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May 5th 2005
(first published 2004)
by Corgi
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Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
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055255264X
(isbn13: 9780552552646)
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Tiffany Aching, a hag from a long line of hags, is trying out her witchy talents again as she is plunged into yet another adventure when she leaves ho...more
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Freakin' Terry Pratchett rules. What in the world have i been doing with all my life? I have so many books to read! However i sit inspired by the bravery of Rob Anybody and, therefore, i shall fling myself head first with no helmet...one fearsome book at a time. A Hatful of Sky is a follow up to The Wee Free Men. It picks up just where the other left off and continues Terry's incredibly witty fantasy which clearly stand a bar above other fanatsy.
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Read in January, 2006
This is technically a young adult book (and yes, I do read grown-up books, I just went on a bit of a YA tear after my Powell’s extravaganza), but the only reason for so labeling it is that the main character is a teenager. It is hard to explain how great this book is if you haven’t read any Pratchett, but, then again, why haven’t you read any Pratchett? His books about the Discworld started out a pun-filled parodies of fantasy novels, and have evolved into satires on our modern world that ...more
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Read in June, 2008
The Nac Mac Feegles hae got me tawkin' lae 'em. Crivens! It's a wee bittie story o' hags right enough, the big wee hag o' the hills bein' the verra center o' it all, but it may gi' ye a bad case o' the thinkin'.
I dinna like tae stop readin'.
(To the the Bigjobs: Discworld just keeps getting better and better. Keep a sharp eye out and you will see many references to other stories hidden in the telling.)
I dinna like tae stop readin'.
(To the the Bigjobs: Discworld just keeps getting better and better. Keep a sharp eye out and you will see many references to other stories hidden in the telling.)
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Read in April, 2009
Tiffany Aching is ably assisted by the Wee Free Men and Granny Weatherwax in this solid Discworld novel.
This book is a sequel to The Wee Free Men. I read The Wee Free Men years ago and really don't remember much at all... While it is possible to read A Hat Full of Sky A Discworld Novel without reading its prequel, I felt I missed small amounts of the story by not remembering the backstory.
I suppose the things I miss from the adult Discworld novels are a wider range of...more
This book is a sequel to The Wee Free Men. I read The Wee Free Men years ago and really don't remember much at all... While it is possible to read A Hat Full of Sky A Discworld Novel without reading its prequel, I felt I missed small amounts of the story by not remembering the backstory.
I suppose the things I miss from the adult Discworld novels are a wider range of...more
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Read in February, 2007
This is my favorite of Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books, and you don't need to have read "The Wee Free Men," or any Pratchett (I hadn't at the time), to enjoy it.
He does a great job treading the line between magic and the real world, making this seem *this* close to believable. Plus, you gotta love a bunch of drunk violent blue fairies.
He does a great job treading the line between magic and the real world, making this seem *this* close to believable. Plus, you gotta love a bunch of drunk violent blue fairies.
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Read in October, 2007
I think I love Pratchett's young adult stuff even better than his adult stuff. Tiffany Aching is an awesome main character, one of my favorites ever. And these books also feature Granny Weatherwax, who IS my favorite character ever. Magical and practical and poetic and funny all at once, this is a v. easy read.
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Terry Pratchett is, as ever, a genius with words, but this book doesn't quite live up to its predecessor, The Wee Free Men. The plot lacked cohesion, and I don't think it ever found its center. There seemed to be a lot of hurried exposition so that loose ends could be wrapped up, and the grand solution seemed to come out of nowhere. What I appreciated most about The Wee Free Men was the through line--all the parts of the story fit together and related to one another with an end goal in mind. ...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
Any Pratchett fan
I listened to this book on my morning commute to Borders on audio book. Does an audio book count as "reading"? There were some phrases, blurbs, and sections that packed so much punch that I had to buy the book in order to underline the passages I heard read to me.
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Read in August, 2005
i have never really “gotten” terry pratchett. i’ve had people rave about how funny he is and compare him to douglas adams, but whenever i tried to read his books…i just couldn’t get into them. i think i’ve discovered the secret. audiobooks. terry pratchett is much funnier when he’s heard rather than read. for one thing, this book (a sequel to the wee free men) contains these little blue guys that speak in a very heavy scottish dialect that pratchett painstakingly spells out for the...more
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no one, random find.
recommends it for: everyone.
recommends it for: everyone.
Note: This is the same review I gave "Wee Free Men" and "Wintersmith". It applies to all three books.
This fits into the same genre at the Harry Potter books, meaning it’s classified as more of a youthful reader type book, but it’s a brilliant read for all ages. It’s about witches and fairies, but not in the traditional sense. It’s a Terry Pratchett novel, so traditional is not one of his fortes. But clever, witty, and entertaining are, and this book is fil...more
This fits into the same genre at the Harry Potter books, meaning it’s classified as more of a youthful reader type book, but it’s a brilliant read for all ages. It’s about witches and fairies, but not in the traditional sense. It’s a Terry Pratchett novel, so traditional is not one of his fortes. But clever, witty, and entertaining are, and this book is fil...more
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Read in January, 2008
This was my first Terry Pratchett book. Most of my friends are very much in love with the man so I decided to finally give one of his books a try. I am not sorry I did, although the style is very different from what I usually read.
