Hogfather
Ratings278
Average rating4.2
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Ο Άι Βασίλης δολοφονείται κι ο θάνατος αποφασίζει να πάρει τη θέση του και να μοιράσει δώρα.
Τι πιο ταιριαστό να διαβάσει κανείς ανήμερα Χριστούγεννα;
Α, επίσης υπάρχει ο θεός Oh God του hangover, ο οποίος παθαίνει χανγκόβερ όποτε εμείς ξυπνάμε νηφάλιοι, και φωνάζει Oh God!
Αριστούργημα.
I really enjoyed this one. Some Discworld books move at such a fast pace that it's difficult to follow what is going on sometimes. This one was more focused and really entertaining. It got some audible chuckles from me - which is a difficult thing to accomplish! Just a pick-me-up that I needed in this long, dreary January.
Rating: 3.96 leaves out of 5-Characters: 3.75/5-Cover: 4/5-Story: 4/5-Writing: 3/5Genre: Fantasy, Scifi, Christmas-Fantasy: 5/5-Scifi: 3/5-Christmas: 5/5Type: EbookWorth?: YeahHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked LoveMy first ever Terry Pratchett book and can't say I am disappointed in it. I enjoyed the... wild trip it gave. I did like some of the characters, mostly Death, Death of Rat and Susan. There were some really loveable times that I enjoyed immensely. The only real problem I had with it all had to do with the writing. I will say I have a smidge of a headache from reading majority of the book in one sitting. That is also my fault for waiting until I only had one day left on my rental. Lol.
My seventh Discworld book and one of my favorites. I thought this one was excellent. I continue to be impressed by how Pratchett writes women.
The perfect Christmas read. I'm a simple woman, I see “TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.” and I hit the five star button. Happy hogswatch! :)
How to review this book? It's a bit of a challenge, as there are threads of story finely woven throughout to create a tapestry of a grand story in the end. Ah! That right there is the work of a master at work! Not to mention the idea that Death could fill in as the Discworld equivalent of Santa Claus and it is not at all morbid or weird. In fact, I rather enjoyed Pratchett's portrayal of Death in this fashion.
I like that for Pratchett there are no sacred cows and he illustrates so well how imagination and a belief in the impossible helps us to attain more than we could otherwise while helping us to maintain our sanity in the face of all we cannot control. (How's that for a run-on sentence?)
This month has been a challenging month in the real world, disrupting the normal flow of reading. As such, the effect of the plot based on certain details sometimes caused me to backup and reread some sections to refresh my memory so I understood what was going on. The plots come together in a fashion I didn't see coming that I think I will enjoy all the more on the next reading.
Standard Pratchett excellence, lovely lines like “Her shoes were so sensible they could fill out their own tax forms”.
The formatting of the ebook was a little clumsy.
Usually when the narrative switches from one part of the story to another inside a chapter, there is a graphical indicator like an ellipsis or extra white space.
But here it just jumped from one sentence to the next and I sometimes felt like I had missed something.
I borrowed this from my library using Hoopla so maybe they format stuff differently.
A comical and fun read for the holidays! It had me laugh-out-loud at times.
Great read for December, I'm putting this and the movie version on my holiday celebration must do list.
I had no idea Sir Terry could write like this! Dark, thoughtful, even frighteningly somber at times – yet still warm and touching. I picked this up a few days ago because I had a head cold and needed something light. This wasn't light, but it sure was what I needed. My respect and admiration for Pratchett, already high to begin with, is now even higher. He has such a sublime sense of what makes us human: the best, the worst, and the average.
When the sun rise, I fell into tears... But, hey, I'm Pagan and a Mystic, of course I would :-)
I love the quote “TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE”. Every now and then there are this kind of jewels in the books, and you get to these jewels through pages of enjoyable reading.
I love Terry Pratchett :-) My kind of spiritual reading... though I don't think Terry would appreciate my attitude LOL
This was a good Christmas fantasy book. I enjoyed the scenes with Death trying to do the right thing. I also liked the scenes with the wizards and their trying not to think of new gods and fairies.
I'm not sure what to make of this one. It's good in its way, but I find it rather too complicated and serious overall—although of course there are bits of humour scattered through it.
It has Death's granddaughter Susan in it, whom I always like; Death himself is in quite good form, and his attendant Albert.
But I'm not normally keen on Pratchett's villains, and here we have a whole bunch of them: the Auditors, Mr Teatime, and his hired gang. I really think the Discworld would be better without the Auditors; they're grey and rather dull, and do nothing for me.