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U samoj radnji Pratchett je uspio ismijati današnjicu jer Tuljci, dakako skraćeno od Patuljci, žive u Robnoj kući, a jedno od čudovišta kojeg se boje je nikad viđeno čudovište koje ljudi zovu Rezač cijena, a vrhovnim Božanstvom smatraju naziv Robne kuće Arnold Bross (osn. 1905)). Od te današnjice do razmišljanja o nastanku svijeta, plemena, pojave religije ili naših poimanja vanzemaljaca, ljubav, emocije i akcija vas vode kroz sve tri knjige brzinom crtanog filma. Pratchett als Name ist ja wohl überall bekannt, von den Nomen hatte ich dagegen noch nicht gehört. Das Buch war für mich in einem Überraschungspaket (und ist wohl auf deutsch sonst nur noch schwer erhältlich), sonst wäre ich nicht darauf gestoßen, denn irgendwie ist Pratchett ja gleich Scheibenwelt und das war's. Ich fand es wie schon geschrieben sehr amüsant zu lesen und konnte mit dem Humor mehr anfangen als bei einigen Scheibenwelt-Romanen, mit denen ich mich teilweise schwer getan habe. So this time it was Nomes. Nomes in a human world that think Arnold Bros (est. 1905) is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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. The nomes are the intelligent people here, though some of them have their suspicions about the humans, who may sound weird and mooing but look disturbingly similiar to themselves - only so much bigger.For thousands of years, nomes have lived on Earth, hiding in the walls and floors, the bushes and scrub brush. Their sense of time is much faster than humans who are slow and clumsy to them (and very big), and speak like records on the wrong speed (though one would think that nomes sound like records on too high a speed for the human ear). Thousands of nomes have lived in The Store, Arnold Bros. (est. 1905). They have food and clothing, books (though few nomes can read), central air and heat, and even religion. The nomes in The Store never go Outside. They no longer believe that an Outside even exists, just Arnold Bros. (est. 1905), who built The Store for them. The Store nomes don’t believe what is so readily apparent to the reader: they live in a microcosm. The book is about a bunch of gnomes. They are very literal and live in the walls of a store. They've been around since humans have even though they never show themselves to humans. A group of gnomes shakes things up when they arrive from the outside (a place no one thought existed). The inside gnomes worship the store maker as their God and they try to follow all the signs in the store like "everything must go." The outside gnomes try to be patient with the inside gnomes funny ways and whimpy attitudes. The characters are wonderfully intricate and the plots are almost silly yet still intriguing. I read all three books in a week. Lección aprendida, no vuelvas a juzgar un libro por la caratula pueda ser que en su interior encuentres un mundo donde te gustaría ir a pasar una temporada de tu vida. Angalo De Haberdasheri – store nome obsessed with the 'Outside', who welcomes the Outsiders on their arrival in the store.

Llevaba mucho tiempo sin sentarme a leer fantasía, literalmente el último libro de este género que había caído en mis manos era “El Hobbit” de JRR Tolkien y eso fue hace por lo menos cinco años y me parece extraño porque para ser una persona que ama las películas de fantasía y que lee casi con obsesión novelas de aventuras como las de Verne, Salgari y Stevenson estar tanto tiempo alejada de este tipo de literatura es un poco raro. Tuvo que pasar una desgracia que me llevo a Bogotá donde termine refugiada en la casa de un buen amigo, quien un poco para subirme el ánimo y un poco para presumirme sus gustos literarios me hablo de Sir Terry Pratchett me dijo que es un escritor inglés que no me podía perder de leer y que me fijara que cuando aparecieran palabras en mayúscula es la muerte que hablaba (mi amigo no había leído los libros de los que hablo ahora y no sabía que ese personaje pertenece a la Serie de “Mundo Disco” y en esta en particular no existe como tal) al principio debo decir tome los libros con un poco de desconfianza, son tres tomos chicos de unas 200 páginas más o menos cada uno y que se llaman en su orden “Camioneros”, “Cavadores” y “La Nave”, la verdad por sus nombres no parecían muy prometedores pero me dio por escudriñar un poco y entendí que había juzgado el contenido de mala manera. 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. 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. Ejected from the Duke's presence, the Outsiders wander the underfloor corridors until 'The Thing' is accidentally dropped next to an electrical cable, where it starts to recharge itself. 'The Thing' then powers up and identifies itself as the navigational computer of the Galactic Survey Starship 'Swan'; the ship developed an engine fault many thousands of years ago, and marooned its Nome crew on Earth. When it asks its primary mission, Masklin tells it to keep the Nomes safe and get them home.This was quite an early effort by Sir Terry and he definitely improved with age. Even so, there's enough magic (of the literary kind) here to mean I don't count the money wasted. I don’t know enough words, he thought. Some things you can’t think unless you know the right words.”