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“’What do you call them things, there’s always a hundred of them in anything?”
Magrat looked bewildered. “Do you mean percents?”
The Wyrd Sisters can be summed up (and probably not greatly) as a parody of Macbeth with some references to Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and other fairytales and plays thrown in. Only, picture a Macbeth who not only imagines his hands covered in blood and wishes to be cleansed of it, but one who takes a cheese grater and some sandpaper to his palms to try to r ...more
Magrat looked bewildered. “Do you mean percents?”
The Wyrd Sisters can be summed up (and probably not greatly) as a parody of Macbeth with some references to Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and other fairytales and plays thrown in. Only, picture a Macbeth who not only imagines his hands covered in blood and wishes to be cleansed of it, but one who takes a cheese grater and some sandpaper to his palms to try to r ...more
Took me a while to get into.
This one took me a while to plug into. Probably due to the fact that I had a bunch of other stuff going on and was only to give it 10 minutes at a time. Pratchett's writing wants a closer, more sustained read than that. But anything with Granny Weatherwax is great. And Pratchett handles the "meet cute" better than most. 3 stars because the dialog was quite as snappy as previous works and because and Discworld book without The Luggage seems to be missing something. ...more
This one took me a while to plug into. Probably due to the fact that I had a bunch of other stuff going on and was only to give it 10 minutes at a time. Pratchett's writing wants a closer, more sustained read than that. But anything with Granny Weatherwax is great. And Pratchett handles the "meet cute" better than most. 3 stars because the dialog was quite as snappy as previous works and because and Discworld book without The Luggage seems to be missing something. ...more
Apr 11, 2016
Maggie Holmes
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First off, the witches are some of my favorite characters in Discworld. I've actually read them backwards. This is the 2nd witch book (after Equal Rites), and I think I've read all the others.
The best part of this book is following all the Shakespeare references and trying to figure out where Hwil is getting his "inspiration." ...more
The best part of this book is following all the Shakespeare references and trying to figure out where Hwil is getting his "inspiration." ...more
A lovely funny book in typical Pratchett style. I was reading it aloud to my daughter. We'd already seen the cartoon adaptation, though (which is not as good as the book) and other books beckoned.
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Pratchett is my go to author after a long semester. Funny, intelligent, breathtaking prose that really shows the genius of Terry Pratchett.
Sep 25, 2014
Samantha Dragon
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Nov 12, 2015
Amrutha Bharadwaj
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