Pratchett, Terry - The Wee Free Men
Wed, Aug. 29th, 2007 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterMy library doesn't have the next books in the Death series or the Witch series, which makes me sad!
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching one day finds there is a monster in her river. Then some small blue men with funny accents start stealing the sheep. Then her little brother disappears.
Tiffany decides that This Will Not Do and goes after her brother with a cast-iron frying pan, along with a whole lot of the Nac Mac Feegle (the eponymous Wee Free Men).
I wasn't going to like Tiffany at first, since she was entirely too capable, but I ended up liking her anyway. She hits things with frying pans!
Um. I was going to say something else, except I have gotten stuck on the frying pan bit. It reminds me of Patricia C. Wrede's Frying Pan of DOOM!
Also, the Nac Mac Feegle are hilarious!
Oh yeah. Anyway, there is a lot of stuff about Faerie (the scary version) and dreams, and I found the latter to be particularly confusing, because people would keep slipping in and out of dreams. I have a difficult enough time following straight-forward plots, much less plots that change every two pages.
Still, I liked this quite a bit, particularly Granny Aching, and I am glad I already have the next two in the series checked out.
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching one day finds there is a monster in her river. Then some small blue men with funny accents start stealing the sheep. Then her little brother disappears.
Tiffany decides that This Will Not Do and goes after her brother with a cast-iron frying pan, along with a whole lot of the Nac Mac Feegle (the eponymous Wee Free Men).
I wasn't going to like Tiffany at first, since she was entirely too capable, but I ended up liking her anyway. She hits things with frying pans!
Um. I was going to say something else, except I have gotten stuck on the frying pan bit. It reminds me of Patricia C. Wrede's Frying Pan of DOOM!
Also, the Nac Mac Feegle are hilarious!
Oh yeah. Anyway, there is a lot of stuff about Faerie (the scary version) and dreams, and I found the latter to be particularly confusing, because people would keep slipping in and out of dreams. I have a difficult enough time following straight-forward plots, much less plots that change every two pages.
Still, I liked this quite a bit, particularly Granny Aching, and I am glad I already have the next two in the series checked out.
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Thu, Aug. 30th, 2007 08:18 pm (UTC)Reaper Man, Equal Rites, Soul Music, Maskerade, Men at Arms and probably some more... I was checking out this reading guide: http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-1-5.pdf
I think you guys have several of the earlier books and several of the later books for the Death, Witches, and Guards series, but some of the books in the middle are missing.
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Thu, Aug. 30th, 2007 10:35 pm (UTC)Have you read 'Guards! Guards!' yet? Trust me, you'll be confused by any City Watch books you pick up until you do.
As for the Tiffany Aching series I think 'Hatful of Sky' comes out on top for me too. Even though I do come to love Roland (of all people!) in 'Wintersmith'.
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Fri, Aug. 31st, 2007 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Fri, Aug. 31st, 2007 10:39 pm (UTC)