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Watch the abyss behind the seemingly harmonic fairy tales while Magrat Garlick starts earning her reputation as one of the tightest young witches beside Tiffany Aching. Pratchett uses postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmod... to deconstruct, satirize, and exaggerate many of the stereotypic Leggi tutto

Hilarious. This made me think of the 1988 John Landis film starring Eddie Murphy Coming to America. Not that either story are very much similar at all, except that the most charismatic part of each was the mesmerizing interaction between the characters. Just as Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall (who each Leggi tutto

Best in Witches series so far. I won't bother with review instead here are some of my favorite quotes People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people. Wisdom is one of the few things that look Leggi tutto

Woo-hoo! Witches on a roadtrip! The gals go on an adventure to stop a wedding, and end up learning what a pain in the posterior it is to travel by broomstick. Along the way, they indulge in bananana-flavored cocktails and some riverboat gambling, enjoy the running of the bulls, and hop into some fairy Leggi tutto

Review to follow, soon, honest, I promise 😬 Ok so this is the last book I shall read and review this year, and what a way to end the year ( I shall wax more lyrical about my year in books in my "year in books" ha ha). I first read some Discworld novels back in the early/mid 90s and thoroughly enjoyed Leggi tutto

This is the 3rd adventure with my favourite witches starring a colourful cast of characters such as the here introduced Mrs. Gogol as well as Mr. Casanunda (yes, it is who you fear) in addition to the almost always cheerful Nanny, the always grumpy but ultimately "good" Granny and the always disheve Leggi tutto

Re-read 5/24/18: Second read! And MORE WITCHES. Well, voodoo, too! What happens when stories just INSIST that witches come over and to the other side? What, with all the wolves misunderstanding that they're not men and dwarves trying to steal Nanny Og's shoes and ALL THOSE MAGIC MIRRORS! And in the e Leggi tutto

Oh I forgot how much fun this book was. Traveling with the witches had me laughing nonstop while thinking about how travelers behave and appear to others. And all the things about stories and their desire to happen and end. So good!

This is also one of my favorites in all of Discworld, I think Nanny and Granny are at their height in this book as far as their back-and-forth dialogue. The two play so well off of each other in this one it still tickled me even though this must be my 20th re-read of this particular novel. This book Leggi tutto

That was fun! I really like the witches and I especially like the rather sweet look at women's companionship. I would love to have a Gytha (let's be honest, I'm going to turn into a Granny Weatherwax well before I can achieve Nanny Ogg) in my golden years. Check this out, unless you're super sensitiv Leggi tutto