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Wintersmith (Discworld #35)

by Terry Pratchett

4.13 · rating details · 9,751 ratings · 517 reviews

When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. Because if Tiffany doesn't make it to Spring--

--Spring won't come.

Mass Market Paperbound, 446 pages

Published October 1st 2007 by Harper Teen (first published 2006)

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May 25, 2007

Res rated it

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The third book involving Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegles -- the one where Tiffany dances with the Wintersmith and gets herself into the middle of the ancient romance of summer and winter.

I love the witches, and I love the Feegles, and I love Tiffany, and it's always a pleasure to spend time with them. And yay for Roland growing up. And I loved the subplot involving Miss Treason and the slight improvement in Annagramma.

Having said that, I had serious problems with t...more

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Feb 02, 2009

Marian rated it

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Very amusing read with our 13 yr old junior witch heroine. Funny cast of other witches, small blue guys and elementals-

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Nov 15, 2010

Maurizio Codogno rated it

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Shelves: humour, fantasy, finished

Tiffany Aching cresce, e compie tredici anni. Da buona preadolescente, si mette immediatamente nei casini, facendo in modo che l'Inverno si innamori di lei, scambiandola per l'Estate. In questo libro a metà tra il Discworld per ragazzi e quello standard, la storia parte piuttosto lentamente, e la prima metà del libro non è nulla di eccezionale. Fortunatamente nella seconda parte ingrana molto bene, e Pratchett, oltre che fare vedere come al solito il mondo in maniera diversa da quella a cui siam...more

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Jan 19, 2009

Linda rated it

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Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

Wintersmith is the third tale in the story of Tiffany Aching who found, at the age of 9, that she had inherited her grandmother’s legacy as a witch. Tiffany is now almost 13 and it is time for her to learn how to use her special abilities in the world as she finds herself in the house of Miss Treason who will guide her in her lessons. Oh, waily, waily, waily! Tiffany has attracted the attention of the spirit of winter himself and soon finds her likeness being etched in everything from the frost...more

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Dec 26, 2008

Peter rated it

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Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett

Doubleday
ISBN 978-0-385-60984-5

Tiffany Aching is almost thirteen, she live on Disc World, and is a trainee witch. Tiffany has voices in her head that help her, and us, see what is really going on. She is also frequently surrounded by very small blue men, they are called the Nac Mac Feegles. They have a duty of care over Tiffany, although they would not necessarily express it like that, so when ever she's in trouble they are watching o...moreWintersmith
Terry Pratchett

Doubleday
ISBN 978-0-385-60984-5

Tiffany Aching is almost thirteen, she live on Disc World, and is a trainee witch. Tiffany has voices in her head that help her, and us, see what is really going on. She is also frequently surrounded by very small blue men, they are called the Nac Mac Feegles. They have a duty of care over Tiffany, although they would not necessarily express it like that, so when ever she's in trouble they are watching over her and do their best to help. The Nac Mac Feegles have no fear, except of women, especially angry women, and of course witches. Otherwise they are always up for a fight. They provide the lighter moments in the book, and prevent us from taking the story too seriously. Tiffany is the typical precocious child, and will not do as she's told. She's not bad, quite the reverse, but her sense of independence gets her into trouble. She's looked after by an older witch, who is supposed to be training her. She's taken to see the dance where summer and winter swap as the dominant elemental for the new season. The dance is the Black Morris. -She joins in – always a bad idea, and gets mistaken for the Summer Lady. That's when the trouble starts, the wintersmith falls in love with her, and all sorts of dangerous things begin to happen.

Its Mistress Weatherwax (the hag 'o' hags as the Nac Mac Feegles call her) who's really looking after Tiffany and training her and testing her. She is one of the original characters in Disc World, and appears in many of the books. Here we see a softer side of her, but only just.

