Lords and Ladies

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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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Non avendo più pazienza per attendere le traduzioni finalmente leggo il mio primo Pratchett in lingua originale e continuo il ciclo delle streghe con questa deliziosa reinterpretazione del sogno di una notte di mezza estate. Pratchett non si smentisce e diverte, reinventando le fate in maniera antit ... (continue)

  Non avendo più pazienza per attendere le traduzioni finalmente leggo il mio primo Pratchett in lingua originale e continuo il ciclo delle streghe con questa deliziosa reinterpretazione del sogno di una notte di mezza estate. Pratchett non si smentisce e diverte, reinventando le fate in maniera antitetica rispetto a come l'immaginario popolare le ha sempre rappresentate.
  Menzione speciale per Granny Wheatherwax, che si conferma tra i miei personaggi preferiti (a pari merito con Death e Lord Vetinari).

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  pao986 said on Sep 20, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 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 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 400 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0061056928
• ISBN-13: 9780061056925
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Pub date: Oct 01, 1996
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: 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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