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Pros
Stop reading my crummy writing and go read the book yourself. Hogfather is one i have reread multiple times and can't get enough of. Reading at bedtime can result in an all-nighter.
Great buildup. The story underscores this all. Comedy doesn't dilute the plot in a negative way.
Favorite character is death and reading as he enacts delivering presents like father christmas is my favorite part. I really like that the book used death as a narrative to talk about how fair life is; as an omnipotent but naïve being, death's perspec... Read More
Terry pratchett weaves an inspiring and heart warming tale of holiday spirit and magical belief.
Susan is such a central character with a new vocation. Having susan back is just as good as another book about death (everyone's favorite discworld character) the final confrontation between susan, death's granddaughter, and the villain teatime is ano... Read More
Cons
I know that some of his stories, especially his newer works, tend to be gimmicky. But not here. This is really just a kind of cover or excuse glued on to a wretched excess.
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Quality
Its terry pratchett's hogfather adapted into a high quality, masterfully well done and fully casted audiobook!
And now they are released in beautiful god quality editions.
She knows something isn’t right and it has to do with the supernatural.
Don’t usually appear in the same sentence but this is a novel by sir terry pratchett so don’t be too surprised.
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Within very few pages i found myself laughing out loud pulling my head out of the book and wondering how on the disc he could cover so much ground so quickly
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These meddlesome figures have ordered the end of the hogfather and have the money to make this seemingly impossible task happen
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The point of view shifts continuously and all without the benefit of chapter breaks which is nothing new for a discworld book
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You get so many unique and distinct voices that it’s nearly impossible to get caught up in the chaos which the characters themselves are embroiled
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Something’s gone all too wrong
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Yet the author holds that line never managing to descend into pointless violence and depravity for its own purpose—whatever the motives of the characters
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She knows something isn’t right and it has to do with the supernatural
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She’s related to death himself and just wants to be left alone everyone has a relative of some sort that sometimes they’d rather not see but she won’t give in to isolationism when it gets right down to it