Using elements from various mythological stories, new ideas and twists, and of course the setting of disc world itself we have another brilliant story from Terry Pratchett. If you've read any of the Disc World stories, you'll already know what a good story teller Pratchett is. The characters are developed nicely from the previous book in the series, and you have a feeling there is more to come. Which we certainly hope there is.(less)

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Nov 11, 2011

Shovelmonkey1 rated it

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Shelves: brain-fluff, fantasy-fantastic

I read this a long time ago, but not as long ago as I read all the preceding Pratchetts. Yes. I love all things Pratchett (mostly) and have accumulated an extensive Pratchett archive since about the age of thirteen. Sadly most of these books have been tucked away in my parents attic for the last twelve years but the wonder of encountering the Discworld has never been forgotten.

I've read all of the Tiffany Aching series, including the Wee Free Men. Thinking back now, I can't really r...more

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Nov 07, 2011

Sara rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, discworld, ya

A perfect autumnal read to get you ready for the winter ahead and make the current weather seem so much warmer.

Confession time: there are several Discworld books that I haven't bothered to read because I didn't think they would interest me. Having now read one of them, because it was given to me for free, I can't imagine why I thought I wouldn't enjoy them. Perhaps it is because they are billed as for young adults and I found The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents to be amusing...more

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Aug 25, 2011

David Hebblethwaite rated it

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My experience of the later Discworld novels has tended to be that they’re OK, but don’t match up to the best of the series – not in terms of their humour, conception, or the incisiveness with which they treat their themes. Wintersmith continues that trend. This is Pratchett’s fourth YA Discworld novel, and the third to centre on young witch-in-training Tiffany Aching. Her predicament n the present book is that, having joined in on impulse with a traditional dance to usher in winter, Tiffany now ...moreMy experience of the later Discworld novels has tended to be that they’re OK, but don’t match up to the best of the series – not in terms of their humour, conception, or the incisiveness with which they treat their themes. Wintersmith continues that trend. This is Pratchett’s fourth YA Discworld novel, and the third to centre on young witch-in-training Tiffany Aching. Her predicament n the present book is that, having joined in on impulse with a traditional dance to usher in winter, Tiffany now finds herself the object of the winter elemental’s affections – and winter it will stay if she can’t find a way to get the rightful story back on track.

As the last part of that synopsis may suggest, one of Wintersmith’s main concerns – as so often with Discworld books – is how stories impinge on the way we perceive the world. Pratchett has a story literally affecting the lives and the world in the way that Tiffany has become caught up in the story of the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady; but the theme is also there in the way that, although witchcraft is shown to be more about things like observation than magic per se, it’s important for witches to cultivate an air of mystique, because that’s what the people need their witches to have.

Pratchett’s treatment of this is not uninteresting, but… it doesn’t have the spark of his best work. And the disparate elements of Wintersmith don’t seem to me to come together into a successful whole. The Nac Mac Feegle (the warrior-like fairy folk who have become Tiffany’s ‘protectors’ over the course of the series) feel rather awkwardly inserted into the story; and, despite being the main comic-cut characters, don’t raise much more than the odd smile. Indeed, most of the book doesn’t raise much more than the odd smile, which is a long way from the laugh-out-loud humour of earlier Pratchett works. So, Wintersmith: yes, it’s OK, but… but OK isn’t what made me fall in love with Terry Pratchett’s writing.(less)

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Jul 10, 2011

Lee Battersby rated it

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A competent entry into the Discworld annals without ever hitting the philosophical or humourous heights of the best Pratchett books. It's possible to see the seams in this one, and many moments seem simply rehashes of popular Pratchett tropes-- Horace the Cheese is no more than The Luggage, Roland is strongly reminiscent of Verence II and even Tiffany Aching herself sends out too many echoes of Magrat Garlick and Agnes Nitt to be particularly fresh. The plot is fairly standard innocent-sticks-he...more

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Jun 05, 2011

Kimberley Jones rated it

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Shelves: all-time-favorite, discworld, hilarious, english-review

A wonderful an lovely read, Pratchett like we love and like him.

Terry Pratchett is in my opinion one of the best authors ever. When I start to read a Terry Pratchett book I never now, if it is as good as the last one or even better, because they are all just amazing and awesome. And I've read more than two, so I know what I'm talking about :)
It is always unfair, when you compare another author to Terry Pratchett, because you know, even before you start the comparison, how it ...moreA wonderful an lovely read, Pratchett like we love and like him.

