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Summary: Just one of the many fantastic books by Terry Pratchett
Review: Terry Pratchett has as usual put up an excellent performance. I love all his other Discworld Novels, but this one is somehow different. As if Pratchett was thinking about something worrying and laid it down in this book. As always the three witches are brilliant. I especially liked the bit where they had the witch contest, and Nanny Ogg was waving her bag of sweets, so Granny would win. Fantastic. 5 Stars for your excellent work.
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Summary: Magrat gets a spine
Review: It is wonderful to see the delopment of Magrat from being a Wet Hen to being a woman who defends herself, her friends, and her husband to be from the vicious elves. Granny Weatherwax is wonderful as always, and the sub-plot with Ridcully is wonderful.Cassanunda and Nanny are made for each other: "I wants your body, Mrs Ogg" "I'm still using it" That is, for certain, one of the best pick up lines and responses I have seen in a fantasy novel. And Cassanunda's reaction to the Long Man is great.
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Summary: Pratchett's getting darker--and better
Review: Few authors have offered quite as much as Pratchett--he takes on complex concepts, wraps them up in humour, and delivers them via characters like Granny Weatherwax. (And Nanny Ogg--the Hedgehog's Song is one of those underrated literary classics of all time.) Wonderful meeting them again in Lords and Ladies--do yourself a favour, pick this one up even though it's considerably darker, and angrier, than Pratchett's usual stuff. I read Lords and Ladies around the same time I browsed through a short story by David Brin. Brin's story speculated, like Pratchett, that fairies were actually nasty, inhuman creatures--pushing the thesis to its logical conclusion, he postulated that fairies were actually the original aliens. Brin's almost certainly the more rigorous thinker; but Pratchett has a helluva lot more fun.
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Summary: A prime cut of discworld fun.
Review: I started reading discworld novels when I was 13. Four years later this is my favorite disworld novel. Anyone that loves Granny Weatherwax and hates elves will love this book.
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Summary: Pure excellence
Review: While not as abundant in his trademark humour, this time Terry has delivered an excellent story too, that I loved from start to finish. Probably my favourite of all the Discworld novels, it has tons of memorable scenes and the witches are as brilliantly written as ever, remaining his most complex and interesting characters.
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Summary: A classic
Review: The stick and bucket dance has to be one of the funniest passages ever written - I guess you probably need to be english and know what Morris dancing is about to understand it fully. The Ogg family - well words don't do them justice - just wait till you read about Gytha Ogg taking a bath. if you read this book in a public place you will get very odd looks as you will be lughing out loud. Highly recommended from an avid Pratchett fan.
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Summary: The summit of his career
Review: This is the summit of Pratchett's Work, as I see it. His books since have been going a bit on empty steam, and before this he was not stylistically complete. This has a great story, characterisation, and humour. It took until the third or fourth reading to get the more subtle jokes, yet it is also a masterpiece of immediate humour. Multiple-levelled and stylistically perfect.
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Summary: One of my five favorites
Review: Thank you, Terry Pratchett, for reminding us that substance is, in the end, more important than style (although Granny's headology is a bit of both, wouldn't you say?)! To those who disparage this book because they think Mr. Pratchett was being unfair to the Fair Folk, I'd like remind them of a few things: leave the milk out -- or else; don't eat the food, or you'll be stuck there forever; keep an eye on your babies, because they might be taken and changelings left in their place... The list goes on, folks. And I hardly think that the question of whether or not They are our friends was the point of the book, was it? This is one of the most insightful books Pratchett has written. If all women (and men, perhaps)could grow to know what Granny Weatherwax knows about the importance of knowing who and where you are, we would all be a lot better off! Come back to Kansas, Dorothy -- if you can't find it in your own backyard (or even better, make it yourself), you sure as hell won't find it by meddling in things more powerful than you might think -- and that you certainly can't control! As usual, Pratchett has written a cautionary tale that will make you cry with laughter. He gently reminds us of the small truths that help us to find the good in the world, without ever being judgmental. He is a treasure, and we are fortunate to have him.
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Summary: A must buy if you interested in MAGIC
Review: Always wondered if Magrat Garlick was really a wet hen? If so, read Lords and Ladies. It tells you about "them". The Elves. One of Terry Pratchett's best in my opinion. Like the librarian? He is out of the UU's library and enjoying himself. Ever wondered whether Granny Weatherwax had "a past"? If so then I recommend getting Lords and Ladies. Read it!!! You won't regret it!
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Summary: Still his best and this is 1998
Review: I read it when it came out. I loved it. I read it again later on. And recently I read it again and I still think it is my favourite Discworld book. The depiction of elves (a contentious issue from the other reviews) is in the older style as being selfish, manipulative and cruel rather than the Tolkien based depiction of fair, wise and gentle creatures. The elves here are like Rude Mechanicals on Mean-Speed. Actually, if you really want to get an appreciation of this book, (and half the jokes) read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream first. Of course, Granny, Nanny and Magrat are here again as well as Ridcully, the Bursar (who may never recover) and the Librarian, whose adventures outside the safety of Ankh-Morpork make for the sorest abdominals you have had in your life! The book has sex (in the form of Casanunda and NANNY OGG), death (great gobs of it) and well, not rock'n'roll, but elvish singing... which might be worse. It has a new feminist icon, an insight into the geneology of words and a belly laugh a page. UNBEATEN. PS. Go look up what a quark is, if you don't get the joke about up, down, sideways, etc...
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