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The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers - Diggers - Wings (original: 1989; edição: 1998)

de Terry Pratchett

Séries: The Bromeliad (Omnibus)

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After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing.
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Título:The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers - Diggers - Wings
Autores:Terry Pratchett
Informação:Doubleday & Co Inc. (1998), Edition: First UK Edition First Impression, Hardcover, 519 pages
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The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings de Terry Pratchett (1989)

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Well, f*** this. I had written a lengthy review, but clicked outside the box and *poof*, gone! All for nothing.

Every book is a page-turner, reads very fluently and certainly wasn't written for children. Well, maybe, but I doubt they fully understand Pratchett's humour, his take on life, religion vs science, politics, equal rights, migration, and more.

His classic themes are woven into the story, which is actually one big story cut in three. It's about nomes, little people. Not pixies, no. You have nomes on the Outside and nomes n the Store, founded by Arnold Bros. (est. 1905). The latter is a sort of god for the Store nomes. The Store is their world, with the planet and the lights being the sky, the stars, the sun. Seasons are determined by sales periods with their respective slogans. The Store nomes have occupied every department, which works like a nation: own rules, own leader, ... They do have an abbot for the religious position, just like humans have a pope, for example.

Store nomes have never seen the sun, never felt the rain. The Outside nomes are very much accustomed to the real seasons and weather types.

Women have no rights, aren't even allowed to learn to read, as this could overheat their brains. In contrast, the Floridians (nomes of Florida, also the name of some fruit juice, apparently) are lead by a female. Contrast in male-female domination and rights.

One day, a large group of Outside nomes come into the Store to join their Inside fellows, whom they've never met, by the way. And so the adventure begins: where will they stay? Who will guide and educate them into the world of the Store? Another theme: migration. In this day and age, even more actual than ever, even if the books were written about 30 years ago. As the Store is to close forever, suddenly both nome populations must work together for their survival.

What can you expect? Pure entertainment. Playing with the English language (signs, slogans, names, products, ... everything is taken literally or twisted around). Space-travel. More respect for little people. A more humanistic view on life. A lighter Pratchett, when it comes to convictions. To me, it's much later that he became more determined in his "beliefs".

Anyway, in short: The Bromeliad is one of Pratchett's finest works. If you can, get the omnibus, otherwise get the three books (Truckers, Diggers, Wings) themselves.

In the same vein, I can recommend his other book on little people: [b:The Carpet People|97361|The Carpet People|Terry Pratchett|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344619032s/97361.jpg|583699], as you can read here.

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Some details about the books, including spoilers:
The first book, also as the cover shows, has something to do with trucks. Nomes have to leave the Store, as it will be demolished. Everything Must Go, a sign taken literally, even if it means something else. But nomes have a way of taking things literally. Or rather, Pratchett has shown how skilled he was in the English language. Playing with words - be them signs, slogans, names, places, ... - is one very important ingredient in this series.

Religion is key here: To the Store nomes and especially their leaders and abbot, there is no Outside, only the Store is what matters and is real, is divine.

So, yes, trucks. Nomes become truckers, as they see no alternative but to "borrow" a truck to leave the Store, when news comes that the Store will be closed forever. How they manage it? Through collaboration and coordination, and a lot of trial and error. But that's nomes for you.

The second book deals with the nomes having arrived at a quarry with some shed nearby, where they can hide/store the books and food they brought along. Not long afterwards, humans re-opn the quarry. But luckily there's Jekub, a digging machine, to come to the rescue and with which, after a fierce battle, our nomes manage to flee. Meanwhile, Masklin, Gurder and Angalo are at the airport for Grandson, 39, whom they've seen in a newspaper article, regarding the launching of a new satellite by the corporation that also owns Arnold Bros. (est. 1905). As there's no real leader with Masklin and co. being gone, one of the more religious Store nomes fills that void: Nisodemus. But not for long, as our nomes have to fight and flee for their lives.

The Outside nomes and more precisely Masklin, had a black box called Thing. Thing can send out signals, communicate with other computers and devices, and can translate nomish into human and vice versa. Nomes have always avoided humans, for fear of being turned into pixies or maybe even lose their lives, although the Outside nomes were more afraid of being eaten by wolves and alike.

The third book, 'Wings', focuses on the contact with space - Thing said the nomes were once dropped on Earth by a spaceship and he was going to call upon the ship to bring the nomes hme again, hence the 3 aforementioned nomes needing to be at the launch of the satellite. It's also in this book that human contact (with especially Grandson, 39) is established. Not for long, as a ship was summoned and driven/flown by Angalo (who loves driving machines).

Gurder, a Store nome, had to review his belief, his worldview, now that he had spent a considerable amount of time Outside and had seen Grandson, 39, a "deity" until then. And would you know? There were not only more nomes out there - Floridians -, but Grandson, 39, had always wanted to believe nomes existed and now saw his belief confirmed. The belief was thus reciprocal. Isn't this sweet? Gurder now saw it as his new life-goal to inform the remaining nomes of the world - not everyone could be rescued by the spaceship, basically only the two populations of the books: the Outside nomes and the Store nomes - how to live among humans.

Oh yes, the bromeliad itself, the flower that holds water and is home to a certain frog species... it survives till the end, is even used as a metaphor about life.
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  TechThing | Jan 22, 2021 |
The Bromeliad consists in three novels: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings.

