What do you get when you mix football, magic, academic rivalry, an orangutan, the world of high (sorry) low fashion, a thumbing of nose (if not outright rasberrying) of Harry Potter, commentary on religion, and a designer named Pepe?Unseen Academicals.Most readers consider the last few Discworld no...
I need more stars! This one was a blast. Hard to say what I loved most about it. I was giggling, chuckling, and laughing out loud most of the time. There's also deep stuff there as usual. I might even sit down and write a real review...just to properly honour Pratchett's latest masterpiece. :-)
Football (soccer to Americans like myself) is all the rage in Ankh-Morpork and Vetinari, the Patrician, has given Unseen University the duty of refining it from a street game to an organized event. Only some people don't want it organized. Can the Unseen Academicals, with Trevor Likely and the mys...
Only Pratchett can make me invest so deeply in characters of surpassing ridiculousness that in the midst of laughing my ass off at them, I suddenly find my eyes filled with tears of pride at the beautiful, noble, courageous absurdity of we human beings in all our silliness. Nobody does it better.
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