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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This book was brilliant. It contains great humor! It was one of the funniest books I'd read in a long time. Terry Pratchett portrays 'Death' brilliantly. I liked the whole concept of Death taking over the Hogfather's job and doing his best, even if his best isn't very good. Terry Pratchett's humor is totally different to anything I've ever seen and it's this type of humor that draws me to this book.Characters are excellent and well written. Personally, I would consider it the best Discworld novel.
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Summary: My favorite Pratchett book (so far...)
Review: This story is on one level the very funny story of Death (one of Pratchett's many reoccurring characters) having to fill in for the Hogfather as he tries to make people *believe* in Hogswatch (kind of a Christmas except with, well, um, hogs). On another level it is an exploration of the modern commercialized "Christmas", and the ancient myths from which it sprang. Silly and thoughtful, this book is a classic of fantasy. Though it would help to read "Mort", "Reaper Man" and "Soul Music" first, the book can be read on it's own, though it is funnier if you have the background of at least some of the earlier books.
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Summary: BOOYA!
Review: Excellent. Excellent. This is such a good book, and Terry Pratchett is hilarious. The wow-wow sauce part is excellent, and overall this book is great. Buy it now. Booya.
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Summary: If you haven't got a ha'penny...
Review: I read this back in November and didn't even mind a really long commuter train delay. My neighbors may have, although most of them seemed to smile as I snickered, giggled and guffawed my way through it. When I went home for Christmas, I pressed it on my mother, and, when she complained that her eyes hurt too much for the tiny print, I read parts of it aloud. Fortunately, my mother shares my sense of humor.I think this is the funniest of Pratchett's books. To be sure, someone else can disagree, and that's not a bad thing. Pratchett's eye for the ridiculous is sharp, but he stays reasonably charitable which makes a nice change. Best of all, Pratchett never forgets that a satire works best if it has a story of its own to hang on. That's a point all too often forgotten by people who think they're writing satire. Just because I can't resist, I'll hint at my favorite passage: "IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE." If you haven't already read the book, that's the point where I couldn't stop laughing, and never mind that one lady looked quite ready to summon the security people! Like Gibbon, Pratchett lives a good deal of his life in his footnotes, acerbic enough to appeal to my somewhat jaundiced view of humanity. He thinks a lot of people are idiots, and it's a good thing the world has got so well padded. For some, it could get even better padded... Christmas, even crass and commercialized, is a good thing, and Pratchett remembers that. This book is great.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Can't help wondering what happened to Susan's young man from "Soul Music" though...
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Summary: Hogfather: A Novel of Discworld
Review: Another brilliant book by this author. Having read all of his books (several times)I can't say that any one of them ranks as the out and out best, but this one certainly comes close to being my favourite. Any book featuring DEATH as the Discworld's equivilent to Santa has to be good. His attempts to understand human nature are hilarious, especially when he gets things wrong. Albert is also a favourite character of mine. The scene in the fairy grotto is the best in the book. Definitely a laugh-out-loud book.
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Summary: favorite discworld book as of yet
Review: i have only read three discworld books so far but this one is a current fav, i love the character death and if you do too this book is choke full of him, it is great
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Summary: SQUEAK.
Review: This was the first Discworld book I ever read. It's a great introduction to the series, incorporating Susan Sto-Helit, Death, Nobby, the wizards of Unseen Univsersity, and several extremely interesting gods as well. Most of Terry Pratchett's books seem to center around the nature of belief. I especially like the notion that a god cannot live without belief. (Rather useful in the ridiculous philisophical debates I have with my geeky friends, and the myriad evangelical Christians at school that try to convert me as well.)
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Summary: How does he do it?
Review: After having read 11 Discworld novels (this being my tenth), I can only say that Pratchett is the funniest author I have ever encountered. This is perhaps his best book - Both funny to tears yet grim to the bone. If you have already read Pratchett before, this is a must read. If not, this is an excellent one to start from.
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Summary: Clever as Teatime himself!
Review: Hogfather's my first Discworld book, and I'm not disappointed at all! Pratchett's style is erratic and subtle at the same time, fraught with clever wording and the funniest lines of dialogue. The footnotes are a refreshing bit. Hogfather is a story of belief and imagination, of the dreams and nightmares of childhood. Amazingly deep and philosophical without being boring. The only problem I had with the book is that my Teatime (yes, I've come to think of him as *mine*), the absolutely brilliant - and creepy - villain, wasn't played up enough. He could have been an enduring character! But that excluded, Hogfather is an altogether brilliant work!
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