Past the midpoint of my life, I finally started to read the Discworld books. Review #2 Wyrd Sisters audiobook in series Discworld The Tiffany Aching books remain my favorites, perhaps because they were my first, but probably because of the wee free men. Terry Pratchett was brilliant and the master of a fantasy sub-genre that probably belongs to him alone. I count myself lucky to still have so many novels of Discworld ahead of me. If a reader does not have sufficient maturity, much of the book will be wasted, because you wont get the jokes or understand the satire. These books do not contain any scenes, language, or images that would rate even a PG-13 rating at the movies. If you are someone who cannot smile at puns like martial lore or wizards were wazzards might not fully appreciate Discworld even though most of the cleverness is more sophisticated. Somehow, Terry Pratchett makes all the nonsense work.

Anytime the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up in a Discworld novel, it is seriously humorous. This book did not make me laugh out loud like Wee Free Men, but it was amusing. Like all of the Discworld books, the tone is satirical and clever. He views himself as fearful and not heroic: in other words, the perfect person to save the world. Rincewind is a wizard with little mastery of magic whose feels that his main talent is staying alive in the background of his surroundings. You can trust Terry Pratchett to not be too linear and to not be predictable. There are charts on the internet that will show you the groupings. It is best if you start from the beginning of a particular grouping and work your way through, otherwise you’ll miss a lot of inside jokes, references, etc. Each book focuses on one of them, although they cross over and pop up in each others’ books all the time. The Discworld novels fall into different categories: Tiffany Aching, Rincewind, the three witches, Sam Vines and the guards, and Death.

It is not long before everything in Ankh Morpork is bright and shiny and that is just the beginning of the disaster. His father mostly died when Coin was an infant, but he still would make most parents look good by comparison. Suddenly a boy wonder (Coin) arrives at the Unseen University. Its Ankh Morpork again and things are as wretched, dirty, disheveled and motheaten as usual.

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