Truckers

Nomes marooned on earth for over 15000 years are on the move. Actually, at first it’s just a few starving nomes. Led by their last hunter, Masklin, they escape the barren wastes adjacent to a motorway service station by hitching a ride in the back of a truck. A truck! Yes, it’s daring in the extreme but the extreme is generally rather motivating. They’ve got nothing but their wits and The Thing, a revered object of ancient wisdom and lore which hasn’t said anything in generations. Still, if The Thing is all you’ve got, at least you’ve got something. Fortunately for these nomes the empty lorry they have stowed away on is headed for The Store. And The Store has All Things Under One Roof. And much to Masklin’s surprise, The Store is also filled with nomes, thousands of them.

As Masklin and his kin negotiate their introduction into a much larger nomish culture, their treasured object of ancient wisdom and lore finds what it has been waiting for thousands of years — electricity. It turns out that The Thing is actually the navigational computer of a galactic starship. And one of first things that The Thing lets the nomes know is that The Store is slated for destruction. It’s time they were on the move, again. All of them.

It’s a whirlwind of adventure. But then, nomes are very small and consequently live very fast. So maybe it’s just a whirlwind from the perspective of a lumbering, slow human. Nevertheless, Pratchett’s writing embodies that dramatic admonition: pace, pace, pace. You’ll barely find time to catch your breath. Pratchett builds worlds and demolishes them with wit and wisecracks faster than, well, a nome.

Perfectly delightful.

Diggers

Oh that tricky second novel. Always a cross between treading water and merely serving as the transition to the third, concluding, novel of the trilogy. Plus, there is that temptation to introduce a superfluous image, such as a bromeliad — a tropical flower that lives its life high in the upper branches of trees in the rainforest, which is thumpingly presented only to set up a pay-off at the end (and latterly to give the trilogy its title).

The nomes that escaped the destruction of The Store are camped out in a quarry. Life isn’t as easy as it was when the pickings were rich, but they are getting by. Sort of. But time moves fast for nomes and already they are forgetting their real objective — to go home. Fortunately, Masklin has not forgotten and he knows, with the help of The Thing, that the nearby airport is where he and it need to be. Thus, early in this novel, Masklin and a picked crew set out on a quest and are not seen again. At least in this novel.
In the absence of Masklin, Dorcas, the wise engineer who figured out how to drive the truck that helped them escape The Store, is technically in charge. But he’d rather spend his time on his own pet project. Which leaves Grimma to keep the nomes together in anticipation of Masklin’s return. It won’t be easy. Food supplies are dwindling, and soon they learn that the quarry will be re-opening for ongoing roadworks. Humans will be coming and there aren’t a lot of places to hide in a quarry. It may be time to be on the move again.

Adventures ensue.

Perhaps not as focused or delightful as its predecessor, Diggers nonetheless is filled with Pratchett’s characteristic charm and wit. And it also has the virtue of brevity. Almost as though it knows from the outset that there is more to come.

Wings

Meanwhile, back with Masklin and The Thing… This final volume of the trilogy catches us up with how Masklin got from a trip to the airport to arriving back at the quarry in a spaceship with a bromeliad. It involves some fast travel so you need to hang on.

Once Masklin, Gurder, and Angalo arrive at the airport, The Thing is able to interact with the wealth of computers there to determine where their quarry is located (yes, I noticed the two meanings of quarry — it’s a Pratchett kind of joke). Grandson, 39, is located in the waiting lounge for the Concorde flight to Florida. So naturally Masklin and his pals decide to stow away on that flight. Which brings them at great speed to where the space shuttle will soon be launched that carries the communications satellite that Grandson, 39, owns. (Just go with it.) If Masklin can just get The Thing close enough to that shuttle, it will be able to commandeer the satellite’s primitive computer in order to use it to contact the nomes’ ship.

Complications ensue. Naturally.

But before the end, we get one of those remarkable turnabouts that happen so frequently in a Pratchett novel that you’d start to believe he is doing it on purpose. And so that superfluous image of the bromeliad becomes, well, rather more meaningful, and not just for the nomes.

It’s a fitting end, though as ever with Pratchett novels, it positively calls out for a further sequel. Those are just the kinds of stories he tells.

Recommended, inevitably. ( )
1 vote RandyMetcalfe | Jan 10, 2020 |
Thought this would take a while to read but took two days each for the first two books and read the last one in a day!

Think I started reading Truckers before but aside from the quotes from The Book of Nome it all felt new.

Very, very funny, lots of good quotes. Couldn't help but laugh out loud at bits of it.

Terry Pratchett did a great job of creating the world of the Nomes.

Have convinced my husband to give it a go in the future. ( )
  ClicksClan | Dec 13, 2014 |
Simply wonderful. Part philosophy, part social science, part religious fable--and all that without losing its clever sense of humor, its human heart, or its pacing as an adventure. Along with Harry Potter, this is surely one of the very best children's series for adult readers. ( )
  TheBentley | May 9, 2014 |
Of all of Pratchett's work, these are the ones that would translate best into film format, I feel. My fantasy is that Andrew Stanton of Pixar would do the trilogy, in three films. There is so much in these books about tolerance, acceptance, struggling against overwhelming odds, and even love (ack!) that kids today really need to hear. And frankly, the ending was absolutely pitch perfect. ( )
  bradgers | Feb 6, 2014 |
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