My second ever Discworld novel, this one started out strongly with a lot great humour and some great one-liners, but it sort of petered out for me about mid-way. The wizard Drum Billet knows that he will soon die and travels to a place where the eighth son of an eighth son is about to be born, but...
"There are storms that are frankly theatrical, all sheet lightning and metallic thunder rolls. There are storms that are tropical and sultry, and incline to hot winds and fireballs. But this was a storm of the Circle Sea plains, and its main ambition was to hit the ground with as much rain as possib...
Finished this up today. Not quite as riveting as the first two Discworld books, by which I mean that I didn't feel compelled to devour it within hours. It actually took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the reason it didn't seem as funny is because all of the jokes were about sex. Once ...
This book is labeled as the 1st book in the Witches subseries and it did have a slightly different feel from the previous two Discworld books. There was still a good bit of humor, but it seemed far less ridiculous than in the previous two books. Either that, or I’m just immune to the ridiculousnes...
Fun read, not as funny as the previous two Discworld novels, but no less interesting. Hope someday Pratchett interweaves Esk and the Witch novels into Rincewind and Twoflower novels. Don't tell me if you've read the entire series.
Reseña en español de Ritos iguales en el blog: Click aquí.Puedes leer mis otras reseñas de Mundodisco haciendo click en este enlace.Well yeah I broke my rule of rating every Pratchett book with 5 stars BUT this doesn't mean I don't like it, it's only that I didn't enjoy it as much as other Discworld...
Well, that took me a full two hours to read. I think on first read of Discworld, this was the first novel I read. Real review may or may not come tomorrow.
This one just falls a little flat for me. Part of it is the somewhat non-cannon aspect and part of it is just the resolution and wrap-up of the story. I don't recall another example where Pratchett wraps up a couple of main characters' lives in a single paragraph. He usually demonstrates more of an ...
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