Terry Pratchett is in my opinion one of the best authors ever. When I start to read a Terry Pratchett book I never now, if it is as good as the last one or even better, because they are all just amazing and awesome. And I've read more than two, so I know what I'm talking about :)
It is always unfair, when you compare another author to Terry Pratchett, because you know, even before you start the comparison, how it is going to end. ;)
He has a way of writing, that is really special. He can make you laugh and giggle by every word you read and each of his characters gets more and more kinky with every page. But behind this funny facade there is a message ion every book. And the "Wintersmith" does not make an exception. Nothing is as it seems. (I mean what would a good witch be without a little Boffo?)You should always know what you're doing or at least try to think about it. But even if you do something without thinking about it, if you just listen to your heart (or your feet) something good can come out of it... or not.

It shows just like "Witches Abroad" how important stories for us humans and our world are.
The "Wintersmith" has a love triangle that is... let us call it interesting, special and unique. But that is what we all love about Terry Pratchett, his uniqueness.
The concept of Horace, the cheese, reminds a little bit of the box on feet just without the eating-people-part (except for that one time when Horace tried to eat Rob, though Daft Wulli said Horace didn't mean it. I mean we know, box meant it EVERY time (: )and without the wood. But that is the only thing that seems a little bit "old". If you read the "Wintersmith" and it is the first Pratchett book you read, you will understand it fully and without any problems. And you will love it :)
And if you read many other Pratchett books as well, you will love to see so many old friends again. Like the most interesting witches, the wee free men (who are just so funny and cute, but I could understand if they annoy Tiffany, our lovely Protagonist), and even Death, who is in my opinion as great as ever, no matter how small his parts are. And many, many wonderful new characters as well like the goddess Anoia whose Job it is to find things that rolled under pieces of furniture.

All in all, I would read every book with Granny Weatherwax in it and I would recommend it to everyone :)(less)

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Feb 15, 2011

Micki added it · review of another edition

This was a very interesting book. I got hooked while reading it, but I didn't think a great deal of it after I finished. Pratchett did a good job developing the plot, but it was a little "out there" for me. There were too many creatures introduced. It was hard to keep them separate. There were humans, witches, gods, godesses, elementals, ogres, and feegles. Feegle were little blue guys that had an Irish accent and helped the main character. There were so many names that it was hard to ...more

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Oct 28, 2010

Chibineko rated it

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I always try to space out my Terry Pratchett books now that I'm finally catching up to the latest books, so when I saw that the newest Tiffany book would be coming out, I decided it was time. Needless to say, this book once again reaffirmed my love for Pratchett.

Since there's so many reviews out there already, I'm going to skip the description paragraph. If you're a Terry Pratchett & Tiffany Aching fan, you'll know what this book is about. If you aren't aware of either, I really do s...more

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Jul 09, 2010

Sassy_latham rated it

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This book is once again a brilliant book. It picks up from the hat full of sky.

Tiffany is starting to gain powers and has once again been asigned to a different witch. This witch gives her a chance to watch the dance. Little does tiffany know that there are more perticipants than she can see already dancing. Tiffany sees a place in the dance where the joker is supposed to be. The place is "empty". Joining in the dance, ignoring her witches warnin, she follows her feet and t...more

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May 09, 2010

Laurie rated it

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‘Wintersmith’ is the third book about Tiffany Aching, a young witch in training on Discworld. Now 13, she faces an elemental force. Tiffany joined in dancing in the Black Morris dance on the autumn equinox, and for one brief instant, danced with winter. Winter has taken a shine to her, and has come courting. If she doesn’t get the Wintersmith to stop courting her, summer will never come, and the world will freeze to death. She doesn’t have to face him alone, however. She has the aid of several o...more

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Jan 02, 2012

Pikachu rated it

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Shelves: 2006s, series-bk-35, _why-yes-i-ya, _lets-play-pretend, _witches, _reviewed

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Terry Pratchett…but his new works just can't hold a candle to the older ones. I suspect that this is because his older books are focused on world building and catching the audience's attention, while the latter books rely more on inside-joke-based slapstick. This trend carries over to the Tiffany Aching miniseries. Tiffany is a young witch with a lot of promise, who is watched over by Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax. Currently, she is serving under a very eccentric wom...more

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Oct 29, 2009

Moira rated it

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I'm trying to write reviews again, instead of just ratings and status updates -- my problem is I always want to write The Exhaustive Review, and so wind up writing none. UH WHOOPS. I figure I'll start small with this book.

