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"Catch-22" has become a common expression for any unescapable situation. Its most common formulation is this: If you are crazy, you are exempt from flying war missions. But if you ask not to fly war missions you cannot be possibly crazy.

Funny how so small a sentence is the only thing many p ... (continue)

It's been quite hard to rate this one.
In the beginning I must admit I wasn't impressed at all. I also was somewhat disturbed by the feeling that the author was trying too hard to be poetical.

From the middle of the book onwards, though, it started to get better and better. The ending (I ... (continue)

Some pretty amazing illustrations and a couple of nice insights from PTerry himself about the creation of the Discworld's places and characters.

Tutto è cominciato da qui. Un libro esplosivo, con un umorismo che ha scardinato all'istante tutte le convenzioni del fantasy e molte della letteratura in generale. Veramente una ventata di aria fresca.

It's a Pratchett... I just had to have it :D

As thick as an essay, as smooth as a novel. When I started the daunting task of reading this massive book, I would have never imagined how easy it would have proven to be.

Hofstadter manages to talk about a wide array of complicated subjects while keeping a continuous narrative flow: an invite ... (continue)

It doesn't live up to Going Postal, but it's quite good.
The fact that I raced over the last 120 pages and finished them at 4 in the morning, after 2 hours of reading, speaks for itself.

Nice and fun, but I expected more humour (or more spying, for that matter).
If I had been in the army, I'm sure I'd have liked it a whole lot more.

A very good book. Refreshing, in a sense.
After more than 20 Discworld books, I have to admit stories with the usual cast of characters start to wear thin. That's why a change is very welcome.
Mind you: it's always the Discworld, and it's always Pratchett. This is both good and bad at the ... (continue)

Good as usual, but it missed a certain something.
Maybe it's just that the novelty's starting to run off, being this the 25th Discworld book...

Good story - albeit a little short - and amazing illustrations.

An excellent piece of science fiction, with an eerie prophetic quality. The plot is built with such craftsmanship as to make plausible even the most strange theories: perfect suspension of disbelief.
The only particular I regret is not having read this book in 1992, when it first came out: it w ... (continue)

Very very good. Nice balance of humor, characters, references and plot.
Granny Weatherwax's books grow better and better.

This book could be taken as a very good example of british humour, and it could also offer an invaluable amount of historical data to any literature scholar or english linguist.
Unfortunately, I'm neither.
I have the feeling I could have liked this book a great deal more if english had bee ... (continue)

Maybe it's just me (and the fact that I missed most of the Australian references), but it didn't seem one of the best discworld books.

1984 is not a prophecy (I do believe and hope) but a representation of what hunger for power and lies can do when brought to their extremes.
Orwell's dystopia is fascinating because most of it is a picture - though an impossibly excessive one - of what world and politics really are.

This graphic novel is from 1986 and it seems like it was written and drawn just yesterday... I definitely can understand why Miller set a mark in Batman's and comics' history.

Definitely one of the best novels of The Watch. I bet Pratchett had his fun when working on the characters of Vimes and the Patrician, and it really shows.

Books starring Death are always good. It's amazing how often the presence of a character who is by no means human will focus the book on humanity: what it is, how it behaves, what it believes in... and why it actually has to believe in something.
And - of course - it's as funny as a Prat ... (continue)

A very good novel, from two exceptional writers. As far as writing style is concerned, it is very difficult to tell Pratchett and Gaiman apart: this means the book looks like it was written by a single author with double the ideas ;)
Definitely worth reading, even if you don't know much about P ... (continue)

Extremely funny and imaginative, very English in its humour and definitely a quotes mine.
The only disappointing characteristic is the almost complete lack of a structured plot.

Oh, and of course: forty-two :D

The first two thirds of the book are basically useless: the real treat comes with the last chapters, where finally some real action takes place and loose ends meet.
Not the best book of the series, all in all, but definitely worth reading (and of course absolutely mandatory for those who read t ... (continue)

I libri di Rincewind sono quelli che forse riescono a tirare fuori di più l'umorismo nero, cinico e sarcastico di Pratchett. Li adoro :D