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    The Carpet People

    Written by Terry Pratchett

    Narrated by Stephen Briggs

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    The audiobook edition of the hilarious fantasy, co-written by Terry Pratchett, at age seventeen, and Terry Pratchett, at age forty-three

    In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet…

    Now, the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and a new story: the story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet; the story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened. It's a story that will come to a terrible end if someone doesn' t do something about it.

    Includes a PDF of Terry Pratchett's drawings
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9780804168274
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    Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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    • 3/5
      Not one of my favorite TP books. I much prefer the disc world books, especially The Wee Free Men.
    • 3/5
      This is Pratchett's very first book published when he was 17 years old. It sold slowly but it did sell. Twenty years later when he had become famous there was a call for a reprinting and in 1992 he re-read the book and decided it needed some revision before being reprinted. In his author's note at the beginning, he describes the book as being co-authored by his young self and the older man he is now. I've wanted to read this for ages and enjoyed it though it is not exactly a page-turner. I had lots of giggles at Pratchett's signature humour and was entertained by the story even if it fell short. One can definitely see that this book was his spark for greater things in the Bromeliad Trilogy. It features the same kind of gnomish tiny people but here they live in the carpet. There is a whole Empire which is based on the Roman one with two other distinct societies, one which has a King over his small kingdom and the other a nomadic tribe. This is a book for young people and certainly worth reading by Pratchett's fans.
    • 3/5
      This book was Terry Pratchett's first published novel, written when he was 17, and then rewritten in 1992. The people in this story, a tribe called the Munrungs, literally live in a carpet.  Their world is a forest of hairs, they mine dropped coins for metal, used matchsticks for wood, and remove varnish from "achairleg."  Their world is threatened by a natural phenomenon called the Fray, which is most like a vacuum cleaner.After their village is destroyed by the Fray, the Munrungs journey across the carpet under their leader, Glurk.  They encounter other peoples including the Mouls, who worship the Fray, and the Wights, who know the future.  Together they need to work out a solution for mutual survival.  There's a lot of humor here  about monarchy and bureaucracies as well as working in references to ordinary life in our world. 
    • 2/5
      audiobook; fantasy (miniature civilizations living in the carpet)
      as this was mostly written when Pratchett was 17 years old (according to the preface), it's not his best work.
    • 3/5
      The comment below says "very generous!" regarding my three stars.

      OK, I have to admit that's true. Honestly, this is more like a 2.5 - and that mostly because certain things about this book really appealed to me. I'm sure that many kids have, in play, fantasized that their living room carpet was actually a forest, full of who-knows-what adventures and goings-on. Certainly I did, and this book brought me back to that memory in a way that I probably would have forgotten forever if not for reading this.

      I also enjoyed its similarity in feel to 'The Hobbit.'

      However, this does in many ways feel like a first effort. It was initially written when Pratchett was a teenager, and while it's a good idea, both the plot and the execution leave something to be desired. Certainly there are some funny scenes - I really did love the philosopher/shaman Pismire - and some strikingly imaginative bits. But overall, it doesn't cohere as well as it might've.

      The 'author's note' lets us know that Pratchett edited it before re-release. I rather wish he hadn't - I would've been more interested to see the book in its original form, as a historical record of Pratchett's early writing - because edited or no, it's not as good as his later work.

      I received this book through Goodreads' First Reads giveaway. THANK YOU!

    • 3/5
      Lots of fun Pratchettisms and lots of preachy Practchetteering. Apparently this is a rewrite of the original which may have been a good deal funnier.
    • 5/5
      This is the book terry wrote when he was 17, with illustrations and slightly edited. It is a fantastic tale, and certainly one you could read to children.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good. The concept is superb and it's filled with the usual humanistic Pratchett philosophy. Where it falls down is the inconsequential nature of the story.
    • 3/5
      It took me a bit to get into the story, but once I did it was very enjoyable. The story is very creative. Even the violence is presented in a satirical way.

      This was my first Terry Pratchett book. I am looking forward to getting into the Discworld series.

    • 3/5
      Quite liked the revised edition with illustrations by the author. But the Discworld novels will always be my favourites.
    • 3/5
      Diese und weitere Rezensionen findet ihr auf meinem Blog Anima Libri - Buchseele

      „Die Teppichvölker“ ist eins der ganz frühen Werke des Kultautors Terry Pratchett und ich muss sagen, dass man das doch sehr deutlich merkt. Der Roman ist nicht schlecht und auch die Lesung Volker Niederfahrenhorst ist durchaus gelungen, aber im Vergleich zu den späteren Romanen, vor allen denen der „Scheibenwelt“-Serie, ist dieser Roman eben doch deutlich schwächer.

      Die Story ist lustig, die Grundidee hat wirklich viel Potential, das der Autor auch gut ausnutzt, aber man merkt an den Charaktern, dass Terry Pratchett zu diesem frühen Zeitpunkt seiner Laufbahn als Autor einfach noch nicht die Erfahrung hatte, die er in späteren Werken immer wieder unter Beweis stellt. Den Figuren fehlt es an Tiefe und auch wenn sie die entsprechenden Ansätze besitzen, so sind sie doch noch nicht so ausgereift, wie man es vermutlich erwarten würde, wenn man die späteren Werke des Autors kennt.