I had real difficulty getting into the story -- I didn't like the tone of the combined narrative voice/Tiffany's thoughts very much (it felt sort of simultaneously dumbed-down and punched-up for the YA market, and I missed the usual sarcastic undercutting tone of th...moreI'm trying to write reviews again, instead of just ratings and status updates -- my problem is I always want to write The Exhaustive Review, and so wind up writing none. UH WHOOPS. I figure I'll start small with this book.

I had real difficulty getting into the story -- I didn't like the tone of the combined narrative voice/Tiffany's thoughts very much (it felt sort of simultaneously dumbed-down and punched-up for the YA market, and I missed the usual sarcastic undercutting tone of the footnotes). Perhaps because this is the third book of a trilogy? and I hadn't read the first or second books (I know, I know. But the first Discworld book I read was Night Watch! and I didn't really read a lot of the rest in sequence. I think this is one of the few series where that actually works). I....really didn't like Tiffany as a character that much. I liked her interactions with Nanny and Granny, altho Nanny seemed terribly PG and Granny a lot more manipulative than usual....well, no, Granny's very manipulative, something about it just left a bad taste in my mouth here (and possibly it was supposed to). I did like the points made in other good reviews, that the Tiffany books are largely about responsibility, that Granny tests Tiffany possibly as a successor, and there are many and varied older female characters. A lot of the writing at sentence-level style is very good, there are striking and lovely images that turn into almost extended meditations on the book's themes, and I loved Miss Treason and You and Roland. But the book didn't really click for me enjoyably until about the last thirty or forty pages. (My very favourite part was Roland and the Feegles in the Underworld, especially when they started singing 'row row row your boat....') Perhaps part of the problem for me is that Wintersmith and Summer were, by definition, rather empty elemental archetypes. There are many charming and hilarious bits, but for some reason it just didn't all jell into a whole for me, and I never warmed* to it.

Also, altho this is possibly very superficial, it bothered me that it was divided into chapters -- I got used to Discworld books just sucking me away into the world of the story and not spitting me back out til the tale was done, and altho Pratchett used narrative convention very skilfully (after umpty-ump very good books, he'd better), it just jarred on me constantly.

Also also, I am the girl with a splinter of ice** in her heart, because I am apparently the one person on the planet who found Horace tiresome rather than amusing.

*Yes, I did that on purpose.

**Yes, I also did that on purpose.(less)

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Jun 09, 2009

Jen Petras rated it

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Nov 23, 2010

MisterFweem rated it

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Any book featuring the Nac Mac Feegle is a win in my world.

But this, perhaps, is the bit I enjoy most from the book, and that's some of the hooptedoodle that Pratchett includes that's really not pertinent to the story, but oh-so-pertinent to developing his characters, which is a trait I admire in him:

Marjory J. Boddice had got some things laughably wrong. Girls on the Chalk didn't often run away from a young man who was rich enough to own his own horse -- or not for long and ...more

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Jan 14, 2011

Qing rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

Brief premise: Tiffany Aching danced with the Wintersmith during the Dark Morris dance... now he's fascinated by her and wants to marry her.^^^^Summer is not pleased (and she sounds quite spiteful).^^^^Good thing then that the Nac Mac Feegles are there to help her out =D Crivens!!!! .. Oh... and Roland, the boy she saved from the Queen of the Fairies back in the second book, A Hat Full of Sky ^____________________^^^^^Not only does Tiffany have to deal with the attentions of the Wintersmith, Ann...more

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Mar 27, 2011

Myles rated it

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, humor

Oh waily, waily, waily!