Pratchett writes with a wry humor and a heavy authorial voice that at first is a little hard to get used to. All to soon, however, the charm of that style wraps around you and the voice is as familiar as a friend telling you a good story at the end of a lo...more
Pratchett writes with a wry humor and a heavy authorial voice that at first is a little hard to get used to. All to soon, however, the charm of that style wraps around you and the voice is as familiar as a friend telling you a good story at the end of a lo...more
Read in June, 2009
This book was hilarious! The narrator, Stephen Briggs, does excellent voices for all the witches, as he also did for "The Wintersmith." I am reading this series in reverse order, but not on purpose. But that's okay because I haven't missed out on the current story for not having read the previous ones. It's just like learning more history about Tiffany, our little protagonist, and how she became to be the strong confident person she is. On several occasions the little Wee Free Men...more
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Read in April, 2007
Again with the YA novels. I read this without any knowledge of Pratchett’s Discworld series, and without knowing that it was intended for a YA audience. But neither of those things got in the way of my enjoyment of this book. It’s really fun, creative, and humorous. The characters are so imaginative (a witch with two bodies, an anti-poltergeist who tidies up instead of creating a mess, the most powerful witch in the land who sleeps with a card in her pocket instructing people, “I ain’t d...more
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Read in June, 2009
This book isn't what I expected. I picked it up at the Scholastic book sale because the cover assured me it was hilariously funny. Truth: it is funny. It's well-written and amusing. But it's much farther into the fantasy genre than I usually go. Still, despite my deep fundamental differences with the author's existential perception, I enjoyed the book. Enough, at least, to read another Tiffany Aching adventure (which I picked up at the same sale). It's odd, though, because it's clearly a...more
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Read in December, 2008
Once upon a time, Terry Pratchett was hilarious. These days, he's more occassionally amusing, often philosophical, and frequently obscure. He's an okay read, but I used to look to him for humor -you know, the kind where you are sitting/standing somewhere reading to pass the time, and suddenly you start laughing, and the people around you wonder what can be so funny in that book.
Sigh. Those days seem to be gone for good.
Sigh. Those days seem to be gone for good.
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Read in March, 2009
You know who I love? Tiffany Aching, that's who. This is another comfort book re-read. If you know any girls, maybe a bit precocious, between the ages of 8-12, buy them the Tiffany books. I can't wait for my nieces to get old enough. And actually, boys might like the books too since they feature a race of fightin' kickin' Pictsies called the Nac Mac Feegle, who I can imagine leading the dream life of most young boys.
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Read in January, 2009
This second book in the Tiffany Aching series is as much fun as the first so if you read this one first it will be equally as good as the first one was to me (since I read that one first). Terry Pratchett manages to pack a lot of important lessons into an exciting and familiar adventure called life while spicing it up just right to make it a story.
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Read in June, 2009
I enjoyed this book a very much. It is typically fun Pratchett with great characters and nice simple but fun plotting.
I was very much taken in by the cleanly laid out "theories on hagg'ing" that are discussed in the book. Very good thoughts on how to live a better life without being preachy or turning the story into an overbearing morality story.
I am finding that I am liking the Tiffany Aching series more than the Death series of the Discworld books.
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I was very much taken in by the cleanly laid out "theories on hagg'ing" that are discussed in the book. Very good thoughts on how to live a better life without being preachy or turning the story into an overbearing morality story.
I am finding that I am liking the Tiffany Aching series more than the Death series of the Discworld books.
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Read in December, 2008
recommends it for:
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Pratchett has this way of disarming you with humor, and then sucker punching you with a deep thought while you're not looking. A hat full of sky is no exception to this. It's very well written, and it works on many levels.
Additionally, there are one or two scenes that were described so well that I could see them in my head with the kind of technicolor precision that would make Speilberg envious.
Additionally, there are one or two scenes that were described so well that I could see them in my head with the kind of technicolor precision that would make Speilberg envious.
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Read in April, 2009
George Lucas is supposed to have said at some point that the storyteller who could get inside the head of an eleven-year-old girl could make a fortune. Well, never having been an eleven-year-old girl (but having a daughter who is that age now), I'd say Terry Pratchett has managed remarkably well here—and the fortune is all the readers'.
This second installment in the Tiffany Aching series follows the protagonist through a wonderful adventure as she looks at what being a witch—hagg...more
This second installment in the Tiffany Aching series follows the protagonist through a wonderful adventure as she looks at what being a witch—hagg...more
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"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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