false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242453726m/6341533.jpg 6250169 5 Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork — not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of a Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who no one knows much about. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football. 6432996 book 6 10 2009 Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37) total:383|5:117|4:172|3:79|2:14|1:1| 383 1539 798 127 5 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:20:13 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:26:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 15:13:14 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 15:26:26 -0800 2009
Unfortunately, ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 15:38:42 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 14:00:12 -0800 2009 Unseen Academicals juggles multiple themes while ostensibly talking about sport - and though sport and a few idea get short shrift as a result, the mixture is nevertheless entertaining. Although many social elements are ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 08:44:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 08:53:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 31 20:12:02 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 20:22:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 13:01:09 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 13:38:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 12:47:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 13:03:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:17:36 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:17:56 -0700 2009
Football (Soccer to us Americans). Romeo and Juliet (with a dash of Cyrano de Bergerac). Secret pasts of characters. Cooking.

Such is the Matter of Unseen Academicals, the latest Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett. Centering on Unse...more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 11:47:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:27:32 -0700 2009
As though bits of other books had been mixed up and a bit added here and there to make this new discworld book.

Spoilers from here on:

There are the fat-down-to-earth-smart woman, and her th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:21:18 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:52:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 13:00:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 13:00:14 -0700 2009 For the cheeseboard!

Thanks to the "unfortunate" requirements of the trust that supports the university the senior wizards and staff of Unseen University find themselves in a precarious position when they discover that they are required to participate in a game of football at leas...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 14:53:08 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 15:01:21 -0700 2009
It's a bit like [ Moving Pictures] or [ Soul Music] in that a phenomenon is sweepin...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 16 22:56:47 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 23:04:51 -0700 2009 But when he gets sidetracked this novel severely dips in quality. The more meta-physical aspects of the book are strained vergining on clunky. One character's self-discovery arc is ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 14:22:17 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 14:39:07 -0700 2009
We're back on Discworld with Pratchett's newest, and back to a favorite Pratchett plot: Discworlders invent som...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:20:19 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:45:47 -0700 2009
This is a wonderful read. This is especially so if you have an understanding of the madness that is being a football (soccer)fan. For the uniniti...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:43:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:44:34 -0800 2009
Okay, I have to admit that Glenda is, as Pratchett is wont to do, a rehash of another of his f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 12:12:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 01:45:56 -0700 2009
On the other hand, it's Pratchett, which is never a bad thing! And this is a great return to previous form, with ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 07:25:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 07:33:51 -0700 2009
As a long-standing Discworld fan, it's nice to see old characters come back, developed somewhat and certainly evolving. Pratchett being Pratchett he couldn't just leave the status quo as is, so this time we're seeing more of the Ankh-Morpork mob ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Oct 10 08:19:37 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 13:09:14 -0700 2009 Harry Potter, commentary on religion, and a designer named Pepe?

Unseen Academicals.

Most readers consider t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 20:03:09 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:37:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6341533