. Melody war einst seine Verlobte, …