This will be the last Terry Pratchett I read in a while, at least until I Shall Wear Midnight comes out in paperback this fall and Snuff gets published. Discworld is an incredible amount of fun and Pratchett has once again blurred the lines between his regular novels and those featuring the adventures of an increasingly grown-up Tiffany Aching. Wintersmith does not disappoint.

Pratchett perhaps took a cue from J.K. Rowling by ramping up the com...more

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Mar 05, 2011

Lydia rated it

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Wintersmith is a well written fantasy by a well known science fiction/fantasy writer, Terry Prachett. I had never read one of Pratchett's books before and was surprised to find this in the YA section. I had mistakenly considered him an adult novel writer. It was interesting to find his first story was published when he was 13, and his first book just ten years later.

This is the third in a series (I hope to read the first two) about Tiffany Aching, a witch-in-training who has more abi...more

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Dec 22, 2010

Thea rated it

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This is a very engaging story of an adolescent girl coming into her powers. Nevermind that her powers are literally, her ability with witchcraft, this is a perfect coming of age tale for a girl. Tiffany is completely believable as a socially awkward, somewhat "country" pre-teen fending off the advances of a young (?!) man completely unsuited for her while denying her affection for another young man and defending herself from the jealousy of the unseated lady love of the unsuitable bo...more

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Jan 23, 2011

Rabenfrau rated it

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Tiffany Weh, fast dreizehn, ist eine Junghexe in Ausbildung und Schülerin von Fräulein Verrat. Soweit scheint alles recht gut zu laufen, doch dann kann Tiffany beim Dunklen Morriskentanz ihre Füße nicht in Zaum halten und gerät mitten unter die Tänzer, an einen Platz, der eigentlich gar nicht für sie bestimmt ist. Und zieht so die Aufmerksamkeit des Winterschmieds auf sich.

Eigentlich sind ja Rosen aus Eis und Schneeflocken in Tiffany-Gestalt an sich schmeichelhaft…aber Eisberge mit der...moreTiffany Weh, fast dreizehn, ist eine Junghexe in Ausbildung und Schülerin von Fräulein Verrat. Soweit scheint alles recht gut zu laufen, doch dann kann Tiffany beim Dunklen Morriskentanz ihre Füße nicht in Zaum halten und gerät mitten unter die Tänzer, an einen Platz, der eigentlich gar nicht für sie bestimmt ist. Und zieht so die Aufmerksamkeit des Winterschmieds auf sich.

Eigentlich sind ja Rosen aus Eis und Schneeflocken in Tiffany-Gestalt an sich schmeichelhaft…aber Eisberge mit der eigenen Gestalt, die über den Ozean gleiten und Schiffe versenken, sind dann doch eher erschreckend. Und dann ist da auch noch der ewige Winter, der allem Lebenden droht, seitdem die Sommerfrau verschwunden ist. Deren Kräfte gehen langsam aber sicher auf Tiffany über – ein Mädchen, dass im Gegensatz zur Sommerfrau überaus erreichbar ist für den Winterschmied, der alles daran setzt, sie zu sich zu holen…

Mit „Der Winterschmied“ lieferte Terry Pratchett das nun inzwischen dritte „Märchen von der Scheibenwelt“ mit Tiffany Weh in der Hauptrolle.

Ein typischer Scheibenwelt-Roman. Gekonnt spielt Pratchett mit bekannten Mythen und Geschichten rund um Orpheus, Eurydike, und der alten heidnischen Götter. Denn so funktioniert eben die Scheibenwelt, die alten Riten müssen geschehen. Ohne den Schneevater geht die Sonne nicht auf (Anspielung auf „Schweinsgalopp„), oder es können sich Winter und Sommer nicht abwechseln.

So arbeiten auch die Hexen der Scheibenwelt. Sie erschaffen Mythen von und über sich, und verzichten auf Magie, denn diese löst keine Probleme. Und schließlich geht es hier ja um Hexen, und nicht um Zauberer.

Als Leser begleiten wir Tiffany zum einen etwas in ihrer Ausbildung als Hexe, und dem Konflikt zwischen alter, traditioneller Hexerei und die modernen Magie-Variante. Dieser Handlungsstrang nimmt neben der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Winterschmied einen großen Teil des Buches ein.

