Lords and Ladies

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  Engaging and very funny.

  It may not have the overall most brilliant story among the Discworld novels, but it's a good one, and, what matters most, it's very well told, in both an engaging and very funny way.

  At moments I found myself literally bursting into a hearty laughter! Often due to very clever and subtle jokes. ... (continue)

  It may not have the overall most brilliant story among the Discworld novels, but it's a good one, and, what matters most, it's very well told, in both an engaging and very funny way.

  At moments I found myself literally bursting into a hearty laughter! Often due to very clever and subtle jokes.

  And where else you can have references to both A Midsummer's Night Dream and quantum physics, among the others? ;)

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  GozzoMan said on Jul 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  One of the most amazing things Terry Pratchett does with his Discworld series is to take the familiar and twist it ever so slightly, making us look at our world differently. That he can make us laugh, cry and wonder - often in one book - is just another reason for his enduring popularity.

  "Lo ... (continue)

  One of the most amazing things Terry Pratchett does with his Discworld series is to take the familiar and twist it ever so slightly, making us look at our world differently. That he can make us laugh, cry and wonder - often in one book - is just another reason for his enduring popularity.

  "Lords and Ladies" - another entry into the witches saga - takes on the subject of Faeries. Fairy tales are some of the most enduring and easily accessible narrative mechanisms available to modern writers. Their universal appeal and familiarity lend a solid base to any novel, a fact which has been utilized many times, but, with a master like Pratchett, is turned to startling effect. Terry Pratchett turns the accepted image of fairies and the Fae folk on its head - from benign and mischievous spirits, Pratchett twists these previously venerated ethereal beings into creatures of vanity - glamourous, but dangerous. You'll find no Galadriel, awful in her glorious goodness, no noble, Legolas.

  Like all good marchen, there's a lesson to be learned, but laughs and adventures along the way.

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  guaddess said on Sep 23, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  My memory was confused about this one, but on the second reading I loved it to bits.

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  Mag said on Dec 15, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  One of the best from Pratchet! Enjoy it :)

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  Aneliya said on Jan 20, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 386 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0552138916
• ISBN-13: 9780552138918
• Publisher: CORGI BOOKS (TWLD)
• Pub date: Mar 01, 1994
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español, Nederlandse Boeken, Česká kniha

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