Pratchett gets better and better with every book in the series. Now you'll be noting my four stars.The reason for the absence of that last star is that even though 'Unseen Academicals' shows more complexity and craft, this is a bit of a throwback book for the series. This is a "Wizards" book and the...
Quite possibly the best Pratchett novel thus far that I have read, if only because, despite my hatred of football, Ankh-Morporkian Wizards plus football equals something completely unmatched by any other humour writer I have encountered. You can have modern football with sci-fi as done by Rankin, or...
I always end up wowed by Discworld books, and this one was no exception. Football hooligans, runway modeling, no less than TWO devoted nerd/jock friendships, and humanizing a dehumanized fantasy species! (Okay, maybe "humanizing" was a poor word choice. Somewhere, Mr. Spock is glaring at me.) Awesom...
Terry Pratchett is possibly my favourite author--and Unseen Academicals just re-inforced why. He uses the Discworld to show the weirdness of our world. He writes with humour embedded in the word choice. His characters leap off the page and into your life. I find myself quoting him! He cares about th...
Oh my gosh! Cannot wait until this one come out. Then I did. Wow. It is about friendship and football. Not as much political power play as some of his other works. But it is enjoyable, and kind of match the underlying feeling and obvious relationship between men and football. Not just about the ball...
Unseen Academicals is the 37th Discworld-novel Terry Pratchett has written, and as with his other Discworld-books, summing up the many intertwining plot strands in a paragraph or two is not an easy feat. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetenari, has decided that the popular excuse for rioting, g...
Fine, but no where near as good as Pratchett usually is. Some plot points never went anywhere, the wizards were far more powerful than usual, Vetinari spent a rather prodigious amount of time talking out loud, and the new characters all felt like retreads of old one. Still, quite funny and with a ...
Unabridged and read by Stephen Briggs. There is a version out with a cover like this:- that has Tony Robinson (Baldrick) reading and I wish I had that one instead!
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