Und natürlich trifft man auch hier wieder auf alte Bekannte: Oma Wetterwachs, Nanny Ogg, Roland und auch mein persönlicher Lieblingscharakter, der TOD, hat einen Auftritt.

Stilistisch ist „Der Winterschmied“ ein typischer Pratchett, mit Wortwitz und diversen Fußnoten, auch wenn dieses Werk keinesfalls einer der besten Scheibenwelt-Romane ist. Denn prinzipiell liefert Pratchett hier nicht allzu viel Neues, und einige Erläuterung können gerade den Lesern auf die Nerven gehen, die schon ein paar Scheibenwelt-Geschichten gelesen haben.

Trotz allem ist „Der Winterschmied“ kein schlechtes Buch. Mir persönlich hat es trotz allem gefallen, voller Witz, Spannung und Mythen, eben wie man es kennt und mag. Allerdings muss ich immer wieder feststellen, dass Pratchett’s Stil nicht jedermanns Sache ist. Aber wer ihn und die Scheibenwelt mag, der sollte sich dieses Buch nicht entgehen lassen.(less)

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Jun 25, 2011

Spuddie rated it

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#3 in the Tiffany Aching sub-series of the Discworld fantasy novels, in which Tiffany, a witch-in-training, attends the Black Morris dance (signaling the beginning of winter) and accidentally dances with the Wintersmith who subsequently thinks she is the Summer Lady and sets out to make himself human so he can woo her. Tiffany, meanwhile, also has to deal with her current tutor, Miss Treason, dying and having her sort-of friend and fellow train...more

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Feb 24, 2010

Sarai rated it

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Tiffany Aching is a young woman learning how to be a witch. Without realizing what she is doing, she jumps in the middle of a traditional dance between Winter and Summer - and changes the way the story is supposed to go. The Wintersmith becomes fascinated with her and begins making snowflakes in her image, creating ice roses, and launching Tiffany-shaped icebergs into the oceans. Summer, for her part, is slightly miffed at this girl who seems to believe she can just take the place of a god. The ...more

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Feb 18, 2011

Sherri rated it

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Tiffany is an apprentice again, this time to Miss Treason, the oldest witch on Discworld. How old? She refers to Granny as "the girl Weatherwax."

She watches a strange dance in the woods and her feet begin to move. Before she realizes it she jumps into the dance and causes a schism the likes she has never known. Winter and Summer are separated. And Winter takes a personal interest in Tiffany. Or as "personal" as an element can manage, which produces Tiffany shaped s...more

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Apr 29, 2010

Cara rated it

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Terry Pratchett scores again! This time Tiffany gets herself entangled between the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady and has to set things right to save the world from freezing in a perpetual winter. I really enjoyed most of this book: great characters, the twists and jokes are hilarious as always, the Feegles get up to their usual shenanigans, and I'm enjoying watching Tiffany grow up. Plus, this book features You, the adorable white kitten Tiffa...more

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Mar 08, 2010

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Aug 23, 2010

Isaac rated it

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Discworld in its later books has developed its own culture and style away from the simple parody of the early books. The evolution of the Lance Witches is a good example of this—they have become deeper and more diversified.

In this case, Tiffany Aching plays host to half a dozen continuity and mythology nods. Personally, I liked the book, but I'm not sure I can approve of the badass decay of Granny Weatherwax. Maybe it's supposed to be age or the coming of a new generation, but she...more

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Oct 10, 2011

Tocotin rated it

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I don't usually enjoy Discworld stories with witches that much (Granny Weatherwax is getting on my nerves with her infallibility), but in this one they kind of saved it. The plot about a hopeless love of an elemental for a 13-year-old human girl just wasn't terribly engaging. I'd have enjoyed it more if there were more of Annagramma and her troubles with the inherited cottage, or even of Mac Feegles. Tiffany Aching is a nice girl but she's not all that special, really. I liked all the other youn...more

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“It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.” — 78 people liked it

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.” — 75 people liked it

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