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While I think you really need to be a football (as in soccer) fan to truly enjoy this, it's yet again another fine effort by Pratchett (all the more so given his illness).

All the usual in-jokes, references to the real world and slightly snarky cleverness we've come to expect, but not quite his finest.

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4.0

It took me a long time to get up the courage to read this book because I want to stretch out the wonder of each new Discworld book. The release of Snuff allowed me to read this book. *sorry, not much on the Tiffany Aching book*

While UA didn't contain the frequency of laugh out loud moments Terry has spoiled me to expect, still a wonderful read. Nutt and Glenda Sugarbean were fantastic characters. My favorite tyrant Vetinari is up to his usual tricks, outbluffing everyone although here he does something completely out of character and still manages to maintain his sharp wits.

Yes, another charmer from the splendid Sir Terry.

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Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Not my favourite discworld novel maybe because it didn’t have the same essence of discworld that the others have. This focuses on the Wizards having to play a football match but that’s not really the main plot of the story it’s really about an Orc. It definitely had some funny parts but it just didn’t hit the same as usual

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3.0

I've only read the first 3 books of the Discworld series so diving into #37 maybe wasn't the best idea. I had no clue what was going on with Ridcully and the former Dean, and Vetinari, but as I understand it, Mister Nutt, Trevor, Glenda, and Juliet were all brand new characters so I had no trouble following their story. And it was a rather enjoyable story. I also liked all the scenes where the wizards congregated. But a lot of the stuff with Vetinari flew over my head and I ended up skimming those parts. So, the football story was good, but I really had no clue about anything else.

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5.0

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