      Alles in allem ist der Hörbuchdownload zu Terry Pratchetts „Die Teppichvölker“ für Fans des Kultautors sicherlich sehr interessant, denn Volker Niederfahrenhorsts Lesung ist wirklich gut gemacht, die Geschichte ist auch inhaltlich sehr gut, konnte mich aber stilistisch leider einfach nicht vollends überzeugen, auch mit dem Gedanken im Hinterkopf, dass es sich um ein sehr frühes Werk handelt.
    • 4/5
      Not as polished as the Discworld novels, but still charming and creative. I found it slow going at first, partly because there's a strange mix of the familiar (little people in a small corner of our universe) and the unfamiliar (names like Munrung and snargs and Deftmenes). But the plot gets moving pretty quickly, and I enjoyed the humorous wordplay and the quirky characters. Included in this edition are some of Pratchett's drawings, which are funny if not the best in terms of illustrations, and the text of some newspaper columns in which he first started to work out the Carpet People. It would've been interesting to have at least an excerpt of the original version of this story, as Pratchett revisited and revised the book he produced at age 17, but that's just me the completist being greedy.
    • 5/5
      This was a strange book. I have heard many things about Terry Pratchett but I think because of all his works it has always seemed a bit daunting to start reading his stuff... this book just happened to sit in the Middle Grade genre and so I figured...hey why not give this one a chance...?And I did and I am very glad that I did, however it was a very strange book. The Carpet people is now in its newest edition, but what that also means is that there were changes. Luckily Mr. Pratchett lets you know this with the introduction on the audiobook. The listener learns that it is not only a new edition but the first publishing was a long time ago, and the book was written a long time ago by Terry's teenage self, and his adult self has now tweaked the plot after many years being a successful writer.My first thought upon hearing this was: well what are the differences? I may need to track down an earlier edition now because this edition was great!So the plot is about a group of people, the Carpet people; the Carpet is where they live in between the hairs (like your living room carpet...or maybe if you think of this in the terms of Whos -- the Horton Hears kind...) but the Carpet is their Earth so to speak. We meet a few different tribes and learn how they come together to defeat a bigger enemy and the terrifying Fray, which is moving through their lands causing destruction and chaos.The characters are fun and light most of the time, their battles and accomplishments highlighted; and it was imaginative and an epic fantasy world or swords, beasts, and threats abound.The audiobook was 5 discs long, so much shorter than most that I listen to, and it seemed to start and keep running, I did not want to stop listening, but I also don't want to tell you too much for fear of spoiling it for anyone new to the tale.The last few tracks of the audiobook include some of the original weekly stories of the Carpet People and are fun shorts that show how that world was created a long time ago.I think adults and children would be thoroughly entertained by this book, whether it is in the car or reading a paper copy -- that one even has pictures! The CDs also come with a PDF (which I have not viewed yet, and I cannot wait to compare my mental images of the characters and tribe with how Mr. Pratchett illustrated them).
    • 5/5
      This was simply a delightful book! I adored it immensely.. The imagination was beautifully extreme and yet believable. Several times while reading it, I wanted to get a magnifying glass and look down deep in my carpet for a whole little civilization; and maybe even leave a penny so they have metal. The voice of this exceptional book is clever, humorous and astounding. This story has everything one needs to slip away into the fantasy of another world, much like Alice In Wonderland. There is the good, evil and the ones in between. I truly wished the story had gone on.I received this via member give aways from goodreads and was certainly pleased to have been given the opportunity to read this delightful book and be introduced to a world of the carpet..
    • 3/5
      The people who live in the carpet fibers are solitary and isolated. But when a strange evil drives them out of their native swatch, they must band together, putting aside their differences to fight off a common enemy. A charming story of adventure and nation building.
    • 3/5
      Since I couldn't find any two people who agreed on the order in which to read Discworld, I'm going for the approach of reading Pratchett in published order. Hence my first Pratchett wasn't to be Discworld at all.The Carpet People is good fun. Nothing more, but also nothing less. When buying the book I was surprised at the 4+ star average review on Amazon. It's his first book… can it really be that good? Well, no. But it really isn't bad either. The story is a little not-in-the-good-way chaotic, and feels like it isn't quite sure where it's going.But hey, it's a quick read, it's very charming, and it's good fun. That's what I expected and that's what I got. I'm looking forward to continuing reading Pratchett's stuff. This was a very promising start.
    • 3/5
      Originally penned by Pratchett when he was 17, he re-worked the story and re-released the book again at 43. While not one of Pratchett's all-time bests, it is one of his earliest works, and quite a worthy effort. The story follows the various peoples and things that dwell amongst the carpet fibers in a fresh look at the traditional fantasy novel.