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Feb 07, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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I aim to read everything Pratchett wrote and published Here’s a review of the Discworld novel I read last month. When I bought Nation, I buried it deep behind the other, more “fun” books by him. Didn’t think I’d like it as much and decided I’d try reading it some time before I died.

But a reading challenge made me take the book out and dust it off. I loved it from the very first line. It opens on an adolescent boy completing a ritual that lets him join the ranks of “men”. And when he returns to t ...more
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